March2016

Mar. 30, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Ed. Note: Scott Greenfield crosses Houston criminal defense and First Amendment lawyer, Mark Bennett, whose blog, Defending People, is one of the foremost criminal law blogs around. Q. While everyone...

Mar. 30, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Whoever said that cops don’t have a great sense of humor? Look no farther than Granite Shoals, Texas for proof that police like a practical joke just as much as the...

Mar. 30, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Morning people – here’s what you need to know. The family of Zachary Hammond reached a $2.1 million settlement with the city of Seneca, SC in the shooting death of their...

Mar. 30, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Recently, at Fault Lines, Josh Kendrick wrote about the war of words between Judge Kozinski and Judge Tallman, both of the Ninth Circuit, regarding alleged discovery abuses by prosecutors. That...

Mar. 30, 2016 (Mimesis Labs) — Rachelle Dubow, partner in the intellectual property group at Morgan Lewis, talks about the need for clients to pay particular attention to protecting their intellectual property rights as America normalizes diplomatic...

Mar. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — The Oklahoma County District Attorney charged Carlos Santos’ best friends, Jessey Gonzalez and Nicolas Gedela, both 18, with murder after the 17-year-old’s shooting death during a drug deal gone wrong. ...

Mar. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Nedra Dodds, a doctor who did a poor job performing cosmetic surgery on her patients, had two patients die on the operating table. She has been charged with a crime. Not...

Mar. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — I get a real kick out of the legal advice offered by YouTubers on how one should handle themselves during a police contact. First, almost all of it is from...

Mar. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — On a snowy night in 1957, Maria Ridulph disappeared from a street near her house in the small town of Sycamore, Illinois. Her body was found a few months later....

Mar. 29, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — When a criminal defense lawyer fails to abide by the professional rules and norms, it’s often either celebrated as zealous advocacy or excused as poor trial strategy. On the other...