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Gotta love showoff judges.

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:37:13 -0400

There is a big difference between Federal and State sentencing. In the Federal system, you cannot contract with the prosecutor for a certain sentence. Sentencing is entirely the judge’s job. How the judge arrives at a sentence is dependent upon a lot of things. First, each Federal crime has a corresponding entry in the US [...]

Update

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:20:27 -0400

The relationship between a writer and his audience is not unlike any other. Communication from both sides is important to keep things healthy. Here’s what’s up.

The 16,000 word story I posted from January through Feb, Mettle, is going to have to tie readers over for a while. As of the end of Feb I’ve been working day and night (when I’m not on set) editing my novel. This first pass edit is by far the single most important thing I can do for my writing career and it takes priority over every waking hour that I’m not at work.

The numbers game

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:46:14 -0500

833 months to life in prison. Life to life. I’ve never seen a scoresheet that high. It hasn’t been a pretty week in toiletlaw. One client just went to prison this morning because he wouldn’t cooperate, and he is so sick he will likely die there, whereas he could have had guarded medical treatment in [...]

MMM THATS GOOD SHITLAW

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:52:09 -0500

I wanted to write a lengthy diatribe venting about how much I despise this particular client. I won’t. I’ll just say you know you practice shitlaw when:A hearing date gets moved back a week, and you tell your witness a week ahead that it got moved but you didnt tell them immediately when you [...]

From one extreme to another

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:03:59 -0500

So we started last post with a healthy cry of “Death to America” after a trigger happy cop made me throw up in my mouth quite a bit with his gleeful tale of “shoot first, detain later”…to a post where the Court has stepped back a bit on Miranda, and I won’t cry DTA/Police State [...]

Mettle, (Act III, Part 2)

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:44:11 -0500

Thats me impersonating a shower mat at the tubs floor, my limbs drawn tight, shower set to magma. Hospital tag on my wrist. I cough, shake, and cough some more. Droplets sizzle and steam against my nape; water plings with seething violence against the basin around me. A milky shampoo waterfall tumbles off my hair and before my eyes, feeding the river flowing between my feet; the flow diverges into quickening streams around a pastel starfish grip-sticker. I spit dead center on the starfishs ten ring.

Post ur DTAs

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:45:45 -0500

Over at Something Awful they have a subforum named Laissez’s Faire. It’s basically a political shitposting forum filled with internet maoists, communists, radical islamists, morons, idiots, and trolls. They trolled Sarah Palin’s PAC, have a wonderful political comics thread, use the word “literally” like it’s going out of style, and occasionally are funny. They love [...]

Addiction

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:09:08 -0500

I first met Bob the bum as he rolled out a foam mat in my office buildings lobby.I was heading to a local pub for a bite to eat with four coworkers after having Friday post-work beers upstairs. We were all laughing, riding a steady buzz as we rounded the last flight of stairs leading [...]

Mettle (Act III, Part 1)

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:11:19 -0500

Fuck Viagra. With Cialis, I can actually feel my dick and my heart isnt threatening to spray the inside of my chest like a microwaved packet of ketchup.

The game of puff-puff-pass Judas and Mr. Darkus played with the kronik downstairs has melted into me and Judas playing fuck-fuck-pass with Lana. Weve both taken our turns going biblical on her with savage impunity for the vaginal sex positions. There are only two anal sex positions in this scene and hes already done the first one on Lana. My turn to fuck ass.

We have to go back to the future Marty! Its your kids! They went to law school and owe half a million in student loans!

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:19:32 -0500

A recent commenter stated:“I saw your other post. I guess I practice meconium law then. I may be a shitlawyer, but at least I don’t bite the hand that feeds me. Law school made me the person I am today.”This commenter openly linked his practice page to his comment, and I dutifully [...]

Congrats to Florida CoasTTTTal, But You Still Wont Find a Job

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:10:54 -0500

Jacksonville law students gain national respect in courtroom competitionsFlorida Coastal School of Law beats Harvard in moot court contestTTTT beats Harvard, still throat deep in debt with no job hopesI normally don’t just grab a news link and roll with it, but I wanted to get this up here. TTT and TTTT schools love this [...]

Meconium Law

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:26:17 -0500

Attorneys can get free marketing, kinda, if they agree to be part of a referral service for prepaid legal services. It’s a type of insurance that employers give employees for modest premiums. The attorneys are put on a list and when the insured needs legal help, they call the insurance company who then picks a [...]

Link to published version of Most Unclean

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:39:56 -0500

Thirst For Fire magazine. Fresh off the press!

Enjoy!

http://thirstforfire.com/2010/0210unclean.html

More on the waste of time

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:26:10 -0500

So here’s the skinny. They put out an ad asking for an associate with minimum 5 civil trials. I send them a cover letter saying “Yes I know you want 5 civil trials but I have just as much criminal trial experience, plus I can handle divorces, small commercial matters, auto accidents, etc. I would [...]

Story: Somethings Rotten In Chatsworth, accepted by a literary magazine

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:44:06 -0500

Ignavia Press is running “Something’s Rotten In Chatsworth” in their next issue.

http://www.ignaviapress.com/

Waste of time

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:02:01 -0500

Well that interview was the most soulless waste of my time. Fly all the way up here, get my hopes up, to basically get my experience dismissed since I dont have civil trial experience. I’ll put in more details later. Back to the toilet!

Books I Love

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:00:45 -0500

I always love a good book recommendation. At least three quarters of my favorite books were brought to my attention by a direct recommendation from a friend. The fine people behind the scenes at Subtle Dig were kind enough, per my request, to put together a mini-side bar in the bottom right corner of this [...]

Fate

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:00:30 -0500

When I was twenty-one, I split my palm open with a box-cutter.Not on purpose, of course. I was cutting the straps off a bundle of flyers during my night job at a newspaper plant, and the knife slipped. As soon as it happened, though mostly painless, I knew I was in trouble. I walked over [...]

Raleigh: Part 2

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:47:38 -0500

At twenty years old, neither girl was legally able to get into any bars. They knew of one bar, however, where the manager sometimes let it slide. The bar was covered in second rate graffiti like you might see in an after-school special. Walking past the windows it was clear the place was empty, Wednesday [...]