Geek-at-Law @Tehnatalego

Lawyer interested in all things tech. #geeksresist 🌊. Also, crim law, 4th Amendment, robots, video games, IP, etc. Michigan, USA Joined February 2018

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Irene C. Reynolds @IreneCReynolds1

3 months ago

Elon Musk were to form an "American Party" and field candidates, here’s how I’d think about it: What does the "American Party" actually stand for? Musk’s public statements are a mix of libertarianism, techno-utopianism, and anti-woke populism. But that's not a clear political…

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Sixth Circuit Blog @6thCirBlog

4 years ago

6th Circuit today holds that, in deciding whether extraordinary and compelling reasons exist to reduce a sentence, courts may consider "the disparity between a defendant’s actual sentence and the sentence that he would receive if the First Step Act applied opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/2…

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Sixth Circuit Blog @6thCirBlog

5 years ago

Always good to see a Learned Hand cite. 7th Cir today vacated a 25-year sentence for heroin distribution, relying on a 1938 Hand opinion in finding insufficient evidence to support the government's "aiding and abetting" theory media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExe…

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Ted Lieu @tedlieu

5 years ago

We were ready on Tuesday. We were ready yesterday. We are ready today.

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Constitutionally Required @cfitzhar

5 years ago

Sentencing over zoom is so dehumanizing. A judge told a client that he might die in prison, but other people need to know that if you’re a felon, then you can’t possess a gun. And then he waved, and we all logged off. I can’t talk with the client until Monday. Awful.

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Chris McLamb @McLambChris

5 years ago

Absurd

Sixth Circuit Blog @6thCirBlog

5 years ago

Absurd

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Alexandra Van Dine @afvandine

5 years ago

This is shameful.

Sixth Circuit Blog @6thCirBlog

5 years ago

This is shameful.

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Alison K. Guernsey @alison_guernsey

5 years ago

This one's for you 6th Circuit: Otis Morris died of COVID in the @OfficialFBOP on 2/3. Last year, he filed a pro se motion for compassionate release pleading for help. He feared dying in prison. He had congestive heart failure, diabetes, and only 1 lung. /1

Sixth Circuit Blog @6thCirBlog

5 years ago

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Unwilling Banana Republican @VoxPrudentia

5 years ago

The worst thing about cases like this is that, as my friend @DRangaviz argued in a similar case before the Mass. SJC, trial court judges take their cues from their colleagues on the appellate bench.

Sixth Circuit Blog @6thCirBlog

5 years ago

The worst thing about cases like this is that, as my friend @DRangaviz argued in a similar case before the Mass. SJC, trial court judges take their cues from their colleagues on the appellate bench.

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Sixth Circuit Blog @6thCirBlog

5 years ago

6th Circuit today granted a stay of a compassionate release order for a person *already* released to the community. It rules that he hasn't shown "his return to detention will cause him substantial harm." drive.google.com/file/d/1tL1h2W…

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Benchwarmers Law Blog @BenchwarmersLaw

5 years ago

Interesting (some might say baffling) decision from a CA6 panel today. At first glance, this doesn’t feel like a garden-variety application of abuse-of-discretion review.

Sixth Circuit Blog @6thCirBlog

5 years ago

Interesting (some might say baffling) decision from a CA6 panel today. At first glance, this doesn’t feel like a garden-variety application of abuse-of-discretion review.

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Sixth Circuit Blog @6thCirBlog

5 years ago

ED Mich Judge granted a sentencing reduction today to remedy an excessive 107-year sentence based on stacking mandatory minimums, and criticized the U.S. Attorney for continuing to defend the sentence. drive.google.com/file/d/1jK--Jz…

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Orin Kerr @OrinKerr

5 years ago

"Remarkable New Fifth Circuit Decision Limiting Cell Phone Searches," a deep dive for the law nerds on a surprising new 4th Amendment decision. Wrong reasoning, I think, but the right result for other reasons. Blogging old school like it's 2007. reason.com/volokh/2021/01…

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Joe Biden @JoeBiden

5 years ago

As the United States works to advance human rights around the world, we must also recognize that our task begins here at home. My administration is committed to ensuring every person is free to flourish in a society that values and defends equal justice for all. #HumanRightsDay

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Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC

5 years ago

Would have been nice had an American President this year learned anything from the way Woodrow Wilson mishandled the influenza pandemic. But all Americans pay an unspeakable price when a President has no serious interest in learning from history.

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Michael McFaul @McFaul

5 years ago

Im old enough to remember when conservatives used to cherish the rights of states and hated frivolous lawsuits.

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Sixth Circuit Blog @6thCirBlog

5 years ago

"Ethical lapses by the Executive Branch like this do not advance the cause of justice..." Serious criticism yesterday of the government's interpretation of 6th Circuit decision limiting application of policy statements to compassionate-release motions. drive.google.com/file/d/1tUIDYZ…