It’s Friday, and like most trial lawyers I am sitting at my desk wondering why I am not somewhere else. Did I mention that it’s Friday? Well it is. I was just checking out Facebook and I came across a link to a blog post by Henry Rollins, the former singer for a punk bank called Black Flag.
Rule one for bloggers is to stay on track. Do not go off topic. So again, I depart from the rules and simply have to "react" to a news story today that the Idaho lottery winner may have to "share" that huge prize with her "estranged husband." Oh, man – that law can be a bear.
Here’s the deal –
Completely off topic and, by proclamation of Judge Daniel Steckel of the 4th Judicial District, I am on vacation. Next stop – Coeur d’Alene and the local triathlon Saturday. Then it’s off on my bike with my bride (and 350 close friends) for a 450 mile bike ride throughout Northern Idaho and Montana.
Blogging can wait – but if you
Our friend Ellison Matthews died over the weekend and on the Idaho Criminal Defense Lawyers list serve the stories and memories regale him. I share here what I shared there – because Ellie was a wonderful man.
Years ago Ellie, Nevin, Garry Gilman and I were in a trial with a guy who favored a big hat. The Hat had
Laura Silsby is still sitting in a Haitian jail while a judge decides whether to order a trial on charges that she tried to take children from Haiti to the Dominican Republic who she believed were either orphaned or abandoned. The new charge is "arranging irregular travel." You will recall that she and other Idaho missionaries were in Haiti, ostensibly
Continue Reading While Laura Silsby Sits In Jail – Children Are Sold As Slaves In Haiti
I am a huge fan of 37 Signals and their product line of mind-freeing, software-killing, reality-driven SOLUTIONS. There, I said it – SOLUTIONS. As lawyers, we tend to only see problems. Problems are meant to be solved, not lawyered, and sometimes we simply forget the value in achieving something. Recently I had a case in which my client was charged
Bone fishing is tougher than you might expect. The fish are fast and skittish – and it turns out that my miserable ability to cast a fly across a twenty foot Idaho creek does not account for anything when the body of water is the ocean.
"Can you cast it 30 yards?"
"Of course."
Not.
Having relied upon the