Okay. I confess. I’m confused. Time magazine has an online article right now about a guy who was convicted for rape. No biggee, right? Happens every day. The twist here is that the woman consented to sex. After sex started, she changed her mind and asked him to stop. The accuser and the defendant agree […]

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The news is in and I passed the California State Bar of July 2006. And, yes, it does feel good to have done this on the first try. Now some friends are renewing a question I’ve heard several times before: Why criminal defense? Why would I want to “put criminals back on the street”? The […]

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Michael Mullane, of NPR, has written a radio piece titled The Rule of Law that pretty much sums up why I want to keep writing articles here at Unspun™ as long and often as I can. Anyone who regularly reads this blog is probably tired of the too-frequent whines, wherein I consider not writing anymore […]

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I haven’t written much lately. The main reason is, as usual, my workload. Normally my sense of outrage over what’s happening to our nation would overcome that drawback and I would write anyway. However, the thing which concerns me the most — the potential destruction of our way of life once the right-wing is firmly […]

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Well, I’m pissed this morning. Seems that there’s some hick out there who is creating confusion with my name. And Starbucks is behind it. The irony of it is that this hired gun makes his living working to defend the public image of corporate giant Starbucks which believes that when other people come up with […]

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Alright, first off, let’s clear something out of the way. Arnold Schwarzeneggar recently was found to be driving a motorcycle without a license. Big deal. Seriously, considering everything else going on in the world today, it’s really a small thing. And I don’t intend to try here to make a big thing out of it. […]

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I am privileged that my blog was visited last night by James Whisman, the prosecutor from Kings County, Washington, who was mentioned in my article, “Satire, Reality & a Return to the Dark Ages” back in November 2004. First, let me thank Mr. Whisman for visiting my site. I appreciate it. And, second, let me […]

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Before getting into the substance of this post, let me offer a disclaimer, or caveat, if you will. Today, I will take the Chief of Police of the City of Clovis — Jim Zulim — to task for encouraging people to believe that might makes right, that it’s okay to use the power of your […]

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According to the Fresno Bee, what’s required to get law enforcement agencies to do their jobs these days is lots of media attention. Someone apparently shot a BB gun at a photographer who was staking out Britney Spears this past weekend. Though the shooting “doesn’t even rise to the level of assault with a deadly […]

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I had hoped that my first post after a self-imposed moratorium on blogging was going to be my story about how the flags at Club One had been replaced. (This, in fact, was done yesterday and today I brought my camera to take pictures.) Alas, about 30 minutes ago, the Wesson trial ended. As I […]

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