CrimLaw

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Orin Kerr, the gentleman kind enough to mention this site on the Volokh Conspiracy has left the blogging world to work at the Federal Supreme Court. Good Luck.

BTW, Orin, if you are still reading the blawg please do those of us who practice criminal law the great favor of convincing as many people up there as possible that short, simple, non-multi-part decisions are what those of us in the trenches need. A 40 page plurality, two 20 page concurrences, two 20 page dissents, and one 40 page destruction of the plurality may be very scholarly, fun for lawyers to read, and try to cover every possible angle (of course never succeeding). However, one simply cannot stand in a General District Court - where the judge has maybe 10 minutes allotted for your case -, plunk down a 100+ page decision in front of the judge, and argue how section I.A(3) of the plurality combined with section II.D(1) of the first concurrence and IV.B(6) of the second concurrence means that this pretext stop violates the rights of the Defendant.

Well, I guess you could try (if you were never, ever going to appear in that courthouse again in your lifetime).

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