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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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…
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I’d probably run
Over the last three months or so, I’ve twice had the experience of riding the elevator with a client. There’s nothing out of the ordinary about riding the elevator with the client, but these two…
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CT Supreme Court to act like the big boys
After years of hearing cases in panels, the CT Supreme Court announced today that it would start acting like a Supreme Court and have all 7 justices decide each case. Instead of only a panel…
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Ineffective Assistance in action
Via an anonymous PD, here is a transcript of some truly atrocious lawyering by a public defender in Virginia. Read it for yourself.
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Maybe she’s in advertising?
Isn’t that what they say about advertising? You repeat things three times so people get it? Either that or she misunderstood the import of King Bruce’s lesson.
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Sunday stupidity: beaten by a chair edition
Click here to view the embedded video.
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The Fourth Amendment takes the red pill
And down the rabbit hole we go, with United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing (aka the MLB steroid case). The decision brings fourth amendment and technology into version 2.0, otherwise called the digital age by…