Monday, July 09, 2012

Are across the board appellate waivers also unethical?

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Perhaps.  Professor Berman has the story on a judge rejecting a plea deal with an appellate waiver here . From the Denver Post : They b...
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Inside baseball at SCOTUS

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Tom Goldstein has all the goods here on how SCOTUSblog got it right on Health Care day and CNN/FOX got it wrong. One thing that is totall...
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Friday, July 06, 2012

Judge Carnes...

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... starts off his latest opinion (Larry Butler vs. Sheriff of Palm Beach County) this way : In one of his ballads, Jim Croce warned tha...
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Florida Bar proposes advisory opinion re 2255 waivers

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Back in September, the Florida Bar's Professional Ethics Committee voted 13-11 that criminal defense lawyers could not ethically advise ...
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Thursday, July 05, 2012

Fourth of July

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Hope everyone had a nice holiday yesterday.  Those in San Diego were supposedly disappointed that all the fireworks for the show went off ...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Judge Cooke sides with Docs over Glocks

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Jay Weaver covers the story here : A federal judge has blocked the state of Florida from enforcing a new law pushed by fir...
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Monday, July 02, 2012

Bill Matthewman sworn in today

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Congrats to our newest Magistrate Judge. Judge Matthewman will be sitting in West Palm Beach, along with another new Magistrate -- Dave B...
Sunday, July 01, 2012

End of Term

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The Supreme Court is now on summer break till October. There are a bunch of good articles about the end of the Term, but the place to go is ...
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