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A site for non-lawyers (especially students) where issues in law are discussed. Focus on Criminal and Family law. Has a libertarian bent.

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BREAKING NEWS: Deborah Jeanne Palfrey, The "D.C. Madame" Commits Suicide

Posted on May 02, 2008
Deborah Jeanne Palfrey "The D.C. Madame" kept her macabre promise. She killed herself rather than spend another day in jail. Her elderly mom found her hanging from a steel beam in the shed... That is two deaths now associated with an Escort Service/prostitution ring...

Hillary Wants to Tax the Gasoline Industry... How about you just work to cut spending and stop taxing the gasoline???

Posted on April 30, 2008
Gosh it isn't hard to figure out why democrats rarely have a sound economic policy. They hate people who are successful...Democrat Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton wants to put a windfall profit tax on petroleum companies because they have figured out how to make a profit no matter what the price of gasoline is...

The "Mouse" in the House is a "Rat": Disney Flogs Cyrus and Lebowitz While Selling Sleaze Abroad

Posted on April 30, 2008
Disney jumped all over poor Miley Cyrus and celebrity photog Annie Leibowitz for taking pictures of Cyrus while her upper body was under a silk sheet and her back was exposed. Religious Righters who must make up a majority of Disney stockholders and allegedly the parents of Hannah Montana fans, completely forgetting their youth, freaked out over pictures that wouldn't steam up the windows of a hot house...

Welcome to a Day in My Life

Posted on April 30, 2008
Radley Balko blogs at a Cato Institute inspired (?) blog called The Agitator. He has a very funny piece today on Strip Club legal etiquette. As a First Amendment/Civil Rights/Constitutional/Criminal Defense Lawyer in New York and on Long Island, I have to answer questions like these 100 times a week*I also love my job Radley, but it can sometimes get tedious...

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Hannah Montana NUDE??? What Is The Big Deal with the Miley Cyrus Vanity Fair Photos??

Posted on April 29, 2008
The Today program is trying to tell parents how to "Deal" with the Photos of Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus in Vanity Fair. GIVE ME A BREAK.First off, give me a break. The photos do not rise to PG-13. If no one said anything about it most under the age of 15 would never have known she was in there...

Scalia on 60 Minutes: The Rock Star Speaks

Posted on April 27, 2008
It was a great interview. Nino starred. His sense of humor and his actual humility came through. I am not going to go around and look for ways that he is either a hypocrite or even wrong. I think for the first time since Justice Douglas, we have an erudite well spoken and well read judicial hero...

A Sunday Jog Around the Blogosphere

Posted on April 27, 2008
Wow what a busy week. 8 posts in one week!! Pretty good especially for me. I doubt I will be quite so prolific this week as I am going to be back on a suppression hearing on Tuesday and maybe Wednesday in People v. Ronald "Shorty" Rodriguez, before the Hon...

The Sean Bell Verdict in the Words of Justice Arthur Cooperman

Posted on April 26, 2008
From Newsday.com:Judge Arthur Cooperman's verdict11:51 AM EDT, April 25, 2008"Before dealing with the business at hand, I would like to remind everyone how important it is to honor the decorum of the court and remain quiet after the verdicts are rendered...

Mothers Against Drunk Drivers New Tactic : First Thing We Do Is Gag All The Lawyers

Posted on April 25, 2008
Our friends at DUIBLOG alert us to a new idea being tried out in Tennessee. A State Senator (a former nurse) has introduced an amendment to a Homeland Security bill to forbid Criminal Defense Lawyers from advertising their expertise in handling DWI cases...

Breaking News: Cops Acquitted of ALL CHARGES in SHAWN BELL MURDER CASE

Posted on April 25, 2008
This just in. I saw this as a possibility. Queens NY Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman hands the Defense a full acquittal in the murder of Shawn Bell.Cooperman has always been considered a law-enforcement judge but the defense did a wonderful job in attacking the witnesses...

Sharpton Reaction To The Bell Verdict: The Reverend Has The Right Idea, Just The Wrong Place ( Do Not Protest in Front of The Judge's House.)

Posted on April 25, 2008
Let me begin by saying, if one is not happy with a policy or action by there government, one of the best ways of expressing that dissent is through peaceful civil disobedience. Another good idea is to protest in places where your words will have an effect...

Reactions to the Sean Bell Shooting Verdict

Posted on April 25, 2008
I am listening to radio and to the reactions to the verdict in the Sean Bell shooting case.For those of you who do not keep up on race relations in New York City, Bell was a young man who was shot up by police who thought he, or someone in his car had a gun and that they were shooting at them...

Predictions In The Shawn Bell Manslaughter Case

Posted on April 24, 2008
Tomorrow Queens Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman will announce his verdict in the Shawn Bell Police Manslaughter case. You will remember Bell is the Queens (NY) man who was killed in a hail of police bullets the night before his wedding. He was unarmed...

Deed Piracy: A Particularly Cruel Type of Mortgage Fraud

Posted on April 22, 2008
With the advent of the "Depression of 2008", there are a lot of desperate homeowners in Suffolk (NY) and Nassau (NY) counties who are facing foreclosure. It is one thing to lose your money or your friends. It is quite another to lose the home and memories you've grown to love...

Number 201: A Jog Around The Blogosphere

Posted on April 20, 2008
I am starting an exercise program. (Yes smart guy another one.) So I figured I would start exercising here too. Hence we will jog around the Internet. Let's see how we do.I. Volokh Conspiracy is talking about a lot of things (hell 5685 law profs blog there...

