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The state closed its evidence around 5:30 p.m. Thursday in a two-day trial I’ve been defending. After the nine-hour day in court, I came home, had bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches with my family and started trying to kick-start the ...

Right there tacked on the end for the world to see are a few of my favorite sections of the Missouri Constitution’s Bill of Rights. I use favorite as a 12-year-old uses it with his mother or father: “Oh yes, ...

"With your feet in the air and your head on the ground..."

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In a move that will not stun even one trial attorney in the United States, disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich decided last week that he would not testify in his corruption trial. That was one thing that I knew ...

In my third and final installment of the lawyer-goes-summer-vacationing saga I have to offer the afterglow.

“On the road again, just can’t wait to get on the road again.” Last week I evoked the memory of Clark W. Griswold and opined on the dilemma we lawyers face when we are trying to get some time out ...

"Roy; can I call you Roy? Have you ever driven cross country?"

As usual the Supremes will be dancing and singing this week with a great flurry to end their annual tour with a bang. No, Diana Ross is not reinventing Motown in the nation’s capital. The U.S. Supreme Court is ending ...

The states cannot "deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Last week, the University of Colorado announced it would leave the Big 12 Conference for the left coast and the Pac-10 Conference for apparently sunnier skies and Fox TV money. I had heard all the rumblings about the Big 12 ...

Last week Gov. Jay Nixon signed House Bill 1695 into law. His website declared that the law offers “a sweeping reform of Missouri’s DWI laws.” I had heard grumblings about the law and have heard a few reports about the ...