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Indefensible

The intermittent musings of a pedantic public defender
By David Feige

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Last Entry: March 08, 2011 at 14:03:00

Posted on August 31, 2008
Who Knew The New York Post Cares about what I Read?"IN MY LIBRARY: DAVID FEIGEWe all remember what Steven Bochco did for the image of New York cops (they look like Dennis Franz); now he's turned his attention to New York lawyers and public defenders (they look like a long-haired Mark-Paul Gosselaar)...

Bikers and barristers | Philadelphia Inquirer | 08/31/2008

Posted on August 31, 2008
"Everyone on this show is ambitious and overworked. They're all trying to make the best of a legal system that is irretrievably broken, a bureaucracy that continually misses the forest for the thorny underbrush.On Raising the Bar, urban criminal law is a blind and brutal assembly line covered with tears and blood...

They're coming fast and furious...

Posted on August 29, 2008
Steven Bochco is still intent on raising the bar - The Los Angeles Times

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Warriors for Justice - WSJ?

Posted on August 29, 2008
Interesting that the Wall Street Journal sees it this way...

The good, the bad and the ugly...

Posted on August 22, 2008
Well this guy thinks that Raising the Bar may be the worst show I have seen in the 2+ years I have been writing this column. John Leonard ain't much happier: "Raising the Bar is professional television, but no more than that." But out there somewhere is a mom who "will be tuning in this Fall along with my husband who enjoyed watching it...

Just 'Cause I can't Help It...

Posted on August 20, 2008

More Cool Press...

Posted on August 20, 2008
What do you do when the entire culture thinks you're a bunch of crappy lawyers in bad suits who can't get better jobs?Change the culture. Tell the people. This one makes me proud...Mark-Paul Gosselaar got a real-life dose of the public defender's world before assuming the role on TV, in Steven Bochco's TNT "Raising the Bar" series that debuts Sept...

MPG, JB & Me...

Posted on August 20, 2008
The Wisconsin State Journal (more on that soon) dug up this picture of me on the set...

Let the Reviews Begin...

Posted on August 20, 2008
Ok, sorry to be such a crappy blogger of late. I've been packing up my west coast apartment, and moving back to NYC (with an absolutely amazing trip to Paris and Namibia in between). But I'm back, getting settled in the old apartment, picking up at the law school, and watching as the RTB tide begins to rise...

Crimes and Misdemeanors...

Posted on July 27, 2008
This interactive Venn diagram from slate allows you to see the case for the prosecution of Bush Administration officials. Mouse over a person's name for information on how each person is involved. Mouse over the title of each circle for specifics about the particular scandal...

Steven Says...

Posted on July 18, 2008
So now that I've got a little more time (the show wraps tomorrow), I'll be a little better about blogging and linking to show related stuff like the little interview below.TCA Video: Bochco on ?Raising the Bar? - TVWeek - News

This you gotta see!

Posted on July 18, 2008

Off with her leg!

Posted on July 18, 2008
In 2006 an inmate?s leg was amputated after an infection beneath a cast went untreated. Read the charming details in the federal report on the Poor Conditions at Cook County Jail.

I look like who?

Posted on July 17, 2008
The RTB media train is just getting into gear...And what better place to start than with this piece from St. Louis that says I look like Patrick Warburton, and this hilarious photo from the red (actually orange carpet. What I truly love about this photo is the caption...

Customs can look through your laptop just for fun

Posted on July 17, 2008
I'm not kidding. According to this decision from the 9th circuit, they can look at anything they want without probable cause.

This is the real Gitmo

Posted on June 16, 2008
A prison filled with the wrong men

One Way to Solve the Deficit Crisis...

Posted on June 10, 2008
Man accused of trying to cash check for 360 Billion dollars

400,000 weed arrests in the last 10 years...

Posted on June 03, 2008

Charitable Giving...

Posted on May 29, 2008
As you know, I generally only put in plugs for The Bronx Defenders, my alma mater and the finest public defender office in the world, but today, a quick departure from that general rule to encourage readers to donate to Peter Wagner's Prison Policy Initiative, an impressive organization devoted to exposing the social costs of our prison policy...

Dancing on the graves of the poor

Posted on May 24, 2008
Want to know what judges do when they're thinking about getting elected? They slam poor people convicted of crimes.A study in Pennsylvania by Gregory A. Huber and Sanford C. Gordon found that ?all judges, even the most punitive, increase their sentences as re-election nears,? resulting in some 2,700 years of additional prison time, or 6 percent of total prison time, in aggravated assault, rape and robbery sentences over a 10-year period...

We Rock Estonia

Posted on May 23, 2008
This from the hollywood reporter: "Olle Mirme, director of programming and acquisitions at Kanal 2 in Estonia, liked the new Steven Bochco-produced legal drama "Raising the Bar" Very Nice.

Left in her cell for four days...

Posted on May 22, 2008
An innocent woman who was left in a courthouse cell for four days won't be prosecuted. Wow. Seriously here's the announcement : A woman who was forgotten in a courthouse holding cell for four days without food or water will not be prosecuted on the charge that landed her there, a prosecutor in Fayetteville said...

A whirlwind...

Posted on May 14, 2008
Jets, stars, green rooms and sweet suites.The last 24 hours have been astonishing. I sat on the floor of the Hammerstein Ballroom under a massive screen and watched TNT's "Upfront" presentation this morning. The upfront is where the network sells ad-space on their upcoming shows and so it's also where they previewed our show...

You wonder why they hate the police...

Posted on May 06, 2008
This interesting piece in the New York Times claims that newly released data Shows an Increase in Street Stops. That alone is interesting, but here's the bit that gets me:The 145,098 stops from January through March ? up from 134,029 during the same quarter a year earlier ? led to 8,711 arrests...

Worth Watching...

Posted on May 01, 2008

Report: 400,000 weed arrests...

Posted on April 30, 2008
Finally a report documenting what we've all known about for years: The absurd flood of weed cases, many of which are charged as misdemeanors rather than violations because the cops coaxed someone into giving up the joint rather than discovering it during a search...