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Dad, What's the Penalty for Driving 400 MPH?

December 19, 2013 by Gregory D. Luce Leave a Comment

What’s the penalty for driving 370mph over the posted Minneapolis city speed limit?

Filed Under: Lawyer, Legal Crap My Kids Ask Me Tagged With: cars, criminal law, Featured

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Do You Talk to the Police or Not?

September 16, 2013 by A Favorable Light 1 Comment

Don’t believe law enforcement officers when they tell you that you’ll be rewarded for your honesty

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: criminal defense, criminal law

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Zimmerman & Anthony: Juries are Actually Pretty Good at What They Do

August 14, 2013 by M Walter 2 Comments

Make your story very simple! Don’t confuse the jury! We repeat these mantras over and over again. To our colleagues, we say things like “Well, yeah, but do you think a jury would understand that?” The trial attorney is constantly worrying that the poor uneducated peons on his or her jury just won’t understand his…

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: criminal defense, criminal law, discrimination, jury duty, lawyering, public defenders

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What to Expect When You Are Expecting… Your Client to Kill You

June 7, 2013 by Bitter Editor Leave a Comment

You have gone through years of school. You have built a career from nothing. You have worked hard to become a professional.  Your clientele probably has not. Especially for solo or small firm practitioners, clients can run the gamut from normal to certifiably insane.  Normally you would try to weed out the real creeps, but…

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: clients, Clients Gone Wild, criminal law, Solo Attorneys

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Love Struck Man Lands Himself in Custody

June 5, 2013 by M Walter Leave a Comment

Apparently, police officers tased a man yesterday just for trying to propose to his maybe his girlfriend . . . My theories are 1) he was really really high on drugs, 2) this is her way of breaking up with him, 3) the gays really have ruined marriage. Lets look for clues to find the answer! Clue…

Filed Under: Lawyer, News & Views, Really Real News Tagged With: criminal defense, criminal law, drugs, Legal News, naked

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Clown Fights Cop, Then Court

December 11, 2012 by Doug Stephan Leave a Comment

For most people, being in the courtroom awaiting your initial hearing on disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer is not the time to be clowning around. Kenneth Kraucunas is not most people. The Milwaukee man appeared in court dressed in full clown attire, including a red nose. The bailiff, who apparently hated…

Filed Under: Lawyer, News & Views Tagged With: Bitter News, courtroom, criminal law

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Why I Am Not a Criminal Defense Attorney, Part 2

November 26, 2012 by Doug Stephan 3 Comments

Last time we visited TIWIANACDA (acronym in progress), Lamarcus Williamson punched his attorney Dan Hall in the mouth because, well, he didn’t like the plead deal that he agreed to. This time we have an alleged murdered, Jerome Power of Grand Rapids, Iowa.

Filed Under: Lawyer, News & Views Tagged With: criminal law, grand rapids, iowa, jerome power

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Ladies' Night

June 11, 2012 by Doug Stephan 2 Comments

The latest strange legal news from the Bitter Lawyer newsroom, from attorney Doug Stephan

Filed Under: Lawyer, News & Views Tagged With: Bitter News, criminal law, women

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Snake It 'til You Make It

June 4, 2012 by Doug Stephan 1 Comment

The weekly news wrap from the Bitter Newsroom, thanks to Douglas Stephan

Filed Under: Lawyer, News & Views Tagged With: Bitter News, crime, criminal law

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The Mary Poppins Bag of News

May 14, 2012 by Doug Stephan 1 Comment

The Monday morning legal humor news wrap from the Bitter Lawyer newsroom

Filed Under: Lawyer, News & Views Tagged With: Bitter News, criminal law

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