Life sometimes gets in the way of blogging, as is the case today with me. But I want to suggest what I’ve been thinking about recently. In a nut shell it boils down to the question, “What if Judge Wolf is wrong?” The decisions of the other judges in the federal district court and in…
Month: January 2013
Aaron Swartz’s Prosecution Points To An Ongoing Great Misunderstanding By Our Federal Prosecutors As To Their Role
I had no intention of writing on this subject again until I read a statement by Orin Kerr a professor of law at George Washington University that “once the decision to charge the case had been made, the charges brought here [against Aaron Swartz] were pretty much what any good federal prosecutor would have charged.” If what…
The Whitey Bulger Lance Armstrong Dilemmas – Finding The Truth From Liars Looking For A Benefit
The New York Times’s Juliet Macur sets out many of the questions she hopes Oprah asks Lance Armstrong all arranged around the hope he will disclose the identities of all those involved in his scheme to defraud the people about his use of prohibited performance enhancing drugs. Lance is about to admit that for 20…
§16: Re-Examining Whitey Bulger: The Learning Years: Surviving Among Sharks
Whitey walked into a group of murderous guys who already had strong loyalties to others within the group. Could he hope for no more than being an outsider through the Learning Years? He and the Italians would never really be close friends. Italian and Irish gangsters are like oil and water. Their inherent love of…
Will The Untimely Death Of Aaron Swartz Make Carmen Ortiz Recognize She Too Can Commit An Injustice
You know if you are a regular reader I have trouble with some of the things done with the approval of the U.S. attorney in Boston, Carmen Ortiz. I had never heard of her before she was appointed to that post. The Patriot Ledger did an interview of her after she was sworn in. Like…
Judge Stearn vs. Judge Harrington: Why Did Prosecutor Prefer One Over The Other
I’ve been on the road a couple of days so I’ve let things slip a bit. I thought by now the three judges on the Court of Appeals would have removed Judge Stearns since it is such a simple matter. Whitey Bulger’s case is a one in a generation case, at least in the…