Damien Echols has written a book about his experiences with the criminal justice system and death row to excellent reviews. He has been doing the interview circuit and tonight I...

I waited a while to write this post about Bill Clinton’s speech to the DNC. I wanted to wait and ruminate on it rather than praise it just because I...

I have written several times about the first minute of an opening, a final argument or a public speech. The sad fact is that people stop listening quickly if you...

Roy Black comments on the arrest of Robyn Gardner’s boyfriend Richard Forester, after she is reported missing in Aruba.

There is something about this film, I can’t stop telling people to see it. It is unbelievable. One of a kind. Thrilling. It sends chills down your spine. Literally. What...

How do you understand people? What they are thinking? How to see into their minds, all those coils of brain matter, with thoughts flashing between the nerve endings? How to...

Joe Cocker has lost it. The decades of drinking, drug abuse and smoking have destroyed his once iconic voice. Tonight I went to a double feature at The Greek Theater...

I took a pilgrimage of sorts today. Nothing arduous like hiking to Jerusalem or Mecca. From my LA house, I drove down the street to Sunset Boulevard, and took a...

“Hard cases make bad law” is a tired lifeless legal cliche but it works to describe the Jared Loughner case. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. noted in Northern Securities Co. v....

I have been the fortunate recipient of many delicious pieces of impeachment in my career as a defense lawyer. The latest was in John Goodman’s trial.