As you may have noticed, I love reading criminal defense blogs, and now there's a new one I'm looking forward to. Actually it's one of the oldest crimlaw blogs on the web, but it's getting some new life to it: Mirriam Seddiq -- the no-longer-anonymous proprietress of the original Not Guilty blog -- is scraping a few rusty spots off her sword and shield as … [Read more...] about “We Are All Not Guilty of Something…”
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
I've been a Weird Al fan since the beginning, so yeah, I'd go see this. … [Read more...] about Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
WFTC: We Don’t Work For the Money
In my latest piece for When Falls the Coliseum, I try to explain why we work, and it's not for the money. To be honest, I kind of rushed this piece out to meet my self-imposed goal of posting something on WFTC every week. It's really not very good. I wouldn't read it if I were you. … [Read more...] about WFTC: We Don’t Work For the Money
Census Form! Entrapment! Beware!
I just got my 2010 Census form in the mail. I assume some of you got one too. You may have noticed that the cover letter includes the following paragraph: This is your official 2010 Census form. We need your help to count everyone in the United States by providing basic information about all the people living in this house or apartment. Please complete and mail back the … [Read more...] about Census Form! Entrapment! Beware!
Time To Put Email In an Envelope
Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice has a long-running debate with the Volokh Conspiracy's Orin Kerr over how search and seizure laws should apply in the digital world. Briefly, Kerr advocates what he calls a "technology neutral" approach, in which we try to create a mapping between real world concepts and their digital analogs in order to apply centuries of … [Read more...] about Time To Put Email In an Envelope