The trial regarding George Zimmerman has been going on until 10 p.m. That is a very long day, when you consider that both sets of lawyers will need to complete several tasks every night after a trial. During a trial, both sets of lawyers will spend anywhere from 2 – 4 hours, or more preparing
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The Vanishing Plaintiff
By Thomas J. Crane on
Posted in Litigation and trial practice
Legal scholars are becoming more aware that actual trials in federal courts have decreased dramatically since the 1960’s. Suja Thomas discussed this trend in a recent speech at Seattle University to mark the 25th anniversary of the summary judgment trilogy. See Workplace Prof report. Prof. Thomas mentions a couple of developments leading to this…
Soldier Gets Life for Killing Iraqi Civilians
By Thomas J. Crane on
Posted in General
A veteran of the Iraq war gets life for killing unarmed civilians in Iraq. Reports the CBS news website. I spoke about this sometime back. It is a heinous crime. But, I have noticed that many of the line troops, the ones conducting "kinetic operations," never work with the "nice" Iraqis, the…