When I was admitted to the practice of law, Indiana’s self-defense statute permitted the use of force to defend one’s property, one’s home, and one’s self. The statute permitted the use of force for the defense of “others” only when such “others” were immediate family to their defender. The statute was asinine, and I knew […]
Part One of “The Trouble with Civility” centered on the fictional Atticus Finch and the fictional trial of the fictional Tom Robinson. There is much opinion in Part Two but no fiction. The term “civility” is curiously absent from the Indiana Rules of Professional Conduct, perhaps because the concept of civility defies that degree of […]