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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 Sirius Murderer

Should the law protect the “exquisitely stupid” from being tricked into suicide?

6 min readFeb 9, 2024

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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.

5 min readJan 26, 2023

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Why Should You Care About the Bar Exam?

You didn’t take the bar exam. That’s probably because you didn’t go to law school. Good for you. Law school is hard. Your first year is an…

5 min readSep 27, 2022

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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…

12 min readAug 20, 2021

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THAT COULD HAVE BEEN US

The true story of a tragic club fire that never happened

12 min readOct 6, 2021

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The True Story of the Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024

Reflections on Elvis, memory, rock stardom, and the heavens.

6 min readApr 14, 2024

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The True Story of the Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024

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Persecution of Professors, from India to Indiana

Disappearing doctors, red-state higher ed bills, and the future of academic freedom.

5 min readMar 30, 2024

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What if this is the best part of your life?

Let’s explore a difficult question together.

5 min readMar 22, 2024

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What if this is the best part of your life?

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We Will Invade Canada

History 101: Idiot hegemons, brains callused by normalized violence, displace docile, peaceful people. So it is with the U.S. and Canada.

5 min readMar 10, 2024

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Trump’s Upcoming Trials and Marketing Moves, Annotated ;-)[1]

What will The Former Guy think of next?

4 min readFeb 25, 2024

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Trump’s Upcoming Trials and Marketing Moves, Annotated ;-)[1]

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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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