Criminal Lawyer Blog Roundup
If you don’t count hosting Blog Review, or my Criminal Law Blog Poll, it’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these, so here goes:
Shawn Matlock writes about the ‘Business of Winning’ criminal cases, and Stephen Gustitis follows up with ‘Adjusting Client Expectations’. Jon Katz’ philosophy of winning is all about t’ai chi.
Robert Guest posts on DWI propaganda and what prosecutors are taught about DWI. Hunter Biederman reports on CMI’s refusal (so far) to comply with court orders that they turn over the source code for the mysterious Intoxilyzer 5000. And Steven Eversole asks us whether there’s a presumption of innocence or guilt in DUI cases.
Mark Bennett writes related posts on ‘Managing the Risk of Child Sex Abuse’ and ‘We Predators’.
Ed Chernoff tells us about a late Friday phone call he got. You know the kind: the Friday before trial the prosecutor calls to tell you that every single co-defendant has reached a last minute plea agreement to testify against your client in a massive Federal drug conspiracy case.
Brian Tannebaum lists some failures in the criminal defense system.
Mark Jakubik chimes in on the recent blawgosphere debate about whether criminal defense lawyers can be ‘conservatives’.
Overcriminalized, which has plenty of grist from Texas to talk about, notes that other states are not immune from overreacting to non-criminal situations.
Scott Greenfield talks about the Dream Team phenomenon.
And White Collar Crime Prof Blog predicts that shenanigans involving Iraq rebuilding contracts will become the new goldmine for Federal white collar criminal defense attorneys.
[Let me add: the ‘full’ results of the Criminal Law Blog Poll have not yet been posted, inasmuch as I still need to complete the task by adding a few more posts with links to all responders. Fear not, it’s in the proverbial ‘to do’ list.]
