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FIRST SUNDAY

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

This is the  first Sunday without football since those hot, steamy mornings in September (August if you count pre-season). Some readers consistently send emails throughout the season trying to remind us that this is supposedly a legal blog, and they don't like reading about sports. With that in mind we turn our attention to....NBA BASKETBALL!!!!!. HA HA. Just kidding. Lets look at a subject most of us try and avoid: SENTENCING. With a new batch of judges in the REGJB, attorneys will have to again create a new calculus for each judge when advising a client about how to proceed.   "Does this judge have a particular known dislike of a particular crime?" an attorney must ask themselves. More importantly,  how does the judge handle sentencing? Some judges avowedly treat a trial as a gamble...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on January 25, 2009 (boomark / email).