Tuesday, August 11, 2020

How will Kamala Harris be on criminal justice issues?

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 It’s hard to tell.  She’s faced a ton of criticism when she was the District Attorney in San Francisco and Attorney General of California (...
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Monday, August 10, 2020

There will be no trials in the SDFLA for the rest of the year

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 It’s a pretty striking announcement. (The official order isn’t up yet, but it’s been leaked.)  And there’s no telling when we will have gra...
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Friday, August 07, 2020

RIP Ron Lowy

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 Just heard this sad news.  Ron was a super nice guy that you always saw around the courthouses and jails.  Here’s a nice article about him ...

Nice job by local FBA chapter

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 Check out t his awesome program to teach high school students advocacy and other legal and life skills.  Judges Beth Bloom and Robin Rosen...
Wednesday, August 05, 2020

Heartbreaking stories from our prisons

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The first is from Coleman ( via the Miami Herald ): Tressa Clements pressed her hand to the ICU window and spoke through her tears. “Baby...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Lawyering (and judging) during a pandemic

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Here's Judge Bob Scola, with defense lawyer Carl Kafka and Assistant State Attorney Carl Kafka Jr.,  Photo cred to Dorothy Kafka.
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Monday, August 03, 2020

Is it a good thing for the Supreme Court to be leaking?

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William Baude says yes in this Washington Post article and Josh Blackman argues no in this Newsweek piece .   Baude's intro:   Some p...
Saturday, August 01, 2020

Vanishing Trial panel

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I'm excited to be joining Rachel E. Barkow (@rachelbarkow), Kevin Ring (@KevinARing), and Clark Neily (@ConLawWarrior) for this interest...