Tuesday, May 23, 2017

The Texas #judgeJamesOakley who publicly incited through a Facebook post to lynch a black criminal defendant remained on the bench with a slap on the wrist and an order of "racial sensitivity training"

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On this blog, I frequently cover stories from all over the United States showing that judges did not only give themselves an illegal gift of...

Time sheet scandals prove there is no such thing as making high-ranking employees close to the judicial system accountable for misconduct and even crimes - Part IV of public comment regarding proposed New York mandatory discovery rule in criminal proceedings

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Falsifying time sheets may be a misdemeanor or a felony, depending on how much in unearned public money was stolen.  For example, recent...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Immigration lawyers' lawsuit against the Trump administration - fighting for lawyers' right to NOT represent clients in the entire proceeding, and claiming to do that for the benefit of those same clients. Come again?

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There is a hilarious piece in "Above the Law" by their staff writer Joe Patrice, who reportedly has 11 years of litigation experi...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

Next time you are mugged in New York City, ask the City Hall why it criminally prosecutes people for honestly earning a living as street vendors of small everyday items

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In July of 2015 President Obama has raised the issue whether proliferant occupational licensing in the U.S. is stifling the country's ec...

How Federal Judge Margo K. Brodie cheated an indigent civil rights plaintiff out of his day in court in a case where the defendant was the judge's own former client

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There is this federal statute, the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. 1983. It has been enacted by the U.S. Congress. It gives people who belie...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Pro-prosecution change of venue in Ken Paxton's trial - Part II: a media admonition for Ken Paxtonl: don't shop for a judge when he is an Inn of Court's puppet and is in the prosecution's pocket

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In my previous blog I described an unprecedented decision by a judge to move the trial, over a defendant's objection, to another county ...