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A series of Rorschach – part one
You know those “no turn on red” signs that hang from wires next to traffic signals? Some of them have holes in them. Do you know why? One theory I’ve heard is that it’s done to prevent homeless people...
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More than 3.5 million reasons why the death penalty should be abolished
The death penalty is crazy. It’s barbaric. It’s sanctioned murder. We should end it. Here are more than 3.5 million reasons why: 1-3.5 million: $3.5 million is how much the defense expert billed the...
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8 Mind-Blowing Basic Things About The Justice System You Won’t Learn From The...
Mind-blowing: Literally In fact, if this is not you after reading this post, you should ask for your money back: So without further adieu, here are, in some random order, 6 basic truths about the...
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Facts are what judges say they are
A fact, in the real world, is defined as: something that truly exists or happens : something that has actual existence. In the legal world, a “fact” is defined as: something that the jury could...
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Defense social workers shouldn’t have to rat out their clients
[This is my latest in the CT Law Tribune and Part One of a two-part series. Part Two is here.] Child abuse is a terrible thing. There is no dispute that in the hierarchy of most despicable crimes, the...
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Some lawyers in CT are also mandated reporters
That’s your constitution in the middle, getting screwed over. I wrote yesterday about the CT legislature failing to enact an exemption to the mandatory reporting statute for social workers employed by...
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Happy Not Columbus Day
If you, like me, are at home today celebrating Columbus Day, the Oatmeal sets us straight as to why it should be anything but a celebration of Christopher Columbus.
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The horror of teachers making slasher films
The Twerking Undead Hi America. There is a scourge in our nation today and that is sex. And gore. And children who might potentially be exposed to gore. And sex. and Violence. And bikinis. And those...
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Snitches get people wrongfully convicted: another exoneration
It’s not cute enough to be on a poster, or a warning sign in the neighborhood, but it should be. The Innocence Project estimates that about 18% of all wrongful convictions include snitch/informant...
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Black men are exigent circumstances
Pursuant to the protections of the Fourth Amendment granted to every resident of this country, police cannot enter a residence or a closed bedroom without a warrant. This would violate the Fourth...
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Death by any means
It’s bad enough that the duty of prosecutors to disclose and give to the accused any exculpatory and impeachment evidence is entirely self-regulated. It’s quite another when prosecutors flout that...
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A double standard in prosecutorial misconduct
Last week, in a Connecticut courtroom, something unprecedented happened: after a jury returned a guilty verdict in a trial, the judge, from the bench, suspended the defense lawyer for 20 days from the...
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If you don’t buy this t-shirt, the racists win
I don’t normally plug things for sale on the blog, but a good friend has made this tongue-in-cheek, but very serious t-shirt juxtaposing the ways we treat black and white actions differently in this...
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Rowdy Rioters
If you don’t think there is a dichotomy in the way America treats its races, you’re an idiot. The incident at Keene and the treatment of it by the news media should be Exhibit A. Read this fantastic...
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Not all child molesters
Everyone who molests children is a horrible, evil person. Everyone who looks at photos of child pornography is the devil and deserves to die immediately, or slowly and excruciatingly, or deserves to be...
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Yet another example of unsanctioned prosecutorial misconduct
I wrote last week about the double standard in sanctioning defense attorneys while scores of prosecutors nationwide engage in deliberate and willful misconduct that deprives individuals of their...
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Fear the death of rights
Human rights, individual rights. We all have rights. We all should have the same rights. Yet we often withhold those basic rights that we’d want for ourselves from others in civilization because we...
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Dispensing with the sham: prosecutors serving as judges
A judge usually wears many hats: jurist, prosecutor, defense attorney. A judge has to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a case in pre-trial negotiations, make offers, impose just sentences,...
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6 horrifying things you learn as a death row inmate
I’ve written before about how dehumanizing prisons are and how badly inmates are treated by guards and of course I’ve written about the injustices of the system, but you folks seem to all be...
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A Founding Father of incompetence
This is Thomas Jefferson: This is Dennis Hawver, dressed at Thomas Jefferson, surrounded by people who are inexplicably not laughing their asses off at him: Hawver, a Republican and Libertarian once...
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