A Public Defender
A Public Defender has posts about about criminal law, recent opinions and proposed legislation, sometimes with a Connecticut focus.
Author: The author identifies himself as "Gideon," after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright holding that lawyers must be provided for indigent criminal defendants. He also authors the blawg Public Defender Stuff.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Public Defenders • Criminal Procedure • States • Connecticut • Anonymous • Public Defender
Recent Posts from A Public Defender
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Wednesday is Sunday stupidity
Because I got nothin’, I give you this video. Lolcat FTW. Click here to view the embedded video.
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Non sum qualis eram
From the NYTimes comes this heartwarming story of one of the nation’s elite universities privately funding an educational program in one of CT’s toughest prisons. Starting this year, Wesleyan brings its excellent curriculum and stringent…
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Another conviction reversed: Exhibit n for no prosecutorial immunity
In what is becoming routine, another conviction was reversed this past week in New York, this one too based on the eyewitness testimony of 5 individuals. This, though, isn’t the usual case of mistaken ID…
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Life on the inside: an inmate’s view
For two months now, the Ann Arbor chronicle has been publishing the Washtenaw Jail Diary, a series of chapters by a former inmate at that jail, chronicling his life behind bars and his experiences. Interestingly,…
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Title bout in GA: death penalty vs. no money
This seems to have been a week of heavyweight fights. Last night some guy named Pacquaio rearranged the face of some dude named Cotto and earlier in the week, in the state of “even Brian…
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So long, farewell, don’t let the door hit you on your way out
[Alternate post titles: So long and thanks for all the blog fodder; This just in: The Law now has a weak pulse] So, it’s probably unnatural and unhealthy to be so giddy upon learning that…
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Cross racial, gender Epic Fail
trying to figure out? H/T: 4th, via who else
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This I believe
Man is neither inherently good nor bad. I believe that we act in ways because we are, for whatever reason, compelled to do so. I believe that we, as a society, need to assign labels…
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From the Ministry of “It has to sink in eventually, right?”
The Death Penalty Information Center, in keeping with its tireless mission of boldly going where no man has gone before abolishing the death penalty has yet another “why didn’t I think of that!” report out…
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Drunk driving is different
Ordinarily, on a criminal law blog, the words “is different” would usually be preceded by the word “death” and an accompanying rant about the futility of the death penalty and the special standards to be…