A reply to Professor Miller's article on the participation of judges in plea negotiations.
If you want to read the article yourself you can find it here.
Adopting the Old Rule as the New
When I became a lawyer I don't recall being told that I lost my 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech. However, it appears that the Virginia Bar has decided that ...
The 2009 Virginia Medical Examiner's report is online and these are the 5 counties with the highest percentage of drug deaths ...
This is from early this year at the University of David A. Clarke Law School. It was a symposium titled "Life After the War on Drugs." ...
Indeed, in CT, in our "Part A" courts (serious felonies only), all pre-trials are judicial pretrials, meaning they are conducted in the presence of a judge. This is actually beneficial and I'll explain it in a post. Also, these judges are only presiding judges and not our trial judges. They don't preside over trials.