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Not My Finest Day in Court

We got a jury picked on the self-defense case. I got to go dead last, after a) the judge; b) the prosecutor; and c) counsel for my codefendant. We started at about 11, and I got up to talk with the panel at about 3:30.

I was tired.

The panel was tired.

The law is muddled.

It was not pretty.

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Mark Bennett got his letter of marque from the Supreme Court of Texas in May 1995. He is famous for having no sense of humor when it comes to totalitarianism.

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