Judgment Day

The week in review:

--Gideon tells us why lawyers should talk less.

--Grits for Breakfast reports children with mental health problems are frequently placed in detention centers, rather than treatment facilities.

--Want to make a prosecutor paranoid?  Ken Lammers provides instructions.

--Jamie Spencer discusses the menu at Travis County Jail.

--Mark Bennett provides notes on Voir Dire.

--Scott at Simple Justice gets fired up over New York’s indigent defense system.

--Nicole Black, author of Sui Generis—a New York law blog, co-created a new blog:  Practicing Law in the 21st Century.

A few noteworthy posts from the world of legal blogs:

The Second Circuit Blog has a few recently decided criminal cases posted on its site covering Brady material, the ACCA and sentencing issues.

Sui Generis:  In the wake of Giles v. California, Nicole Black looks back at People v. Nieves-Andino, a New York case involving a similar issue.

Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice discusses "Laying the Blame for Prisons on the Dems."

CrimProf has "Dallas DA Pushes for Criminal Justice Changes."

The Wall Street Journal Law Blog provides snippets from Scalia's new book here, here, and here.

How Appealing has a link to "The victim's voice: Statements by a woman murdered by her boyfriend should be allowed to stand in his conviction." 

The end of last week got a little busy for me, and I was traveling most of Friday and Saturday. I managed to post a few things, but didn’t get a chance to visit some of my regular reads. For anyone else who had a hectic end to their week, these posts are worth revisiting:

Simple Justice: Anticipating the Sean Bell Verdict. I don’t do trial work, but I love this statement from Scott Greenfield:

That's how cases are tried and decided in the trenches. It's done with a club, not a scalpel. It's messy and ugly. There is nothing nuanced about trial level courts. There never has been. On appeal, when lawyers and judges have all day to ponder these critically important questions of theory, criticize them all you want. But don't jump down anyone's throat about what happens in the trenches because it wasn't sufficiently nuanced.

a public defender:  Gideon blogged about Cops coming round on videotaped interrogations.

Defending People:  Mark Bennett has this interesting commentary on Virginia v. Moore in Texas.

Grits for Breakfast: Scott Henson wrote Juvie crime in Texas IS declining, but “why” is a mystery

Check out a few of my regular reads:

Simple Justice has a post today titled “LA Prosecutors Get Split Ends”

“Cert. Denied in Delayed Capital Cases”; courtesy of Crime and Consequences

Sex Crimes has “Florida District Court Strikes Down Registry Provisions of AWA on Commerce Clause Grounds”

The California Blog of Appeal has this for the California criminal appellate attorney; ‘The Limits of Wende”

And, from SCOTUSblog, which always has something good; “Court to hear anti-dumping, sentencing cases”