Useful information from the MSP. Michigan really needs to update its traffic code.

Quoted: Michigan State Police - Commonly asked questions and answers related to traffic law

Quoted: What's stunning about President Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence, if you're a criminal defense lawyer, ... is that the factors Bush relied on in commuting Libby's sentence are the same ones that the administration has aggressively sought to preclude judges from considering when imposing sentences on everyone else....

Uh oh.

Quoted: The emotional distress of law students appears to significantly exceed that of medical students and at times approach that of psychiatric populations. That's the conclusion of a new study, suggesting that law school has a corrosive effect on the well-being, values and motivation of students.

A lot of really interesting comments after this post; quite a few were in this vein:

Quoted: When I was a Harvard undergrad back in the 70’s and early ’80’s, I spent a lot of time playing hoop against HLS students at Hemenway gym, and they didn’t seem too stressed to me, although much more prone than your average pickup players to call out fouls.

Comments-sections are the truck-stop toilet stall doors of our time, but there is some really great discussion here.

Apparently this guy is being recalled to Marine service so that he can be re-discharged, this time dishonorably. Oh boy.

Quoted: The funeral stunt earned the protesters a coveted “political protest” arrest — apparently it’s now illegal to protest anything for political reasons — and your favorite Marine was also charged with “Unlawful Assembly — Loud and Boisterous,” despite the fact that he was silent during the performance.

Quoted: And while right-wingers had no problem mocking the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, they have a tougher time mocking an actual living Marine male veteran who actually fought in the war they just write about on their blogs.

Quoted: All the chickenhawks will have permission to call him a traitor or whatever on the blogs and talk radio if he suddenly becomes dishonorably discharged, that’s the point!

Que interesante. I don't see how Dick Wolf - creator and producer of L&O - can afford to let this happen.

Quoted: If Fred Thompson, the one-time Tennessee senator better known to most Americans as district attorney Arthur Branch on "Law & Order," runs for president, some of his fans may be in for a letdown.

Kicking it up a notch to "Constitutional Showdown"...

I also saw a sad statement by Ms. Chiara, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan in Grand Rapids recently. Has the Press been covering this story much?

Quoted: At first, we called it a flap. Then, we upgraded it to an imbroglio. After awhile, we felt compelled to kick it up to a mess. But now it looks like none of these words will do. With congressional Democrats threatening to issue subpoenas to Bush administration officials and the White House vowing to fight them in court, what we now have on our hands, Law Blog readers, is a constitutional showdown. Meanwhile, in three separate stories, the New York Times spotlights three of the ousted U.S. Attorneys:

Ahh, brain surgeon humor. Good stuff.

Quoted: A weblog of classic humor from U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer

The problem w/ eyewitness identifications: they're frequently wrong.

Quoted: A weblog of classic humor from U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer