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Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class

Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class

An examination of the history of plea bargaining, its role in the criminal legal system, and how it impacts society.

2022

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The Story of the Robin

Impossibility, archetype, and turdus migratorius

Jun 8

The Story of the Robin

Jun 8

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I Taught the Law

Plea Bargaining: The Everyday Practice that Undermines Working-Class Solidarity

A primer on how plea bargaining has been used by the ruling classes since the 19th century.

Jan 26, 2023

Plea Bargaining: The Everyday Practice that Undermines Working-Class Solidarity

Jan 26, 2023

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I Taught the Law

Secondary Traumatic Stress (or: On the Dispersal of Brain Matter in a Kentucky Trailer)

When a man’s head has been blown off with a shotgun, you’d expect there to be more of a mess. But a 12-gauge to the temple, at close range…

Aug 20, 2021

Secondary Traumatic Stress (or: On the Dispersal of Brain Matter in a Kentucky Trailer)

Aug 20, 2021

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The Bigger Picture

THAT COULD HAVE BEEN US

The true story of a tragic club fire that never happened

Oct 6, 2021

THAT COULD HAVE BEEN US

Oct 6, 2021

It Doesn’t Matter If It Was Staged

Fact, futility, and the storytelling brain.

Jul 16

It Doesn’t Matter If It Was Staged

Jul 16

I Know What’s Wrong with America

It’s not what you think.

Jul 10

I Know What’s Wrong with America

Jul 10

Published in
I Taught the Law

With fear for our democracy

Lessons from Sotomayor’s dissent in the Trump immunity case.

Jul 2

With fear for our democracy

Jul 2

Published in
I Taught the Law

Why Would a Lawyer Choose to Give Bad Advice?

I give advice for a living. That’s been my profession for almost 20 years, and a hobby long before that. I do my best, but I don’t always…

Jul 1

Why Would a Lawyer Choose to Give Bad Advice?

Jul 1

A Prayer for Forgiveness on the Road to the Magic Kingdom

Lost to the ages but clear in my memory is a news story about a Midwestern family with a broken refrigerator. They couldn’t afford a new…

Jun 15

A Prayer for Forgiveness on the Road to the Magic Kingdom

Jun 15

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I Taught the Law

How to Defend a Dead Pope

In 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for violation of canon law and perjury. Popes were getting locked up, exiled, and murdered quite a…

Jun 3

How to Defend a Dead Pope

Jun 3

Dan Canon

Dan Canon

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Civil rights lawyer, law professor, and high school dropout. Writes about the Midwest, class struggle, and the untold horrors of the legal system.

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