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Engaging in battle without anger
Some opposing lawyers are so unpleasant that I advise my clients in advance about them, and explain that their expressed anger and irritation and intimidation tactics often are feigned or exaggerated, and, when not feigned, often result from the opponents’ fear, with a bunch of...
When court personnel and lawyers guffaw about scared criminal defendants
Because I believe in responding to distasteful speech with counterspeech, rather than with lawsuits, I do so here about the too many times that I see court personnel and lawyers guffawing unfairly over the misfortunes of scared criminal defendants. A world without laughter is certainly...
Separate sovereigns doctrine diminishes double jeopardy rights
A member of a different Indian tribe pleads guilty in a tribal court to violence to a policeman on an Indian reservation. The federal government subsequently prosecutes the man for assaulting a federal officer. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit agrees...