When you file an amicus brief, and you represent a state, the court reads your brief. It is a powerful position to make the legal assault from.
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Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.
I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.
I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.
People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge will see any holes. If you do that in fiction, it's too long and boring.
One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.
The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.
The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.
That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
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