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Who's On Trial In The Casey Anthony Case?

In the glory days, when Clarence Darrow argued from morning ‘til night, and crowds fought for a seat in the gallery, a criminal trial was both entertainment and constitutional convention. Folks fought for seats, to be present at the event, and to register their support for one side or the...

Brave New World?

Paul Gilding doesn’t mince any words. Things are going to get bad. Very bad. What will be required is a mobilization of social resources, a reorientation in the way we relate to one another and to the world, that will make our transition to a war economy in the Second World War look trivial....

What Freedom Looks Like

I got a chance yesterday to see what freedom looks like: freedom is a man still dressed in his orange prison jump suit springing from the passenger seat of your car into the waiting arms of a loved one standing outside a housing project. Freedom is the stunned, even shocked look of two brothers...

Shame On Medill; Too Prissy To Fight For The Truth

In the blood-sport that is capital litigation, ends often justify the means. The fight to save a client’s life can yield conduct that lawyers would not otherwise condone. And the state, as always, has the means, opportunity and motive to engage in strategic deception, as in all cases. The...

Bob Fogelnest On Taking Back The Courts

Earlier this year, I asked Robert Fogelnest, past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, to read a draft of my new book, Taking Back the Courts. Bob's a good friend, now living as an expatriate in Mexico after decades of courtroom fighting in the United States. We...

Civilization, Weinergate and Discontent

Anthony Weiner lacks inhibitions. Now he lacks a job. Time now for the next question: Are we out of our minds?
The seven-term former Congressman, age 46, has an active libido. When he shared photographic images of himself with young women on Facebook and Twitter, he took a self-destructive,...

Jack Weinstein: A Judge With Balls

It’s time to put the potted-plant theory of the separation of powers doctrine to rest. Jack B. Weinstein, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, is proof that it can be done. All it takes is a judiciary determined to take its role as judges...

Gerry Spence On Taking Back The Courts

Some folks are bigger than their critics. When I asked Gerry Spence to look over a draft of my new book, I expected him to decline. But he did not. He wrote the introduction, proving once again that a kind gesture speaks far louder than noisy recrimination.
Introduction
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F. Lee Bailey On Taking Back The Courts

Here's the foreward to my new book, Taking Back the Courts, written by an idol of mine, F. Lee Bailey. To say I was thrilled to get this review is an understatement.
FOREWORD
Several years ago I was asked by my most important client at the time to find him a fearless, highly...

Utterly Shameless Self-Promotion ...

... and an awful lot of fun, too.
To those of you who have wondered why I've not been on Chaz and AJ's morning show in a while, wonder no more. I'll be promoting my new book and raising Hell on 99.1 FM tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. Listen up.

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