Demonstrative Evidence


This blawg reviews recent criminal rulings in state and federal courts, comments on other legal news and shares humorous Web links.

Author: Charles Thomas is an assistant public defender at the Lancaster County (Pa.) Public Defender's Office and "a law geek, first and foremost."

Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Public Defenders • Public Defender

Recent Posts from Demonstrative Evidence


  • Meet Jane Roe

    I may be a month late to this party, but at first I dismissed it as an insignificant piece of bizarro non-news, the opposite of a human interest story. More of a human freakshow.A single…

  • How to have a college football playoff system in four easy steps

    The infrequent blawgger returns to post about college football? Yeah - it's my blog. Deal.As it currently stands, and I am intentionally oversimplifying here, the college football championship is currently decided by consensus. The BCS…

  • Why law school sucks, part I

    Imagine you are a medical student. What if you were allowed to ignore an entire system of the body in order to study something cool and very difficult to get into, like plastic surgery? You…

  • Worst. CLE. Ever.

    I am at a CLE, Internet Law Update.This is the worst waste of time I have ever had the displeasure of sitting through. The speaker on Web 2.0 and the law clearly did not use…

  • Does this mean we can have real forks again?

    Hat tip to the brilliant (no exaggeration) John Wesley Hall for this. He writes in his Fourth Amendment blog that Homeland Security is considering requiring all airline passengers to wear an electronic ID bracelet with…

  • Some thoughts on marriage, and the nature of rights

    I had a thought earlier, and it was on the nature of rights- the right to act automatically includes the right not to act. In certain contexts, it is easy to conceptualize: the right to…

  • Everything I hate about schools all wrapped into one.

    I hate the stupid decisions made by [EDIT: corrected typos] school administrators, but this is egregious- to teach the kids of El Camino High in Oceanside, California that driving drunk has consequences, the school had…

  • You know...

    Probably the biggest case ever on the limits of Presidential power comes down this week, and the blawgosphere is agog about what might have been on Judge Kozinski's personal web site.Better minds than mine are…

  • Don't we have better things to do?

    More outrage, which seems to be all I have these days. Osama bin Laden is still at large; the economy is in a handbasket on its way to hell; our energy "policy" is to consume…

  • Anger and outrage

    Legal Times reports on a terrible example of how far insurance companies will go to screw plaintiffs (registration required). A hotel employee molested a young girl when her family vacationed in the US Virgin Islands.…