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FIRST APPEARANCE FOLLIES (opens the original)
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I have always had my doubts about the current Sheriff here in Jacksonville—when the City of Jacksonville and Duval County became a consolidated government in 1968, the City Police Department and the Sheriff’s Office were merged—a real mashup of municipally-governed agency and constitutional officer. The current Sheriff was not ever a leader or an innovator, and is absolutely failing in terms of training new officers.This week I’ve been in first appearance court — the 365-day-a-year courtroom tha
EXCESSIVE EXPERTISE (opens the original)
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Many people have recently become experts in the field of the insanity defense. The drumbeat of the media onslaught of the Lindsay Clancy trial has brought out armchair psychiatrists and Monday morning quarterback lawyers celebrating or castigating the legal process that allows such a defense. In this week’s New Yorker, Law School Professor Emeritus Michael Perlin described the popular myth surrounding the insanity defense: “ . . . a well-funded client, psychiatric experts in furious courtroom di
PAY TO PLAY (opens the original)
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I’m looking at a Press Release from the New Hampshire U.S. Attorney’s office entitled “Federal Election Fraud Fact Sheet.” Granted it is from 2016, but it helpfully points out that “Conduct Actionable as Federal Election Fraud, Intimidation, or Suppression” includes “[p]aying voters to register to vote, or to vote in elections where a federal candidate’s name is on the ballot.” The kind U.S. Attorney’s Office even provides the criminalizing statutes: 52 U.S.C. Section 10307 and 18 U.S.C. Section
HEARTBREAK SQUARE (opens the original)
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This week’s tragic stabbing incident in Times Square underscores the absolute need for mental health care—not only for the mentally ill, but for the families who desperately try to find help when loved ones cycle through episodic crises. I see it everyday in my new position as a misdemeanor public defender—the mentally ill are arrested for status offenses like “loitering,” “trespassing,” or “criminal mischief.”Schizophrenia and Bi-Polar Disorder, the Scylla and Charybdis of ailments, can be effe
WHAT’S IN A NAME? (opens the original)
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Think you know what a toponymist is? George R. Stewart was a pioneering one. In 1945, Stewart, an English professor at Cal Berkeley, published a book called Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States; the book was revised and re-released in 1958; then in 2008, the New York Review of Books brought out a new edition which somehow caught my eye.Stewart traced the importance of names given to the land, stressing that “the names had grown out of the life, and the lif
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