Sub-Prime Mess Leads to Mortgage Fraud Prosecutions: The Millionaires Play While the Homeowners Will Pay With Their Freedom

Posted on April 20, 2008
On Friday the FBI announced that the sub prime mortgage mess is going to lead to an uptick in mortgage fraud prosecutions.Now what that translates to is that everyone who did something to help homeowners buy houses that they could not afford will be prosecuted, while the banks that profited all those years will pretend that they were unaware of the rampant fraud in the marketing of mortgages so that they can get as much of their money back while little players go to Federal prison...

To Err is Human, To Forgive Is Divine, To Forget Is Wrong

Posted on April 18, 2008
Bernardine Dohrn,William Ayers. I remember those names. I don't know why. Bernardine was the face and leader of the Students for a Democratic Society(SDS)splinter group the "Weather Underground." Ayers was one of it's founders.The "Weathermen" as they were called were militant and violent...

Yeager Is Allowed to See His Daughter : Half a Loaf is Better Than None I Guess

Posted on March 28, 2008
Well, I guess the pressure worked...to a point. I am told that Yacie Yaeger got to see her father one last time for a half hour yesterday. He was briefly given a visit...a half hour to visit with her. Seems that the Warden was deluged with calls.As for me, I'm sorry, but really is it so hard to be compassionate? Furlough the guy so he can stay at the bed round the clock...

Jayci Yeager Has Died. She Was Ten Years Old.

Posted on March 28, 2008
You can find the story here. My prayers go with her, and her family. She appears to have been a very special person.

Time to Let Her Daddy Come Home: Dying Child's Last Wish Is To See Her Imprisoned Father Before She Dies

Posted on March 23, 2008
There is a child dying in Lincoln Nebraska tonight. She is a very brave child. Her father was a very stupid man. You see, little Jayci Yaeger's father Jason, possessed and sold Crystal Meth. As a result he got a five year sentence in federal court. He would be going to a half way house in August 2008...

Learning To Persuade From Barack Obama

Posted on March 22, 2008
Learning to speak effectively is the number one need of the trial lawyer. Let's face it, what makes most of us want to become trial lawyers is the opportunity to convince others of our positions. As we travel through college and law school, we realize public speaking may not be our forte or even something we like...

Well I think we finally have a plan

Posted on March 21, 2008
Well I think I finally have a plan for this blog. I have wanted to mesh both blogs for a while. (Long Island (Criminal) Trial Law and That Lawyer Dude.) I also wanted to kind of start over for a bunch of reasons. I was trying to get the thing redesigned but my time for this is kind of limited...

What's Happening

Posted on December 18, 2007
At the present time, I have not been posting as I am working on launching a new blog same name. This may take a while. Meanwhile, Blogger's hatred of Opera (which I love) is cramping my style. It won't let me access my blog anymore unless I give in to Explorer or FireFox...

Hey Judge SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!

Posted on September 19, 2007
People v Thorpe2007 NY Slip Op 06731Decided on September 13, 2007Appellate Division, First DepartmentIn the above cited case, after denying the defendant an opportunity to even present a defense, we learn the the judge felt the need to "participate" in the case a little differently than allowed by law...

NEWSFLASH: Luciano Pavarotti, Italian Tenor, Is Dead at 71

Posted on September 06, 2007
The New York Times Reports that Maestro Luciano Pavarotti has died. With it, the heart of the opera world is broken and bereaved. As an American of Italian descent, an Opera lover and singer, and as a fan of Italian culture, I am more than sad. Another part of my history is gone...

NEWS FLASH CRAIG MAY NOT RESIGN!! Is This The Making of a Libertarian???

Posted on September 05, 2007
NEWS FLASH: IDAHO SENATOR LARRY CRAIG IS RECONSIDERING HIS DECISION TO STEP DOWNThe NY TIMES and the Associated Press (here)report Senator Larry Craig who said he was resigning from the US Senate after it was reported he was convicted of Disorderly conduct after being accused of soliciting gay sex in a public toilet, has let it be known he is reconsidering his decision...

That Lawyer Dude's Favorite Answers to Lawguru.com Questions

Posted on August 28, 2007
As Promised in the last post, I am going to repost some of my favorite Q & A from questions posted at LawGuru.com. These will be my answers to these questions.Feel free to send in your own questions to this blog by writing me at Catlaw1@yahoo.com. I will respond to everyone that I can...

Thank You Dennis Kennedy... And LawGuru.com

Posted on August 28, 2007
I have been very busy on the Internet, especially of late. I am in year three (3) of my Internet based Marketing Plan. I now market our firm's services through the Internet only. I use a Findlaw website, a blog (your reading it), and I answer questions posed on a few legal sites such as Findlaw's forums, Court TV forums, LinkedIn's Q & A andLawGuru...

The Week in Review

Posted on August 20, 2007
These stories got my attention this week: 1. Perverted Justice.Ted Rall a Pulitzer Prize nominated editorialist and cartoonist, rails against the prosecution of "Mahmud Faruq Brent, a 30-year-old D.C. taxi driver, is about to spend the next 15 years behind bars for 'conspiring to support a terrorist organization'...

In Memoriam: Alva Mae Groves Another Casualty In the No Win War On Drugs

Posted on August 12, 2007
The Following is printed with the permission of Howard Kieffer of BOPWatch. When are we going to realize that we have got to approach the drug problem in America from a new and more understanding angle???In Memoriam - Alva Mae Groves - Sentenced to 24 years in prison at at age 72...

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