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This is a true story. The names of the characters involved have not been changed to protect the innocent or guilty. I know the story is true because it happened to me. Of all days of the year it was on St. Patrick’s Day  March 17, 2019, a Sunday. It was a warm Sunday morning and…

I believed Christine Blasey Ford when she testified that Brett M. Kavanaugh assaulted her in high school. I was skeptical about Kavanaugh’s denial. Maybe the booze dimmed his memory. If it was no more than juvenile high jinks it left no impression. Maybe not being a victim lends to forgetfulness. Reading over my prior posts…

The Washington Post editorial board on March 25, 2019, at 7:30 p.m. posted an opinion titled, “What the U.S. can learn from the fight against the Islamic State.” Unfortunately the lesson it tells us we should learn is all wrong. To cut to the core it is that the United States should not get into any…

One of the great miscarriage in American justice was the fix put in for Jeffrey Epstein accused of raping and sexually molesting young girls by a US attorney who is now Trump’s secretary of labor.  Trump, a long-term buddy of Epstein, apparently has no trouble that his labor secretary schemed to help this child molester…

Having done many, many investigations as a prosecutor and a few as a defense lawyer I wondered why anyone suggested that you need an underlying crime to have an obstruction of justice crime. I could not answer it based on my experience as a defense lawyer because I was defending someone accused of a crime…

I was chatting with a friend about happenings in the world. Our conversation centered around lamenting the decline of Western ideals in some foreign nations. We looked at different countries that seem to have strongmen taking over and how they outlaw dissension,  pack the courts and curtail some of the freedoms we accept. I mentioned…