Archive for February 16, 2009
How much time is enough? (now with poll)
Feb 16th
I’ve spent pretty much all day thinking about the “trial list” and when I’ve managed to move onto other pursuits, it comes back into focus. For those not “in the know”, a trial list is a list of cases presumed “ready” to go to trial in a given court. The exact practice differs from court to court, but the general idea is that if you’re unable to come to a resolution, the matter will be placed on the “trial list” and then you will be given a certain period of notice before jury selection starts. In some instances, this “notice” could be as short as 48 hours (or is it 24?).
I’ve been told by the Texas Tornado that they too have a similar process where they have to check in every morning for a period of two weeks or so to find out if they’re picking a jury that day.
If this seems somewhat bizarre to you, that’s because it is.
More free advice from Gideon: cross-examination techniques
Feb 16th
learn from the master
Update: Since none o’y'all want to show your appreciation for this fine Free InformationTM, I had to pull out all the stops and insert this picture of J. Scalia. Now comment, or he’ll tell you how rude you are.
Original: We, here at A Public Defender, are a magnanimous sort. We have some amount of knowledge and we like to share it, however infantile or irrelevant or useless or wrong it may be. It is one of our hallmarks and we know you love us for it.
After all, who else would give poor, overworked, overwhelmed and overburdened law students some nifty pointers on objections. Who else would divulge the secrets of the law school experience and share our collective wisdom gained through that process?
No one, that’s who.
So, kids, sit back, grab some popcorn, uncork that Rioja (that’s for you Charon), light that joint*, shoot that dope* and get ready to learn.
This time, we won’t be presenting you with a list. Lists are so 2008. I’ve got something better. A live demonstration. All you ever need to know about cross-examinations and objection techniques and biased judges and, of course, how to roll over, is in this video. You can thank me in the comments.
(The video, unfortunately, is below the jump, because some people are still stuck in 1954, using IE6, which apparently can’t handle a simple Flash embed and crashes constantly. For those of you using IE6 [seems to work in IE7] (and really, please shoot yourself now), you can watch the video here. HT)
Monday Morning Jumpstart
Feb 16th
You know, on this day off, I finally decided to get back to posting a Jumpstart, but then I realized that the Texas Torndao was hosting Blawg Review this week. So I mosied on over there, and sure enough, he’s got it all. He’s done a terrific job of covering the week’s criminal law blog posts and news stories, so anything I write here will be duplicative.
It’s a day off, so make yourself useful and head on over to Blawg Review 199. It’ll keep you busy all day, I promise.
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