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Monday, January 02, 2006

VERDICT ON SENSELESS SENTENCING...B..O..R..I..N...G!

The verdict was unanimous: our post on Senseless Sentencing and the problems with minimum mandatory sentencing was boring.
Point taken.
We bear the responsibility for trying (unsuccessfully) to write on what we perceive to be a serious problem that is wrecking peoples lives.

Here are the comments we received:


Anonymous gets to the point:

you need to learn how to write in nice easy to read short posts. borrrrring.

A quipster quips:

From 13 Steps To Successful Blogging:8) Short & Concise .

And here is our personal favorite: short and to the point:

"zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"


On the poll on the Judges Schwartz and their opposition,

Anonymous thinks:

The poll on judges might be somewhat distorted because it does not include "ethnic politics" as category.

Rumpole responds: Point well taken. Both Judges have opposition from Hispanic females.

On the Trial Lawyers Bill of Rights, we received these missives:

Anonymous wrote:

good idea - but you forget that the judges are tied to the 4 horsemen of the apocolypse-you know who they are. you think the division judges come up with these ideas (except for the wholly evil ones) on their own?judges are like private lawyers - they realize that getting caught in trial is the worst thing that can happen - so they make it difficult.

Rumpole Responds. We take offense at the idea that the worst thing that can happen to a privately retained attorney is to be "caught" in trial. We recognize that there are many attorneys who, after getting paid, are looking to settle the case. We believe you get what you pay for. However, there are many well qualified private defense attorneys who can try a case, and enjoy doing it. Clients looking to hire an attorney are truly immersed in a laissez faire capitalistic system, which is as it should be. We hope that word travels fast about those attorneys who are afraid or otherwise unwilling to try a case. More troubling is the issue of judges who do not want to try a case. That is what they are getting paid for. Having been around quite some time, we are very certain that the number of cases being tried today is probably exponentially more than the number of jury trials 20 years ago. And just like attorneys who do not want to pick a jury, word travels fast about those judges who have 2pm tee times, or spa appointments, or whatever

And finally, that famous Federal Blogger, he who reads not only the briefs and slip opinions, but also the committee notes (where do you even find those?) on those obscure and obtuse federal statutes, Mr. David O. Marcus, saw fit to write:

good post on the trial lawyers' bill of rights.
happy new year.

Rumpole Responds: after that beating we took on our long sentencing post, we will take priase wherever and whenever we can get it. Thanks.

See You In Court.

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