I'm walking through the narrow hallway outside the general district courtroom (misdemeanor court) and the entire way is lined with defe...

As long as I've been practicing law every courthouse I've been to has declined to schedule jury trials on election days. When I was...

Every time I watch something like this I find myself saying "No that's not right"; "Wait that's not how that w...

I walk in to listen to part of a civil jury trial going on in Circuit Court. Apparently, the judge had on the previous day indicated that h...

This day was a couple hours of driving followed by attendance at the West Michigan Whitecaps game. They were hosting the Bowling Green (Ky)...

The day started out with another drive through the farmlands of Michigan. For the majority of this the land was flat but toward the end ther...

Day six started by walking out to my car and seeing that someone had destroyed one of my hubcaps. I'm not sure if they broke it trying...

I got to Lansing an hour earlier than check in was allowed at my motel and it was raining, so I went off to the nearest bowling alley and ...

This was something of a down day. I slept in a bit and the big event of the day was going out to The Ponds at Lakefront, a disc golf course ...

Apparently, I pre-paid for parking when I bought my ticket to watch the Detroit Tigers, but forgot about it. I pulled into the first parking...

Day Two: I drove to Columbus to watch the Columbus Crew S.C. play the New York Red Bulls. It was the first soccer game I'd gone to since...

So, vacation was going to start Thursday at noon when the office closed for the 4th of July holiday. As I'm sure all of you know and hav...

Well, I am now officially trained on how to do juries. I'll never lose another case and I now have extra case law to quote to judges as...

Okay, so there was no post for training day 4 because I was involved in learning some very important facts. I learned that there is a ver...

Back at it today. Lessons learned so far: (1) There's a really nice disc golf course in Williamsburg, & (2) you cannot get to the s...

Okay, so they put us up at the Great Wolf Lodge which looks like an awesome family vacation spot.  It has water slides and mini-bowling and...

Not been posting much on here lately for several reasons. Mainly because I have been filling my spare time with a concerted effort (1) to i...

I've heard the Miranda one too many times to count.

Previous years: 2010 , 2011(A) , 2011(B) , and 2014 . I thought I'd look to see where our death rates from overdoses are and found ...

I know that I don't usually post personal stuff on the blawg, but I'm more than a little peeved/perplexed/ upset right now and I hav...

Shortly after sending this letter I was terminated. Not exactly sure why . . .

Okay, so one of the things I do when I get stressed or bored is plot out potential vacations. I almost never get to take them, but I am det...

In a stunningly senseless act of non-understanding, the federal government is going to try to force drug courts to give drugs to participan...

Last week, I saw a bondsman answering a show cause.  The defendant had been found  guilty, sentenced, and given a delayed date to self repo...

Did you know that police officers have a safe job? Apparently, a number of talking heads do. Or, at least it seems that way on some of the...

Gil buried a smile as he watched the prosecutor arguing with the judge. Five minutes earlier, he started Monday morning by telling the judge...

And other ways to get out early:

What is wrong with these people?  Gil sat in his motel room eating dinner as he thought over the verdicts. Everyone in the courtroom knew...