Oh, to be a juror in the Uma Thurman stalker trial, to gaze for days at the dark underbelly of our celebrity-obsessed culture! What must it have been like? As it turns out, the Law Blog needed to go no further than our front stoop this morning to find out. On the front-page of today’s [...]

To what extent does celebrity affect a district attorney’s decision to prosecute, say, an alleged stalker? Yesterday, when George Vomvolakis, the lawyer for Jack Jordan, who is accused of stalking actress Uma Thurman, gave his closing arguments in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan he argued that because Thurman “is larger than life,” the [...]

This article takes aim (no pun intended) at the prosecution in the Sean Bell murder case.

“The kid needs help, but this is a violent offense,” said Jay Hodge. “You can’t put an entire community in fear and just walk away. In this situation, society requires jail time. There’s no way to excuse or forgive what he did.”
Hodge, a prosecutor in Chesterfield, a small town in northeastern South Carolina, was referring [...]

“The kid needs help, but this is a violent offense,” said Jay Hodge. “You can’t put an entire community in fear and just walk away. In this situation, society requires jail time. There’s no way to excuse or forgive what he did.”
Hodge, a prosecutor in Chesterfield, a small town in northeastern South Carolina, was referring [...]