Gamso - For the Defense

Commentary by an Ohio criminal defense lawyer

Monday, June 23, 2025

Until They Are Dead

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 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 ...
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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Today in History

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Today is Juneteenth, the newest, most recently enacted federal holiday.  That's the date in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galvesto...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Uncle Fred and the Texas Bar

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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...
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Thursday, June 5, 2025

The Past. It's Always the Past.

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"The past," Faulkner famously said, is never dead.  It's not even past." So when this blawg returned two days ago from wh...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2025

In Memoriam

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 It's getting on to 14 years since I wrote about Sonny Jacobs and Peter Pringle.  I teared up when I wrote that post and suggested that ...
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Saturday, November 11, 2023

11/11: 11 a.m.

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Eleventh of November.  Eleven in the morning. 1918.  That's when the armistice ending the fighting  in the  War to End All Wars  went in...
Sunday, September 17, 2023

Executioners

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No person shall purposely, and with prior calculation and design, cause the death of another or the unlawful termination of another's pr...
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Jeff Gamso
Criminal defense lawyer, former public defender, civil libertarian (former Legal Director of American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio), anti-death penalty activist, public speaker. Now retired from the active practice of law.My first career was English Professor. I studied medieval and renaissance English Literature, taught literature, film, and composition. I've been a film critic. I review books. NONE OF WHAT APPEARS IN THIS BLOG SHOULD BE TAKEN AS LEGAL ADVICE.ALSO, PLEASE NOTE THAT THE STUFF I WRITE IS MINE ALONE. I STAND MORE OR LESS BEHIND IT, BUT I DO NOT SPEAK FOR ANY OTHER LAWYER OR ANY GROUP OF LAWYERS - OR ANYONE ELSE, FOR THAT MATTER.
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