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Odds and Ends

Here are a few odds and ends that would likely become full posts in their own right if I had more bandwidth to focus on the blog today:End of an eraAs of tomorrow, Americans must present a passport to cross the Mexican and Canadian borders. For my entire lifetime, a driver's license and a declaration of citizenship have sufficed.Legal ethics and other oxymoronsMark Bennett takes notable exception to ethics instruction by Williamson County DA John Bradley in the wake of a recent Supreme Court case on the right to counsel. Bradley advises that a recent Supreme Court opinion voids a longstanding Texas disciplinary rule barring prosecutors from approving contact by police with a defendant who is represented by counsel ("taking a run" at a suspect, in the parlance) without notifying their lawyer...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 31, 2009 (boomark / email).