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Please tell me it's not true. Tell me President Obama did not appear on the 1000th edition of America's Most Wanted. Tell me he did not succumb to the fear-mongering hysteria that seeks to transform worst-cases scenarios into norms of public policy.
But it is true. The president sat for an...

Robert Wilson was charged with conspiring to commit mail fraud and aiding and abetting another to make false statements on a tax return. When he was arrested, he claimed he was broke. A public defender was appointed, and, after a six-week trial, Wilson was acquitted. Only it turns out that Wilson...

Robert Wilson was charged with conspiring to commit mail fraud and aiding and abetting another to make false statements on a tax return. When he was arrested, he claimed he was broke. A public defender was appointed, and, after a six-week trial, Wilson was acquitted. Only it turns out that Wilson...

Lawyers come in all shapes and sizes. There are professors, transactional types, corporate counsel, litigators who can move a mountain of paper from the safety of their office and a plethora of other paperpushers. And there are trial lawyers: men and women who excel at the mind-to-mind combat that...

The State of Texas plans to kill Hank Skinner on March 24th. No question about it. And, to the great shame of the Lone Star State, no questions will be asked about whether Mr. Skinner is to be executed for a crime he did not commit.
Skinner was convicted and sentenced to death for the December...

Are you depressed? Take a pill. That might make you feel better. But what if you are depressed for good reason? What if the world's got you down because the world is depressing?
Thirty million Americans take antidepressants. They spend $10 billion a year on antidepressants, according to Gary...

Senator Christopher Dodd is a lame duck. He reads the polls. Last November a Quinnipiac College poll put his approval rating at a dismal 40 percent; 54 percent of those polled disapproved of him. Democrat pundits breathed a sigh of relief when the Senator announced he was folding his tent. The...

I lost a case today that I should have won. Period. And I lost the case, in part, because the conventional wisdom is wrong. Although lawyers and judges have scorn for jailhouse snitches, I am persuaded that jurors love them. A trio of snitches put my client away for life.
George Leniart was...

An educated person is one capable of drawing distinctions. The goal is something akin to wisdom, or at the very least, mastery of the art of learning. But those skills are not apparently valued at Lake Michigan College. Hysteria will do there, and unreasoning moral panic.
LMC president Robert...

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