They Know Not What They Do

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Recently, a rather astounding ruling — astounding to those of us who practice criminal defense in the United States, anyway — came out of a courtroom in Santa Ana, California.

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Open Letter to Prosecutors re: Discovery

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Look, we don’t see eye to eye.  I get that.  You have your view of the world; I have mine.  And our jobs require us to be key components in an adversarial system.

And even though it’s sometimes fun, or funny, to joke about it, “adversarial” doesn’t mean we’re enemies.

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