a public defender

Added to the sidebar on the right is a public defender blog specific search. Many thanks for Greg of PD Stuff for sharing the code.

Taken from his post announcing the search box:

At the top of the sidebar is a search engine created especially for Public Defender Stuff.

The engine only searches these sites:

* All of the public defender blogs, including a couple of defunct sites

* SCOTUSblog
* Sentencing Law and Policy
* Legal Reader
* How Appealing
* FourthAmendment.com
* Capital Defense Weekly
* CrimProf
* TalkLeft
* Grits for Breakfast
* Trial Ad Notes
* Indefensible
* JuvieJournal
* Sui Generis
* Robert Ambrogi’s Law Sites
* Sex Crimes

I have also added a few more sites to the this list:

• The Confrontation Blog
• Eyewitness ID Blog
• SexCrimeDefender
• Appellate Law & Practice
• Austin Criminal Defense
• Crime and Federalism
• Criminal Appeal
• Defending people…
• AEDPA law and policy

The idea is to separate the wheat from the chaff before the search even starts, focusing on the blogs out there that we already know and trust. Search, for example, “search and seizure” and compare it with a general-web Google search. The general search returns as its top links an overview of the concept, while the PD Stuff search brings you recent developments, thoughts and nuances from some of the best legal minds in the business.

Try it out and see what you think, then let me know if you think the search could benefit by adding a specific site or blog.

The search is powered by Google Co-op and if you’d like to add it to your blog I can send you the code to put on your sidebar. Just send me an email.