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 So, it seems I have a certain cachet.  Despite being mostly retired from the active practice of law (mostly though not quite entirely; “retiredish” is the term I’ve taken to since another lawyer used it to describe my current status”), and despite this blawg having assumed much the same posture for a few years now),…

 July 5, 2005.  Kirkwood, Missouri.  Police executing a search warrant.  Joseph Long, 12 years old, suffers a seizure and collapses to the floor..  Police stepped over him – repeatedly.  Failed to offer him help.  Refused to let his mother in the house to help him.  Joseph Long died.  Kevin Johnson, Long’s older brother, stood by…

 It is Thanksgiving night.  Thanksgiving has long been my favorite holiday.  I am, as I have been since around 11 yesterday morning when I tested positive, self-isolating in the basement. My younger son and his husband, are self-isolating in the second and third bedrooms. My wife, who appears uninfected and tests negative, remains free to wander…

 Apparently I require a trigger warning.Word came down from Blogger Central early yesterday afternoon.This post was put behind a warning for readers because it contains sensitive content.You can still read it.  Anyone can still read it.  But firstYour blog readers must acknowledge the warning before being able to read the post/blog.Here’s what that looks like:Sensitive Content WarningThis…

 Two things, seemingly unrelated except in time. 

  • I am reading the transcript from the trial where my client was sentenced to be killed.
  • The great French film director Jean-Luc Godard died.

    • But the mind works as it does.  And while the transcript contains no reference to Godard or any of his films or the French…

     I have problems: I’m out of clean clothes, I cannot find my glasses, my English paper is late, and my pockets are not big enough for all the heroin I have.*That’s the first sentence of Keri Blakinger’s gobsmackingly terrific memoir, Corrections in Ink.  And if you can read that sentence and not find yourself…

    As we know,There are known knowns.There are things we know we know.We also knowThere are known unknowns.That is to sayWe know there are some thingsWe do not know.But there are also unknown unknowns,

    The ones we don’t know. 
    (From The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld, versification by Hart Seely)
    Perhaps now he knows the unknown

     I make it a rule not to write about my cases or my clients.  Partly it’s that attorney-client privilege keeps me from revealing some things.  Partly it’s that I’m not interested in the self-aggrandizing (or self-abasement).  Partly it’s just that some things are better left unsaid.  Partly it’s . . . well, who knows.  I…