Gamso - For the Defense

It's been decades since I underlined or wrote in the margins of books, really dating back to some point when I was in college and began ...

FIRST ANECDOTE Several decades ago, I was invited to a meeting to help figure out how to prioritize and then advance the goals of an anti-de...

So this retired criminal defense lawyer is sitting in his recliner one summer evening in Phoenix, Arizona (10 pm temperature a nippy 92 afte...

 Back in the day, when I was writing this blawg on a regular basis, I wrote often about lethal injection.  (You can click the link on the ...

Today is Juneteenth, the newest, most recently enacted federal holiday.  That's the date in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galvesto...

Decades ago, back probably when I was a baby lawyer, the Texas Bar Journal (the, er, literary arm of THE STATE BAR OF TEXAS to which every L...

"The past," Faulkner famously said, is never dead.  It's not even past." So when this blawg returned two days ago from wh...