a public defender

Yeah, not particularly clever, but here are some stories for you to read as you power down this Monday evening:

• We lost two stellar blogs this past week or so: Corrections Sentencing closed up shop and Audacity called it quits. Thank you both for everything.
• Here’s one take on why the Boucher 5th Amendment decision was wrong.
• CT Employment Law Blog checks in on the criminal database and offers kudos to those making it happen.
• Grits reports that a lack of beds is creating havoc for mentally ill defendants.
• A new judge was appointed to preside over Brian Nichols’ quagmire trial.
• Compassion in Juvenile Sentencing is a new blog on the scene that seems to be worth reading.
• Scott asks what it really means when a judge says that a nonviolent offender cannot survive prison.
• Eyewitness ID recaps the top 5 best and worst cases of the last year.
• Underdog reports on an NPR story that revisits the civil rights sit-ins.
• Bennett gives us a lesson on federal contempt.
• Ken at KrimLaw engages in an elements analysis and reaches an interesting conclusion.
• CrimProfBlog tells us how Texas finally got the right man in a DNA exoneration case.
• ConcurringOpinions links to a fascinating study on why prices aren’t usually rounded off.
• CoOp also gives us the heads up that BigBrother is closer than you’d imagine.
• There are also 4 appellate decisions in crim cases released today, but none are worthy of their own post, so you’re going to have to go read them yourself.

C’est tout! Bon soir!

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