D.C. Superior Court

Dana Tapper Awarded $20,000 on Ellen DeGeneres Show

March 6, 2013 Current Events

Last September I wrote about Dana Tapper, a third-year law student at UVA who interned last summer with the Juvenile Services Program of the D.C. Public Defender Service. Apparently I was not the only person to be impressed by Dana. She was featured last week on the Ellen DeGeneres show, where DeGeneres presented her with [...]

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Judge Epps Now Handling DUI Calendar

January 18, 2013 D.C. Superior Court

I just made my first appearance in front of Judge Diana Epps in Room 116.  She took over the DUI calendar for D.C. Superior Court last month after Judge Knowles was sworn in as associate judge. Based on my experience with Judge Epps through probable cause hearings in JM-15, she seems to be genuinely sympathetic [...]

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Law Students in D.C. Superior Court

January 11, 2013 D.C. Superior Court

It is January, the beginning of the spring semester, and D.C. law students are back in court. There is the Juvenile Justice Clinic and the Prettyman Fellowship program, both programs run out of Georgetown. There is also the D.C. Law Students in Court internship that draws on law students from American, Catholic, Georgetown, George Washington, [...]

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Mindy Daniels, My Reluctant Mentor

December 20, 2012 Appellate Practice

She doesn’t know it yet but Mindy Daniels is going to be my mentor on all things having to do with the D.C. Court of Appeals. One of the first things I do whenever I start out in a new jurisdiction is to decide which lawyers I admire most. I then glom onto them. I [...]

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Why I Prefer D.C.

December 12, 2012 D.C. Superior Court

Here are 15 reasons I prefer D.C. Superior Court to the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia: There is a cafeteria. There is a lawyer’s lounge. There is a legal library. Women in orange jackets greet you when you come into the building and direct you to where you need to go. You can get into [...]

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Kimberley Knowles Sworn in as D.C. Superior Court Judge

November 12, 2012 Current Events

Judge Kimberley Knowles was sworn in as a D.C. Superior Court Associate Judge on Friday.  Confirmed by the Senate on August 2, Judge Knowles had previously served as a magistrate judge, sitting most recently in Room 116 where she presided over drinking-and-driving cases. According to Zoe Tillman of the Blog of Legal Times, Superior Court [...]

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On “Constructive Venting” And Wayne My Investigator

November 6, 2012 D.C. Superior Court

Seth Godin writes about a friend of his, a middle school teacher, who avoided the teacher’s lounge because “he couldn’t bear the badmouthing of students, the whining and the blaming”: Just about every organization, every on-line service, every product and every element of our culture now has chat rooms and forums devoted to a few [...]

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Firing Andrew Crespo

October 1, 2012 D.C. Superior Court

I am watching what has to be the best cross-examination at a probable cause hearing I have ever seen. It is a new attorney from the Public Defender Service (PDS), someone I have never seen before, and he is handling the cross-examination like he is Irving Younger. He is pleasant but firm. He moves methodically [...]

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A Guilty Plea at D.C. Superior Court

September 18, 2012 D.C. Superior Court

Guest Post by Emma Brush A visit to Arlington was the occasion for this undeserved opportunity of mine to post.  Originally, my Uncle Jamie had a jury trial scheduled. Knowing that I was considering law school, he thought it would be fun for me to see. Unfortunately, the court date was postponed.  Fortunately, he had [...]

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D.C. Welcomes NLADA’s Mark Houldin

September 8, 2012 Current Events

Mark Houldin has accepted a job with the National Legal Aid and Defender Association(NLADA).  NLADA is the nation’s oldest and largest non-profit association “devoted to excellence in the delivery of legal services to those who cannot afford counsel.” Moving last month from Philadelphia to D.C., Houldin will be working in the Defender Legal Services Department. According [...]

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