“Lawyer’s Hoax Spurs Legal Tactics Debate”: The Associated Press provides a report from Wisconsin that begins, “When a prominent lawyer was defending a businessman on charges of sexually assaulting a boy and possessing child pornography, he used a ruse to obtain the boy’s computer to aid his case. Now, state regulators want the state Supreme Court to scold the lawyer for the hoax.”
Meanwhile, in local coverage, The Capital Times of Madison reported earlier this month that “Noted lawyer accused of hoax in case; Hurley faces misconduct charge.”
And The Wisconsin State Journal reported earlier this month that “Attorney to contest board’s complaint.”
“A Habeas Corpus Appeal Veers to Capital Issues”: Linda Greenhouse has this article today in The New York Times.
And The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports today that “‘Buzz’ Westfall’s ‘Patton’ remark debated.”
“Bong Hits 4 Jesus–Explained: Will the justices overturn Tinker? Nah, they’ll just tinker.” Daniel Henninger has this op-ed (free access) today in The Wall Street Journal.
Today in The Washington Times, Debra J. Saunders has an op-ed entitled “Prankster at schoolhouse gate.”
And in The Los Angeles Times, columnist Michael McGough has an essay entitled “The Supreme Court’s Jesus jones: How you value the teaching of schools depends on what values the schools are teaching.”
“Tobin’s phone jam verdict reversed”: The Bangor Daily News today contains an article that begins, “A federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed the conviction and sentence of a long-time Republican strategist accused of taking part in a phone-jamming plot in New Hampshire on Election Day 2002.”
My earlier coverage of yesterday’s First Circuit ruling appears at this link.
“Subpoenas Issued in a Terror-Finance Probe Spark a Secret Battle Before a Federal Court”: Josh Gerstein has this article today in The New York Sun.
“Government: Don’t rush on detainee cases.” Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”
“The Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in the First Amendment Case in Which A High School Student Was Penalized for Unfurling a ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ Banner”: Marci Hamilton has this essay online at FindLaw.
