This post won’t be about the courts or crime—so please keep reading. Something struck me the other day I wanted to share. I saw the new film Danny Collins with Al Pacino and Annette Benning. It’s a great film and both of the actors do a great job. I was especially impressed by how Pacino has aged but …
There have been lots of studies about the effects on the human mind when people kill others. There are the effects on soldiers in war. Or, the guards in Nazi concentration camps. Here is a great study about the effects of murder on your brain—if you’re a criminal! The study is kind of technical, but I found it …
My client was guilty! No question about it. Seventeen year old, Jim, found his wife in bed with another man. Jim went beserk and kicked the other man out but did worse to his wife–he strangled her around the throat with his hands. Then, trying to avoid detection, he spray-painted her body in gang grafitti, and dumped her …
It’s the question I get all the time: How can you defend someone you know is guilty? Especiall if it’s a horrible crime. It’s easy to reply “it’s my job,” “everyone has a right to a trial,” “I have an ethical duty…blah, blah, blah.” All true but there’s the human part of every lawyer that is repulsed by …
In San Francisco, Ellen Pao sued her former employer, venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins alleging sex bias in the hi tech industry. The case went to a long trial, but in the end the jury rejected all of Ms. Pao’s claims. See article in the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/technology/ellen-pao-kleiner-perkins-case-decision.html?_r=0 What does the verdict tell us about the state …
How many of you have served on jury duty and gone through the jury selection process?
Do you remember questions by the lawyers? Was it interesting? Probably boring?!!
Before a trial starts, several people are chosen from a pool of jurors. Those people will decide the outcome of the trial. But first, the group must be “whittled-down” to …
Many people have asked me about how to write settings in stories, that is where the story is placed. Especially, for foreign locations how do you write accurately about those places?
Luckily, with the Internet and Google maps, it’s a lot easier than it was. Here are the things I use for setting my stories someplace other than …
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