Hypocrisy in the Colosseum

Gladiator


I haven’t written much about the criminal law case that’s been scintillating — and then enraging — others around the country, the Casey Anthony case.

In the beginning, it was a combination of being too busy for that, and recognizing that whatever I saw on the news was likely to be sensationalized and full of erroneous and perhaps even deliberately misleading information.

As time went on, it became clear to me that there was another reason not to watch: ancient Rome was never one of my favorite “civilizations” and the Colosseum most likely would have disgusted me.

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Nothing But The Facts

Carnival mask


One of my favorite bloggers, Houston DWI attorney Paul B. Kennedy, writes “What twisted webs we weave” over at The Defense Rests today.

At first, I thought it was going to be another Rakofsky post, because he started off with this:

In the end all you have is your name and your credibility. Once you’ve besmirched those two things, you have nothing left.

Paul’s post, while in a sense related, is much more interesting to me than the Rakofsky debacle.

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The Jury & The Adversarial System

Jury Box


Yesterday, a friend and I were working in my office — yes, we knew it was Sunday; no, our clocks didn’t spring all the way forward to Monday — and towards the end of our day, she told me about the importance of a new cover for the iPhone, specially-designed to direct radiation away from your brain.

This is very important, she said, because cell phone radiation is so significant that it can make popcorn pop.

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Facebooking Jurors Before Letting Them In YourSpace


Maybe that title is a little too cute.  (I picked it after Kerry Prindiville, a librarian at the Fresno Public Law Library, sent me the link to an article on the use of social networking sites by jury consultants.)  And maybe it’s time for me to move on from writing about MySpace, Facebook and other social networking sites.  It’s something of a hot topic, however, and I have some pretty strong feelings about it.

My other articles about this may be found here and here. Those articles have started to attract some attention of their own….

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