Month: October 2023

We had evidence tying the defendants to the home invasion and robbery.   On the evening of May 25th, 1982, there had been at a house just two blocks away from the victim’s residence. The two brothers left the party to walk to a nearby store to buy beer and wine.  When they returned, one of the […]

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She walked into the living room carrying gasoline in a mason jar.  He was laying on the couch facing the other way.  Watching T.V., drinking out of quart bottle of beer. He had been Lounging there in his underwear the last hour mumbling the B’ word, satisfied with himself for having told her how things were.  She had […]

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Finding Andy – Part Two “Now Doctor,” I asked, “given all your learning, given all your experience, given all your studies in the field of psychiatry, do you, anywhere account for the concept of EVIL?”  The witness, somewhat renown in his field, must have swallowed wrong.  Perhaps his throat tightened at the question.  At any rate, he […]

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The heat was brutal.  The Witch was not doing well. At least I called her a “Witch.”  My investigator called her a “Medium.”   We had been searching for the old man’s body for weeks.  Andy.  Murdered by a young wife and her brother.  Thanks to the work of two great detectives with the Tulare Police Department, we knew his […]

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More First Cases – “What the hell are you afraid of?” My next appearance on behalf of the prison gang leader was at his Superior Court arraignment.  No longer would there be any question that my role as defense counsel would be limited to an advisory role.  Still, I was worried about representing someone on a capital […]

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