ALT-0167.
Via legal-savvy
July 6th
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
"Do we really pay more than just lip service to the bedrock concept of our justice system that everyone is presumed innocent unless proven guilty?"
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Paul LaRosa, Huffington Post Journalist re the Casey Anthony verdict.
In this short article, LaRosa efficiently expresses his reaction/opinion to the verdict. Opinions like this are refreshing in the midst of the uneducated, bias, and derogatory comments that have been made since the verdict was announced yesterday. It is undoubtedbly a sad story and everyone is free to have their opinion of the verdict; but no one should forget how unique our adversarial system is and the tenets it is based on.
April 29th
11:20 AM
11:20 AM
"When I became DA, I promised that I would evaluate everything by 2 principles: does it make us safer and is it fair."
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- Cyrus Vance, Jr., New York County District Attorney
April 28th
8:31 AM
8:31 AM
"You seem to have some concerns that I may not have the evidence to convict your client. I must tell you that I do not share your concern."
— Overheard: Prosecutor to Defense Attorney. Via CrimLaw.
April 6th
6:35 PM
6:35 PM
This is what happens when you post your registered class schedule on Facebook.
Allie v. Law School: "ATTN Aspiring Law Students: Get Out Now, And Please Ignore My Hypocrisy" and other annoying nonsense
I couldn’t have said it better myself. Click on the link to see her whole post.
I get it. Lots of people are going to law school. Many have trouble finding jobs when they graduate, and some (OM-effing-G) drop out because it’s not for them.
But since when do so many lawyers/law students feel the need to send out these preemptive “If you’re thinking about law school, think…
March 25th
10:31 AM
10:31 AM
"Everything is income, except when it’s not"
— Andrew Pike, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law, quoting a non-Tax professor colleague substituting for a class.
March 23rd
6:49 PM
6:49 PM
"Fast planes and automobiles have turned us into a nation of itinerants. The tradition of families living together in one city, even under one roof, is sadly disappearing. Yet there is virtue in keeping families together, in parents who welcome their adult children under their roof. Leave it to the IRS to turn a family reunion into a taxable event."
— Henderson v. Commissioner, 143 F.3d 497 (9th Cir. 1998) (Kozinski, J., dissenting). This is from my travel expense deductions for my Federal Income Tax Class. I enjoyed the last sentence and thought I would share it.
February 23rd
12:11 PM
12:11 PM
Just got a summer internship at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Freaking out.
February 20th
4:18 PM
4:18 PM
Chief Justice Roberts walks in to a Starbucks …
Yesterday my friend and I went to the Starbucks across from school for a quick coffee break during our journal Editorial Board interviews. When we walked in, I caught a quick glance of a man who looked familiar but thought nothing of it and got in to the long line with my friend. After a few minutes I got a better look at him and realized it was Chief Justice John Roberts! I quickly pointed it out to my friend and we both started quietly freaking out like we were little girls at a Justin Bieber concert. Eventually we composed ourselves and made our way over to him, introduced ourselves, and shook his hand. He asked us what we were doing dressed up at school on a Saturday and then wished us luck on our interviews. It was a really cool experience and a great story to share with the Board at the beginning of my interviews. I still can’t get over it and I’m glad I got to meet him.
February 17th
11:52 AM
11:52 AM
"People who are dead do not say, “I am still alive” — or anything else. (Obviously for this purpose it would have made no difference whether Murdock had said, “I am dead.”) If Arthur Murdock had said this — and the jury could so believe by weighing the testimony of Deputy Linden, who was subject to cross-examination — then he was alive at the time."
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Estate of Murdock, 32 Muc. 352 (1983).
Interesting quote from my Evidence reading and fitting for my “Introduction to Hearsay.”
Texas Man Denied $1.4 million Compensation After Being Wrongfully Convicted Because of Glitch
Apparently Anthony Graves has been denied $1.4 million of compensation after being wrongfully imprisoned for 18 years because the judge’s order dismissing the charges did not include the words “actual innocence.” Surely this should be remedied because if it is not then it would certainly be another miscarriage of justice against this innocent man.
