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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, 2024

The Story of the Robin

Jun 8, 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.

Jan 26, 2023

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

Jan 26, 2023

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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…

Aug 20, 2021

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

Aug 20, 2021

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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

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I Taught the Law

What’s the Point?

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

May 27

What’s the Point?

May 27

It Doesn’t Matter If It Was Staged

Fact, futility, and the storytelling brain.

Jul 16, 2024

It Doesn’t Matter If It Was Staged

Jul 16, 2024

I Know What’s Wrong with America

It’s not what you think.

Jul 10, 2024

I Know What’s Wrong with America

Jul 10, 2024

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I Taught the Law

With fear for our democracy

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

Jul 2, 2024

With fear for our democracy

Jul 2, 2024

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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, 2024

Why Would a Lawyer Choose to Give Bad Advice?

Jul 1, 2024

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, 2024

A Prayer for Forgiveness on the Road to the Magic Kingdom

Jun 15, 2024

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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