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Monthly Archives: August 2011
How not to conduct voir dire
How not to conduct voir dire: “Does everybody here understand that….?” “Does everyone agree that….?” “Who doesn’t want to be here today?” Those questions don’t tell you squat about a potential juror’s beliefs, attitudes, religion, way of life, or whether they will accept your theory of the case. Here’s a couple more: Joking around too [...]
Posted in voir dire
McCauliffe raises $93,833 so far
$93,833 raised so far for McCauliffe’s reelection campaign. What’s missing? Donations from criminal defense lawyers. Sure, there’s a couple of criminal defense lawyers. John Howe gave $100. Suskauers gave $150. That says something right there. Many criminal defense lawyers gave Michael money the first go around. Me too. It still remains to be seen whether [...]
Posted in McCauliffe
Warren Buffet interview
I watched Warren Buffet on Charlie Rose. Amazing interview. Here’s Warren’s New York Times op ed about how the rich should pay more in taxes. This has nothing to do directly with criminal law – other than when the economy turns around people will have more money to hire criminal lawyers. I am fascinated and inspired [...]
Posted in criminal lawyers
Criminal lawyers – in it together?
We’re in this together. It’s us against the government. A check on governmental power. Liberty’s Last Champion. That’s partially how I view our role as criminal defense lawyers. There are some, perhaps many, criminal lawyers across Florida and the nation who feel the same way. Not so much in Palm Beach county though. Started [...]
Posted in Abundance mentality