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A Proposed Stipulation in the Pardons Case?

A quick reminder for laypeople in the audience.

… a stipulation is an agreement made between opposing parties prior to a pending hearing or trial. For example, both parties might stipulate to certain facts, and therefore not have to argue those facts in court.

When Judge Norman Gillespie was a magistrate, and parties at a pretrial conference would start [...]

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The true story of trusting a trusty

Last week, Bill Minor wrote in the Clarion Ledger, telling the whole story of Ross Barnett saying, “If you can’t trust a trusty, who can you trust.”  Minor was there, and he has all the details.  I’d heard the short version for years, spun slightly differently– that a Parchman trusty was sent into Arkansas [...]

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Kingfish has video of the pardon hearing today

It begins with the judge explaining that filing an entry of the appearance with the circuit clerk and emailing a copy to the court administrator does not suffice.  Not an auspicious beginning.

You can check out Kingfish’s video here.

Watch about 8 minutes in when Judge Green asks about a warrant of arrest and [...]

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What happened to Bob?

Jon Bois writes on SB Nation that there are no longer atheletes named Bob– the only remaining example in major American sports is Bob Sanders of the San Diego Charges.

The article illustrates the storied history of Bob in American sports with several charts, although what came to my mind were baseball hall of [...]

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Thinking wrong about maps and orientation

From a New Yorker blog:

The more time we spend finding directions on Google Maps, the more our minds may grow familiar with the officially documented outline of our city, rather than the one created through our own experiences. This idea receives support in a recent study published online late last month, ahead of [...]

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What’s the SOPA warning and blackout?

On January 24th, the Senate will vote on SOPA, the “Stop Internet Piracy Act,”  Today– January 18th– Redit, Boing Boing, and a lot of other internet sites have joined in a 12 hour blackout warning folks that this legislation could, literally, destroy the internet as we know it.

Those participating in the blackout are [...]

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An Arizona school has banned “The Tempest”

I could not have possibly guessed why without a Google search.  How about you folks?

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Strange Google Searches

Yes, someone came to my blog tonight searching for:

unauthorized use of a movable Louisiana

You read that right.  And, believe it or not, this legal topic has come up on my blog, back in the Fall of 2010, when I recounted the tale of a naked woman arrested in Covington, Louisiana for stealing [...]

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Radiolab’s Symmetry

Radiolab is a public radio broadcast from New York; I learned about it from episodes of This American Life that the Radiolab folks produced.  It’s one of the podcast I automatically download.  They made the film, above.

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Two Best Tweets about Kim Jung Il

@KPCCofframp Kim Jong Il dead: I knew of an announcer who once called him Kim Jong the Second. And that’s why serifs are important.

and

@jstrevino I’d like to think God let Havel and Hitchens pick the third.

(h/t to Sullivan for the 2nd one)

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