a public defender

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It’s going to be a scorcher today!

• CT’s Supreme Court issues a gay marriage ruling.
• Another Texas oddity: A motor vehicle known as the Cruzin’ Cooler. Take a guess.
• Someone far smarter than me tries to untangle the hodgepodge in U.S. v. Santos
• A law grad in Michigan was denied admission to the bar after he answered truthfully about his views on the justice system.
• America’s prison population has hit an all-time high (particularly amusing to me since I spent all day yesterday watching the first season of Weeds. Yes, that is a pot joke).
• Mark Bennett exposes yet another member of the seedy bar: Ollie the Cabdrivertising Attorney. We all have an Ollie in our local bars.
• Anne Reed on gaze aversion by jurors.
• NY appellate court upholds warrantless use of GPS to track suspect.
• When you fight about everything in a case and file stupid motions, you get rulings like this.
• Juries writes about CT’s new opt-in jury duty law and the Constitutional problems it might present.
• Lowering the bar reviews the history of the use of the F-word in SCOTUS oral arguments.
• Norm is on trial representing a long-lost Bobbitt.
• SL & P reports that the “soft on crime” presidential mud-slinging has begun.
• Obscenity is what 6 people think it is: “Max Hardcore” found guilty.
• Scott comments on a judge finally using discretion to block attempts to give a defendant a length sentence.
• CDW’s weekly edition is here.