My 'pologies for the dearth of quality reading material in these parts of late. Blame it on Blakely and the slew of enormous, procedurally morass-y new cases on which I've been appointed.
Plus, I managed to jam the end of my middle finger into the pool wall pre-flip-turn (or pre-what passes for flip turns in my world) this morning, and it #@*)[email protected]%&! hurts to type. Adding insult to injury, it also hurts to raise the offended finger offensively at the offending parties. Of course, there's really no one to blame for this mishap but myself, but I think flipping the bird at someone (or something - how about the big effing black clouds dumping buckets on yet another afternoon?) would make me feel better.
Anyway, bear with me during this time of chaos and pain. I'll have some cool new stuff to share with you before too long . . . .
It's pretty interesting seeing the criminal law community responding to Blakely, and how a decision in Washington can have such tangible, real-life, immediate effects everywhere in the nation. ProsecutorWife and I spent a good 45 minutes earlier this week talking about some of the cases she has that will have to be quickly reevaluated for plea bargain purposes. At least one civil case on my docket in which our client is facing simultaneous criminal charges has been completely thrown into a state of chaos because of Blakely. This sort of thing reminds me why I love this profession so much. What others are reading about in the newspapers as a passing sidenote, we're living and breathing every day.
Posted by: UCL | July 01, 2004 at 09:18 AM