Comments on: What’s in a word?

By: Gideon

Gideon — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:25:31 +0000

How many times will that happen? Once? Twice? Then you’ll get the hang of it and it will be natural.

By: Marina Handwerk

Marina Handwerk — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:33:26 +0000

In theory, this seems like a good idea, but I think it would be hard to remember not to use any of the banned words. I can just imagine many, many instances of “Did he r- did he attempt to have sex with you?”

By: Failure no more | a public defender

Failure no more | a public defender — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:36:18 +0000

[...] Jamie at Austin Criminal Defense followed up with his own post, Anne got involved and the Great Greenfield has his own comments on this and why defendants should or should not testify. Universally, the defense blawgers agree that this makes them cringe; that the word “failure” connotes something negative (much like the use of the word “victim“). [...]

By: “Banned words” accuser sues judge | a public defender

“Banned words” accuser sues judge | a public defender — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:50:45 +0000

[...] accuser in the “banned words” trial [previous coverage here and here] has sued the state court judge who ruled that the words “rape”, “sexual [...]

By: “Banned words” trial starts/ends (?) with mistrial | a public defender

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:22:04 +0000

[...] the trial began, the Nebraska judge that earlier banned [previous coverage] the use of the words “rape”, “victim”, etc… [...]

By: Being John Q. Prosecutor | a public defender

Being John Q. Prosecutor | a public defender — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:09:42 +0000

[...] discussing legal issues, some discussing news stories. There’s even one about the judge that banned the use of the word “rape” at trial. Here’s a recent goodie, titled “Good search?”: Defendant was pulled [...]