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Thursday, November 29, 2018

Witnesses do not belong to one side or the other

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I use the current situation with Mueller, Manafort, and Trump as a vehicle to discuss the issue this morning in The Hill : There has been ...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

"Mueller should not get to decide whether Manafort is lying"

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That's the title of my latest piece in The Hill .  The intro: Prosecutors call them cooperating witnesses. The rest of the criminal j...
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Monday, November 26, 2018

Trump bashes 9th Circuit for reversal rate...

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...but you know which Circuit is reversed more often? That's right, the 11th Circuit. (82% for the 11th vs. 80% for the 9th over the ...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Gorsuch and Sotomayor channel Justice Scalia

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From ScotusBlog: But one criminal case on which they did act today, involving the Sixth Amendment right to confront the prosecution’s witne...
Monday, November 19, 2018

Monday news and notes

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1.  Donald Trump made a joke about Justice Scalia’s wife being busy. Via USA Today : Amid introducing the awardees of the nation's hi...
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Friday, November 16, 2018

D’oh! Cut and paste job goes bad... charges against Assange revealed in unrelated court filing.

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The Washington Post has the story, which is every lawyer’s nightmare when they hit the file button on cm/ecf: WikiLeaks founder Julian Ass...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Miami AUSA opens in El Chapo case

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It’s AUSA Adam Fels for the prosecution.  He opened this way: “Money, drugs, murder and a vast global narcotics trafficking organization — t...
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Monday, November 12, 2018

Chuck Grassley and George Will (and lots of other GOPers) think we need sentencing reform

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Here’s The NY Times on Grassley’s push for federal sentencing reform, which now has a real shot of passing: A bipartisan group of senator...
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