You’ve seen the videos and you are shocked. Tyre Nichols was stopped by Memphis police officers, dragged from his car, and savagely beaten by police officers. When he fled, they chased him. He was hunted down, beaten some more as he screamed nightmarishly for his mother, and then left to succumb to his injuries as officers milled about.
The officers involved have been fired and charged with serious crimes: murder and kidnapping among them.
It’s simply another case of police brutality, a shocking disregard of the basic rights of black...
January 29, 2023
The so-called Proud Boys trial has finally started. A jury of twelve and three alternatives heard a half day of evidence last week. This week, the Government will present as many as a dozen more witnesses. In the weeks to come, a jury will hear evidence about the extent to which, if at all, the five defendants on trial planned to use force or otherwise planned to disrupt the certification of electoral college votes by Congress on January 6, 2021. I represent one of the defendants, Joe Biggs.
How much, if anything at all, can I say about the ongoing proceedings?
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January 15, 2023
On the ninth day of jury selection in the case of United States of America v. Joseph Biggs, et al, otherwise known as the Proud Boys insurrection case, my law license was suspended for six months by the same Connecticut judge who presided over the judicial train wreck involving Alex Jones and Sandy Hook families. It cast into doubt my ability to continue on the Biggs case, which is pending in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Biggs wants me at counsel table. He has a Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice. So we filed emergency paper work in the federal court in D.C., where we are in trial; in...
January 13, 2023
As a few snark hunters have noted with glee in comments to posts on this page, I've been suspended from the practice of law for six months. So I am to pulling this blog page, steeped, as it is, in reference to my lawyerly days. (Or, I should say, I've asked my webmaster to pull this page; I am not sure how long that will take.)
I've moved to a new blog site, called Law and Legitimacy. It is hosted on Locals!
I haven't been all that active here in recent years. My interest in blogging comes and goes. But with all this time on my hands in the next few months, I suspect I'll resume...
January 7, 2023
December 6, 2022
I've now viewed Ye's appearance on Alex Jones in it its entirety. (You can view it on Banned.Video; as of this writing, it has been viewed almost 5.3...
February 24, 2021
The best thing about the pandemic? I’ve discovered podcasts. One of the best is Lex Fridman’s, called, simply, Lex Fridman...
December 28, 2022
Some books are so good, you can read them twice, each time with profit. I don't often reread non-fiction, but in the case of Dean Strang's wonderful...
December 3, 2022
The other day I raised what I consider to be the dishonest rhetoric involving white supremacism. If you're white and you disagree with a person of...
June 20, 2021
Among the world’s mysteries is the transformation of naked power into authority. Yes, from time immemorial, there have been those...
June 12, 2022
What we need is another Kerner Commission, and what we’re being offered is a Watergate Committee. The result will be a committee that...