Blog Posts in February, 2009

I’m working on a quite serious case involving an innocent man accused of things he could not possibly have done. This impacts my ability to write the type of blog entry I prefer. On the other hand, I ...

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 ...

When I was a kid, we sometimes got into fights. Occasionally, we got into rock fights. Now rock fights can be pretty dangerous things. After all, even a one- or two-pound solid projectile, properly ...

Almost two weeks ago, I noted that former-accused-statutory-rapist -turned-police-chief Jerry Dyer had seen the light: after some of the officers on his crack team of — wait, that won’t work… — after ...

On page one of today’s San Francisco Chronicle, above the fold, is another article concerning California’s prisons. If I did the math right, California’s prisons hold 7.2% of the nation’s prisoners, ...