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No, I didn’t make my own list of Jury Blogs, I’m just cutting and pasting from Deliberations:

• The Science of Small Talk, Prof. Sam Sommers writing for Psychology Today.  It’s not always directly about juries (although the current series is), but juries are a large part of his scholarly focus, so it’s relevant even when the word “jury” isn’t used.
• Thaddeus Hoffmeister’s Juries, steadily strong.
• Jury consultant Dennis Elias’s JuryVox “micro-blog” on Twitter.  You have to join Twitter to “follow” Dennis there, and there’s no better reason to sign up; nobody delivers more value in 140 characters.
• The news feed at Jury Experiences, which collects news and blog posts about juries better than anyone else and includes an amazing archive of jurors’ own blog entries.
• The American Society of Trial Consultants’ The Jury Expert (bimonthly magazine) and announcements feed (occasional stories of interest).  I praised TJE here yesterday, but should give full disclosure:  I’m on ASTC’s Communications Committee, and will shortly join the board.  So don’t take my word for it, take Mark Bennett’s; TJE is very good.
• The National Center for State Courts’ Jur-E-Bulletin, an indispensable resource in your E-mail every Friday morning.
• Edward Schwartz’s The Jury Box blog, where posts are occasional but insightful.
• Things That Make You Go Hmmm . . . . , Jury Impact Consulting
• Chris Dominic’s blog at Tsongas Litigation Consulting, one post a month for quite awhile now.
• Harry Plotkin’s Jury Tip Of The Month newsletter.  There’s no RSS feed for these, and I can’t even find an E-mail subscription form, but if you write to Harry Plotkin (his address is on his site), I’m sure he’ll put you on the list.  The newsletters are excellent.
• Clay Conrad’s jurygeek, Robert Kelley’s Florida Jury Selection Blog, and Rich Matthews’ Juryology, all quiet in recent months but I stay subscribed just in case.

Thanks Anne. You’ve done the work for me, and my RSS reader is duly updated.

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Jordan Smith lists his Top Ten 2006 Reefer Madness stories in this week’s Austin Chronicle in Top Ten Joints.

Alex Coolman lists his ideas on winnable issues for drug policy reform in 2007. (“thehim” adds his commentary, and more ideas in his Drug War Roundup post.)

Grits for Breakfast writes a retrospective on the Top Ten Texas Criminal Justice Stories of 2006.

Evan Schaeffer recaps 2006 in a four part highlights series at Legal Underground.

Robert Ambrogi scours the web for Worst of 2006 lists: including Christopher Taylor’s Legal Outrage.

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The blogosphere has exploded in the last year to 18 months with all sorts of niche lawyer blogs. One of these subtypes is law professors, blogging on, unsurprisingly, topics as wide as the law itself covers.

Willamette University professor Jeffrey Standen teaches sports law and blogs about it at The Sports Law Professor.

Cardozo Law School professor of cyberlaw and IP blogs at the eponymous Susan Crawford Blog.

New York University Law School Professor Daniel Shaviro talks about Tax policy (mostly) at Start Making Sense.

Now teaching at Williams College, Alan Hirsch blogs at both The Truth About False Confessions and Attorney’s Fees Law.

Former FCC Commissioner, and author of How to Talk Back to Your Television Set Nick Johnson blogs from the University of Iowa Law School at FromDC2Iowa.

From the same school, congrats to the recently tenured professor Tung Yin who blogs at The Yin Blog. (Here’s the SSRN link as well.)

Gregory Bowman, at Mississippi College of Law writes the Law Career Blog and his articles can be found at SSRN as well.

PrawfsBlawg – 6 full time bloggers, with multiple guest posting professors as well.

And, of course, with well over 50 professors blogging on over 30 blogs and counting is the Law Professors Blogs site.

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Mitch Jackson’s MyTrialBlog provides useful tips for litigators, and several of his recent posts contain ideas applicable to my criminal trial practice as well. Examples that could be used for a DWI trial include:  pre-trial preparation, handling overruled objections in front of a jury and issuing challenges to the prosecutors during closing statements.

(Hat tip to South Carolina Trial Law Blog for pointing me to the site.)

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The good folks over at LexBlog have done a terrific job of designing the look, not to mention the technical aspects, of my new blog.

Here’s a shout-out to the people that I know were involved: Kevin, Ryan, Jesse and Colin. I’m sure there were several others who contributed as well, so, let me give them an anonymous thank you as well.

I appreciate the good work you guys have done, and I’m sure this blog will be able to fulfill its purpose: to inform the general public about important news items and developments in criminal law, especially here in Austin, Texas.

Thanks again guys!

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