Everyone loves the internet. The available information; the social networking; the ability to do things from your home computer that used to require you to actually get out of your house; the free expression. But the “information superhighway” has a dark side and that is that anyone can post a negative opinion about you on …
Monthly Archive: January 2011
Jan 12 2011
True Strength of Our Constitution Proven By Assignment of Judy Clarke to Represent Tucson Shooter
While the Tucson incident has lots of people talking about the Second Amendment and how it is applied, the amendment that is really being put to the test and coming through with flying colors is the Sixth Amendment. The Sixth gives an accused person several guarantees (jury trial, speedy trial, public trial etc.) But it …
Jan 09 2011
NY Times Reports Grim Reality: Many Law Grads Jobless!
Today’s NY Times Business section includes a comprehensive report of how many law students cannot find work in the law profession. Saddled with over one hundred thousand dollars in additional debt (even mediocre law schools charge about $40K per year intuition) these folks are working as assistant managers in Home Depots or waiting tables at …
Jan 07 2011
Mother’s Effort Gets 18 Year Old Conviction Overturned
Mama knows best and this Mother’s Day Louis Hairston owes his mother a big, big present. She was able to get his manslaughter conviction overturned after she found evidence of prosecutorial misconduct during her investigation of her’s son’s conviction. The 1992 killing in Mount Vernon appeared to have been triggered by a scuffle on a …
Jan 04 2011
Scalia’s Constricted View of the Constitution is Wrong and Dangerous
I wish Antonin Scalia was just that crazy old uncle in every family that we all kind of put up with. You know, the type that’s stuck in the past, who still wishes he could hear Jack Benny on the radio, and calls women “gals” and African Americans “the coloreds.” But unfortunately Scalia is 1 …