Monday Morning Jumpstart: Columbus Day v2.0
Good morning folks. Hope everyone is able to enjoy this long weekend. I’m taking advantage of the day off by posting a Jumpstart, after a several week hiatus. Here are the weekend’s most interesting posts and stories:
- Two law schools will now disregard the LSAT. Why didn’t this happen when I was applying to law school?
- A little judicial humor goes a long way.
- Blonde Justice shows us how jury selection is different everywhere you go.
- This piece at Co-Op talks about the viability of alternate remedies for prosecutorial misconduct impropriety, eschewing the traditional all or nothing.
- Bennett reviews the e-book “The Truth About Hiring A Criminal Defense Lawyer” and gives it three whirls of the chainsaw.
- Anne at Deliberations got her hands on the O.J. questionnaires and gently encourages us to role-play with them.
- The Dallas Morning News has this fantastic series on questionable police tactics (ID and otherwise) that put innocent men behind bars.
- The same News then follows up with this piece on the problems with “show-ups”.
- The Courant has this long and touching piece on the struggle of Beth Kerrigan – named plaintiff in the gay-marriage case.
- Michigan attempts jury reform. Juries has the details.
- Here’s a preview of the upcoming week at SCOTUS.
- The US Sentencing Commission is looking at alternatives to incarceration.
- Scott doesn’t like jailhouse lawyers asking him to lie.
- Judge Pirro isn’t very popular.
That’s all for today! Enjoy the day off.
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