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The headline of this piece alone will prompt a spike in readership of this page. Gerry Spence casts a long shadow. He has admirers from one coast to coast. Silent lovers will ponder these words and write secret notes to others. They will ask. Is it true?
Is Gerry Spence dead?
He stepped...

A representative of the ABA is making the telephone rounds of the state chatting people up about whether United States District Court Judge Robert Chatigny has a temperament suitable for a promotion to the United States Court of Appeals. The answer is obvious: Hell no.
I'll have more to say on...

Mike Cernovich called one day in 2005. Did I want to write for a blog page he created called Crime and Federalism? My response was simple: "What's a blog?"
Mike and I wrote for a couple of years and page had a modest popularity. He still writes under the banner, although his interests are now...

Alexandra Natapoff's new book on the use of informants in criminal proceedings is a must read. Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice, (New York University Press, 2009) It is not that she tells us anything new and really startling; what impresses is that she has managed...

Legal blogs come and go. Here's a new one to check out: http://raysipsa.blogspot.com. Tell him Norm sent you.

Can a godless man conceive of sin? Frankly, I don't see why not; although I confess a healthy respect for God might help enliven the sense of one's transgressions. But sin as a sense of transgressing boundaries, however those boundaries are set, is alive and well.
I've been struggling of late...

There was grumbling a plenty in my household this morning.
"What about me?" Penelope growled, as she leaped onto me and began licking my nose.
"And me,too. C'mon, Dad." Odysseus's eyes are two sweet dew drops.
These dogs greeted me as they do each morning, with a frenzy that belies the...

I moan a lot and rarely speak well of the things I love, at least not in public. It is easier somehow to show a dark streak than it is to share what little light I possess. So I'll try something new here. Let me greet the new year by publicly giving thanks.
First and foremost: I have a...

The security police have been busy this holiday season. Why just yesterday, Special Agent Robert Flaherty turned up on the doorstep of a blogger with what purported to be a subpoena and threatened the blogger with arrest if he did not reveal the source of information posted on the blogger's web...

"When planning a purchase to buy or build a new home, the first place a parent needs to research is the registered sex offender registry site provided by the government. It is free. The following link will show you detailed information on sex offenders who reside in your neighborhood. Be sure to...