On this 10th day of December, 2021 we are one day past the Cook County, Illinois conviction of Jussie Smollet on 5 of the 6 counts of felony disorderly conduct on which he was tried (belatedly) nearly 3 years after his infamous faked “attack” by persons alleged to be homophobic, racist Trump supporters. The title […]
It was August 28th of 2020 when “In Defense of Kyle” appeared as a short Featured Article in the CLB. Only three days before Kyle Rittenhouse had his day of deadly infamy in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In that Article, I wrote of the evidence of self-defense known to me at the time. The Article included my […]
This is the sixth (6th) time that the story of John Larkin has appeared in a CLB featured article or case note. John Larkin was of interest (initially) because of his connection to the outrageous prosecutorial misconduct of former LaPorte County Deputy Prosecutor Robert Neary, who remains suspended from the practice of law as of […]
The COA Opinion of August 18, 2021 in Denman v. St. Vincent Medical Group forces the CLB into a retraction. It was in a July appellate case note entitled “Sentence Review and the Disjunctive ‘And’” that the CLB declared: “No person or entity in the State of Indiana should be more competent or more careful […]
The topic is application of the proportionality test (for purposes of the Eighth Amendment bar on excessive fines) in the “use-based” forfeiture of a small time heroin dealer’s Land Rover. The case is State v. Timbs as decided June 10, 2021 in the SCOTSI by way of a 3-1-1 tally of votes. Starting with a […]
From March 19, 2020 until its expiration in August there was Executive Order 20-06 prohibiting the initiation of residential eviction actions in Indiana. On March 27, 2020 I posted the featured article “The Governor’s Emergency Powers” with the view that Governor Holcomb was exceeding his authority with the torrent of “Emergency” Executive Orders. To its […]
A former adjunct professor of law at Georgetown recently had her day of infamy. Her name is Sandra Sellers. Being an “adjunct” professor of law generally means that your teaching job is part-time and that you have an actual law practice or other legal field employment outside the university. That seems to have been the […]
Within hours of the news release that I could register (by reason of age) for COVID-19 vaccination, I went onto my home computer and did so. The digital starting point for the task was the State of Indiana website (in.gov) or “ourshot.in.gov.” You could say that there were three steps, beginning with selection of a […]
“The first casualty, when war comes, is truth.” This frequently paraphrased quote is attributed to Hiram Johnson, a progressive Republican senator in California as commentary on World War I. Nearly identical versions of the thought are attributed to Samuel Johnson (around 1758) and Aeschylus (around 550 B.C.). An observation of the CLB is that truth […]
In the wake of the January 6th storming of the Capitol Building by an angry mob, here are some random thoughts that could be of interest. CROWDS. The Indy 500 race features the largest crowd of people (maybe 250,000) within my personal experience. Still, that crowd tends to be spread out over a large area […]