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Lately, I’ve been having odd dreams. In a way, it’s a real bummer. “In real life,” I fight with judges on a daily basis. Sometimes I have to practically beg them to follow the law. And now I’m doing the same thing in my dreams. Now, “in real life,” and also inside my head while

One of the things that makes it incredibly hard to find things to want to blog about lately is that there’s so much wrong which is systemic, I don’t even know where to start. But one thing that stands out for me today is that there must, always, be someone to blame.

Not something to

Many people — not all, of course! — are celebrating Christmas today. I don’t want to rain on your Christmas parade, but as a criminal defense lawyer, writing on a criminal defense blog, on a criminal defense website, I would be remiss if I didn’t give you a little Christmas warning. Unlike a lot of

First, I want to say that, on average, I think public defenders are better attorneys than private attorneys. There are definitely some counties I could name where that is not true. (Fresno, though, has a most-excellent Public Defender Office, and they’ve been meeting the needs of people and kicking ass bigtime for a while now!)