Law blog round-up
August 18, 2008
Happy Monday! Here’s what’s on the Web:
- Patricia Jessamy and three city judges are not happy with a study showing that city jurors are a lot less conviction-happy than county jurors. The report, which is only in draft form at the moment, proposes regional juries.
- The retrial of a man charged in the stabbing death of a man he had just spent the night with has ended in conviction. The Court of Special Appeals had overturned Jeffrey Allen’s original conviction for felony murder, with car theft as the felony, on grounds that Allen decided to steal John Butler’s car after he had already killed him. The court held, and the Court of Appeals agreed, that it’s not felony murder if the killer didn’t intend to commit the felony until after the murder.
- Ron Miller muses about “Google legacies.” Reminds me of a case out of Seattle where a guy once accused of a crime and kicked out of college wants a 10-year-old article about his case removed from the archives of the student newspaper. He’s now a lawyer and when people Google his name, they get this story.
- I missed the Saddleback Forum Saturday, but apparently the candidates were asked which Supreme Court justice they would not have nominated. The WSJ Law Blog writes about their answers.
- Our sister blog has a post on the new moderator of the ABA’s popular Solosez listserv, Virginia lawyer David Kaufman. Kaufman, who handles business disputes with a side of “martial arts law,” is active in the Maryland/Virginia/D.C. solo group.
CARYN TAMBER, Legal Affairs Writer
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Either you read the Seattle Times on a regular basis (unlikely), or you read about Shakespear Feyissa’s story on one of the dozen or so other blogs that have covered it in the past few days. (My guess would be David Lat’s Above the Law blog.) If you got the story from ATL or some other blog, it is customary practice to mention that (give a “shout out” as the silly expression goes) when blogging about it yourself. To imply that you remember the story (”reminds me of a case”) from some past experience is a little disingenuous if the experience consisted of reading another blog.
You’re right; I should have credited the Romenesko media blog, which is where I read the story last week. This was an oversight and not a deliberate attempt to mislead.