Criminal Law

If poverty tends to criminalize people, it is also true that criminalization inexorably impoverishes them.

Posted on August 10, 2009
If you read one thing today, let it be this perfect Times Op-Ed called Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor? In it, the incomparable BARBARA EHRENREICH observes:""The viciousness of the official animus toward the indigent can be breathtaking. A few years ago, a group called Food Not Bombs started handing out free vegan food to hungry people in public parks around the nation...

40,000 to be released in CA

Posted on August 06, 2009
What a perfect synopsis: The massive 750% increase in the California prison population since the mid-1970s is the result of political decisions made over three decades, including the shift to inflexible determinate sentencing and the passage of harsh mandatory minimum and three-strikes laws, as well as the state?s counterproductive parole system...

Where do these people get their "facts"

Posted on July 30, 2009

The Bridge:

Posted on July 10, 2009
Finally...Roadside Camp for Miami Sex Offenders Leads to Lawsuit

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Pick A Number: What does Madoff get?

Posted on June 27, 2009
Thanks to the promptings of my friend Randy, I've been thinking about the Madoff sentencing...Here's the problem as I see it. The magnitude of his crimes are virtually unprecedented, and his lifespan is quite short, so in truth I think that almost all of these discussions are academic...

Bail for NJ Blogger Accused of Threatening Judges - NYTimes.com

Posted on June 25, 2009
No Bail for NJ Blogger Accused of Threatening Judges

We Find the Defendant Not Guilty (if That's O.K. With Everyone) - New York Times

Posted on June 22, 2009
It's kind of funny to look back at this piece as we, in the RTB writer's room begin to ponder our season finale (RTB 215). I suppose it's a nice metric by which to judge one's own show. I wrote this for the New York Times back in January of 2006.....

Iconic (literally someone made these)

Posted on June 17, 2009

Jerry Kellerman (jerrykellerman) on Twitter

Posted on June 15, 2009
Just for fun, you can follow .Jerry Kellerman (jerrykellerman) on Twitter

RTB Season Two Premieres Tonight!

Posted on June 08, 2009
Tune in for Season Two of Raising the Bar10 PM on TNT!And leave comments below to let me know what you think.I look forward to any and all of them...

Funny...

Posted on May 13, 2009

Jail Term Sought in Medical Marijuana Case - NYTimes.com

Posted on April 23, 2009
Government lawyers are expected to ask a federal judge to impose a five-year sentence on the owner of a marijuana dispensary.H. Marshall Jarrett, the director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, on Friday sent a letter to United States Attorney Thomas P...

What Music Should Be...

Posted on April 13, 2009
No reason to post this, except that the Counting Crows Rock just totally rock the house...

Moses is Departing Egypt: A Facebook Haggadah

Posted on April 02, 2009
Hat tip to my friend Mitch who sent me this brilliant bit

More Repulsive Tripe from Caitlin Flanagan

Posted on March 21, 2009
In this Op-Ed Caitlin Flanagan (voted one of MSN's 13 Women who make us cringe) is once again cringe-worthy with this absurd argument about Sarah Jane Olsen. As usual she gets it back-asswards cloaking her argument for forcing SJO to serve her parole in California in the rhetoric of racial equality...

Most Immigrants In Detention Do Not Have Criminal Records

Posted on March 15, 2009
"The data show that 18,690 immigrants had no criminal conviction, not even for illegal entry or low-level crimes like trespassing. More than 400 of those with no criminal record had been incarcerated for at least a year. A dozen had been held for three years or more; one man from China had been locked up for more than five years...

RTB en Italia...

Posted on March 15, 2009
I came across a listing for "Avvocati a New York" And what it is? Yep, RTB.Here's the awesome auto translation of the description..."The series tells the stories of private and professional group of young lawyers of the Big Apple, the court rivals, but friends in private life...

Barbie Party...

Posted on March 10, 2009
Fun. But over by 10.

Top Judge in Texas Closes Early to Insure Execution...

Posted on March 07, 2009
Evil judge KellerAnd what kind of Judge is she? In 1998, she wrote the opinion rejecting a new trial for Roy Criner, a mentally retarded man convicted of rape and murder, even though DNA tests after his trial showed that it was not his semen in the victim...

Here comes the DVD...

Posted on February 27, 2009

Judges get paid to incarcerate kids...

Posted on February 15, 2009
No really. It's true.

Fox News Producer's Arrest Warant

Posted on February 10, 2009
Oops, looks like it's for child porn

ColorLine's 2009's Innovators

Posted on January 14, 2009
Guess who made the list? You guessed it. The Bronx Defenders!

Finger Puppet Palin

Posted on January 06, 2009
Yes we Can!

Thank you Canada...

Posted on January 04, 2009
So it seems we're getting a very warm reception in the dead of winter north of the border.This, today's nice nod from the Globe and Mail...CTV Raising the Bar (Jan. 9) Shades of Perry Mason: There are still signs of life in the TV legal drama. First broadcast on the U...

Amen!

Posted on January 01, 2009
What a perfect wish for 2009. Thanks New York Times!

The wisdom of pardons -

Posted on December 24, 2008
This first person account highlights both the importance of pardons and the continuing tragedy of Bush's failure to use them.

Defiance Rocks...

Posted on December 23, 2008
img src="http://images.apple.com/moviesxml/s/paramount_vantage/posters/defiance_l200802011259.jpg"br /br /I just watched the screener of a href="http://www.defiancemovie.com/"DEFIANCE,/a and it's terrific. Nothing I love more than some bad-assed fighting jews, struggling with moral questions in a forrest during the second world war...

I guess we're headed to Canada

Posted on December 20, 2008
a href="http://channelcanada.com/Article2584.html" RAISING THE BAR Premieres Fri., Jan. 9 on CTV/abr /br /Kinda cool eh?

The most hilarious christmas song ever...

Posted on November 28, 2008
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