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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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Jun 8, 2024

The Story of the Robin

Impossibility, archetype, and turdus migratorius

The Story of the Robin

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Jan 26, 2023

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.

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

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Aug 20, 2021

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…

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

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The Bigger Picture

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Oct 6, 2021

THAT COULD HAVE BEEN US

The true story of a tragic club fire that never happened

THAT COULD HAVE BEEN US

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Feb 2

The Power of Willin’

What Little Feat and TV soundtracks can teach us about the current moment

The Power of Willin’

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May 27, 2025

What’s the Point?

A hopeful message for soon-to-be lawyers (and everyone else, I guess)

What’s the Point?

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Jul 16, 2024

It Doesn’t Matter If It Was Staged

Fact, futility, and the storytelling brain.

It Doesn’t Matter If It Was Staged

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Jul 10, 2024

I Know What’s Wrong with America

It’s not what you think.

I Know What’s Wrong with America

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Jul 2, 2024

With fear for our democracy

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

With fear for our democracy

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I Taught the Law

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Jul 1, 2024

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…

Why Would a Lawyer Choose to Give Bad Advice?

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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