Legal Commentary

Today's Crime Postings

By Jeralyn

I just got an e-mail asking me when TalkLeft was going to return to covering the politics of crime now that the nomination has been decided. Just today, TChris and I posted these:

• Civilian Oversight and Police Accountability
• Texas To Address Problem of Wrongful Convictions
• Prosecutor Wants More Death in Mississippi
• A War Based on Lies
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Sings in Court, Welcomes the Death Penalty
• Marine Acquitted in Charges Related to Haditha Killings
• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Arraignment at Gitmo Today

Considering we are practicing lawyers with day jobs, and it's been 24 hours since the nomination has been decided, that's a fairly prodigious amount of writing. [More...]

We write a lot here in a day -- usually 20 posts or more. You either need to scroll down the front page or put TL in your RSS feeder so you can see the headlines of the last ten or so stories without having to open the site. You can just click on those you are interested in.

I also find it somewhat amusing that after 6 years there are still so few comments on the crime posts, yet when they slow down, as they did during the nomination race, I get a slew of e-mails from irate lawyers who tell me how disappointed they are in TalkLeft.

Judging by the comments and the rise in our traffic over the last six months, the coverage of the primaries is what readers want. Nonetheless, silent lawyer lurkers can rest assured, TChris and I are back on crime duty.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on June 05, 2008 (boomark / email).