Cold Feet on the Morning of Trial
It must be pretty intimidating to arrive at the courthouse for trial to find five police officers, an eyewitness, and a complaining witness all sitting in the hallway, laughing and joking with each other and then growing silent… Read More
Kate Hamilton: Fictional Public Defender in Washington State
After a 15-month hiatus from blogging over at Public Defender Revolution, Carol D has posted the first 29 chapters of an unpublished novel about a public defender practicing in Washington State. Reprinted below with the author’s permission is… Read More
The Ties Will Last You Forever
My wife complains about all the closet space I take up with my neckties. I do have lots of them. You see, I have this theory about ties, a theory that was finally confirmed by the guy who… Read More
Wherever We Wish, Hydrangeas Could Be Blooming
The “Family Tree” people from Belchertown have taken down most of the big trees in my parents’ yard. My oldest sister – the one who helps my mother with her finances — hired them to do some trimming…. Read More
Real Gangsters
H/T Ruth Hamburger
Commas, Saving Lives
H/T Appellate Record
A Christmas Poem: “Star”
Silence is what one knows about a star a far-off shining where no others are sufficient revelation though it mean no more than of the darkness to be seen. (c) G. Stanley Koehler
I Hate Latin: Res Ipsa Loquitur
I only took two years of Latin in High School. It was years before I actually admitted this to my children. Because I often cited the Latin origins of a word, they assumed I was this great Latin… Read More
On Roses, Scam Artists, and Criminal Defense
A number of years ago, while on vacation in Miami, my family and I were sitting in a restaurant when a man approached the table and handed my then 15-year-old daughter a paper rose. Angered by the intrusion,… Read More
