So, you have the right to bear arms and you have the right to defend yourself, but what if you arm yourself in anticipation of defending you...

Congress authorized much needed upgrades for the capital police to handle the new wave of government scandals.

Even if it gets past both hearsay and relevance objections, the proposed introduction of the rejected plea offer must have its probative va...

Professor Miller addresses the hearsay problem and makes a case for allowing the introduction of the plea agreement under an exception as in...

Colin Miller , of EvidenceProf Blog fame, sent me a link to an article he's written espousing the virtues of allowing a rejected plea ...

Colin Miller , of EvidenceProf Blog fame, sent me a link to an article he's written espousing the virtues of allowing a rejected plea ...

And they say exercising makes you live longer. What a croc. This week's selection brought to you by Scruffy.

Apparently, this is a woman in Ohio who really wanted her McNuggets and was denied their ineffable heavenliness.

There's a persistent problem with groups of Yahoos getting in a truck and driving up to a mine/train station/garage and grabbing wire/me...

For those of you who are now viewing this blawg correctly, you can thank Mark , who figured out what was wrong with it in about ten seconds ...

It's in better def than yesterdays and it doesn't cut anything off. I'm not sure why it shrinks into the black box. I'll tr...

Kyle began to suspect that bike race wasn't going to be 100% fair.

Mark has a unique problem. To judge from TV shows, you'd think that most husbands have to worry their wives seeing dead people . Howe...

Last Week's Winner: " Brandon finds out the hard way that his ex has taken a job as a police sketch artist. "

I was speaking to another lawyer about the appointment of counsel for those accused of capital murder and he pointed out to me the statutory...

Last week's winner: Please Help Timmy's stuck in the well!

I just finished going over all the cases from Virginia's appellate courts for June and there were two in which the Supreme Court of Virg...

This week it's not exactly a pic, but I still want to see who comes up with the best tagline for this:

Defense Attorney: You know, we need to teach Ken compassion. If you just had some faith in your fellow man you wouldn't want to stick th...

Per  United States v. White , JUN10,  4Cir No. 09-4114, the answer is definitively, absolutely, definitely . . . MAYBE .  Wonderful. Wh...

I've been asked to set up a name that pic on the blog, so I thought I'd try. Name that pic . . .

You too can be a Virginia State Trooper: You get a cool vehicle assigned to you (only the Virginian ones at the beginning). You get to...

Mister looking on critically as I write a post for CrimLaw.

From Florida: McWatters also argues that the trial court erred in denying his motion to disqualify the [prosecutor] for the Nineteenth Judi...