Someone needs to speak with Shawn Chapman Holley, Lindsay Lohan’s criminal defense attorney out in LaLa Land. Now Holley, is an experienced high-profile lawyer at one of California’s most powerful entertainment firms. But apparently Lindsay Lohan is on auto-pilot. On Monday, May 24, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ordered her to wear a [...]
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OK, let’s break out all the sports analogies: “The Supreme Court sacked the NFL… ” , “The NFL took a hit yesterday . . .” ” The Supreme Court blind sided the NFL . . .” Now that we have that out of the way, here’s what happened. In what will be considered a [...] A few days ago, I wrote about a Jerry Guerinot, a Texas lawyer who has lost 20 death penalty cases, and I labeled him “The Most Dangerous Lawyer in Texas.” Well, today the NY Times did a lengthy article about Mark Heller, a long practicing lawyer in NY with a nefarious reputation, whom I replaced [...] Those of us who have gone through raising middle schoolers or who teach for a living know that of all the classes in the world, teaching Middle School Health is as thankless a task as you can get assigned to. Hormones raging, sexual experimentation occurring regularly, cliques, mean girls, immature boys: a recipe for disaster. [...] If you’ve ever gambled in a casino, you know its easy to get carried away and lose big money. No one knows that more than Terrance Watanabe, a Nebraska businessman who blew through $200 Million in 2007 at two Vegas casinos – The Rio and Caesar’s Palace, both operated by Harrah’s Entertainment. That is not [...] Monday, Adam Liptak, the NY Times’ legal reporter, published an article about Jerry Guerinot, a Texas lawyer who holds the distinction of having represented the most people sentenced to death – 20. That’s more people than most states that have the death penalty have on Death Row. He has not won one capital case. Liptak, [...] In a 6-3 decision today, the United States Supreme Court struck down laws in 37 states, including Florida and California, that allow a juvenile to be sentenced to life with no chance for parole for a crime that does not involve murder. The case of Graham v. Florida involved a 16 year old sentenced to [...] OK, what could Kim Kardashian possibly effect that would be worthy of a post on a law-themed blog? Nothing really, but she is among the most searched names on the internet and one of the Top 5 “tags” that drives viewers to websites, so I figured why not get some traffic to the blog by [...] President Obama’s selection of Solicitor General Elena Kagan has been met with mixed reviews. Those on the left worry she’s not left enough, while those on the right just worry. It is likely she will be confirmed because while she may not be everyone’s cup of tea, there is really nothing you can point to [...] Two years ago, I was asked by David McCallum, (whose innocence I am trying to prove as he serves his 24th year in prison for a murder he didn’t commit), whether I would consider bringing in a team of my law students to debate a prison debate team that had formed at Arthur Kill Correctional [...] |
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