I originally said I was going to do my follow up post to “Twenty-First Century Delphic Oracle” the week after that post, and talk about how I actually use it myself. Well, sue me. “From Fumes to Function: How One Lawyer (Me!) Uses Artificial Intelligence” took a back seat to bicycling, and a few other
A couple or more months ago, I said I was going to follow up my article on artificial intelligence with another on specifically how I use artificial intelligence. I’m going to get to that. I’m delayed because, as to the law, I really don’t use it much. So I’ve had to do a lot of
I keep meaning to write a post about my experiences with ChatGPT-4, which I refer to as the “Twenty-First Century Delphic Oracle,” or just “the Oracle.” Those who know her well call her “Pythia” or “the Pythoness,” depending, I guess, on how they feel about her, where they’re from, or what language they speak.
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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!)
Vayamos al grano: CSAAS, o “Child Sexual Assault Accommodation Syndrome” (en inglés), es una mierda tan pura que ni siquiera merece la etiqueta “ciencia basura”. Es la pseudociencia del acoso sexual. Es astrología disfrazada de pruebas psicológicas válidas. Sus practicantes son como las tablas ouija que usan los fiscales para deletrear “C-O-N-V-I-C-C-I-Ó-N” y luego
The Daily Journal, a newspaper for the professedly-legal profession, reports that complaints about judges hit two records last year. I can’t link it, because it’s behind a paywall that even some attorneys cannot afford to pay.
Many of you know that I have become quite critical of judges, as I’ve become less able to stomach
My work is hard, but at least often-enough rewarding. I work at leaving good tracks as I walk with the people who have hired me.
And every path is different. Because every person is different. The charges against them and the circumstances surrounding their cases are different.
I have a few stories I carry as
Mi trabajo es duro, pero al menos a menudo gratificante. Trabajo para dejar buenas huellas al caminar con las personas que me han contratado. Porque las huellas que dejamos importan.
Y cada camino es diferente. Porque cada persona es diferente. Los cargos que se les imputan y las circunstancias que rodean sus casos son diferentes.
An article I was reading yesterday mentioned that from 1989 until the time the article was written in 2018, there were more than 2,000 exonerations. Aliza B. Kaplan and Janis C. Puracal, “It’s Not a Match: Why the Law Can’t Let Go of Junk Science” 81.3 Alb.L.Rev. 895, 921 (2018).
Many of those people, like
