June 16th

June 26, 2012 Books
Last Saturday was Bloom’s day. Yes, I bet some of you missed it, so mark it on your calendar for next year. I took the day off to celebrate the...

Hubbart FACDL

May 21, 2012 Criminal Defense
On Saturday May 12, 2012 I had the pleasure of presenting the FACDL life time achievement award to my former boss Phillip Hubbart. I have written of him before in...

The Classical Art of Memory

April 10, 2012 Memory
There was a time when human memory systems were treasured and cultivated. The technology of memorization was taught in the rhetoric classes and was deemed to be integral to public...

Concreteness

April 2, 2012 Aesop's Fables
I am always on the lookout for a fresh and unique way of describing something, especially when it can take it from abstract to concrete. Here is one from today's...

Sins of the Father…. Part 2

January 27, 2012 Appeals
In my last post I criticized Justice Scalia for the last sentence of his dissent in the Maples case. “Because a faithful application of those precedents leads to the conclusion...

Big Win in the 11th Circuit

January 19, 2012 Appeals
Dr. Robert Ignasiak was charged in a 54-count indictment with health care fraud and illegally dispensing controlled substances. He was found guilty and sentenced to 292 months' imprisonment. The opinion...