Simple Justice
Commentary about the law, courts and life, from an old defense lawyer's point of view.
Author: Scott H. Greenfield, a New York City criminal defense lawyer "for way too long."
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Trials & Litigation • States • New York • Solo / Small Firm • Blawg 100 • Private Defense
Recent Posts from Simple Justice
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The Path of Least Resistance
We all have darn good reasons for what we do. At least they seem darn good to us. At least they seem darn good to us at the moment. It tends to be the path…
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Just A Diligent Kinda Officer
The continuation of the contempt hearing for Adam Stoddard, Maricopa County's finest, was held yesterday before Judge Gary Donahoe, although much of it happened without prying eyes after he closed the courtroom at the insistence…
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We Almost Made It To 5
As Doug Berman notes, the 5th birthday of the Supreme Court's Booker decision is approaching. Ah, it seems like only yesterday that the Sentencing Guidelines were mandatory and any defendant who didn't rat was going…
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If Only Half True
With all the wrong that appears from the surface of the American criminal justice system, the stuff that can be seen, occasionally appears on videotape so that the deniers can't deny, none of it compares…
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Prosecutorial Indiscretion
Whether it's by way of charging authority, as under the pre-Booker Sentencing Guidelines, or plea bargaining policy, prosecutors want more than to merely charge a defendant. They want to impose their ideal of justice, leaving as little discretion…
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An Unsuccessful Conversion to the Cause
The office phone rings. Caller ID says "NRA". Nonetheless, I pick it up. I'm calling from the NRA with a poll about how the United Nations wants to eliminate gun possession in the United States. I…
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Save the Connecticut 5?
Carolyn Elefant is pissed. That doesn't happen too often, so it's certainly worthy of attention when it does. At My Shingle, Carolyn asks why the blawgosphere hasn't erupted in outrage at the persecution of the…
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Just Part of the Crowd
The Richmond Rape, in which a 15 year old girl was gang raped for more than two hours in front of crowd of fellow high school students, has received surprisingly little attention in the blawgosphere. Not…
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The Poisoned Water of Maricopa County (Update)
Not that there hasn't been enough about Phoenix lawyers around here lately, but when Nick Martin of Heat City posted a video of a detention officer Adam Stoddard, during a sentence in Maricopa County Superior Court,…
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A Naked Boulder Rolls Downhill (And A Related Twit)
Via Radley Balko, the good people of Boulder, Colorado, can sleep well on Halloween, secure in the knowledge that human genitalia will not be flailing about, demeaning the sensibilities of those without any. For nearly…