I haven’t posted in a while, and probably won’t again for some time. Whatever excess care I might have spent on blogging is now absorbed by the fact that our state supreme court a few weeks ago granted transfer in a case in which I’d represented the defendant at trial. By doing so, they vacated a court of appeals’ opinion which, on the grounds of collateral estoppel, had reversed my former client’s conviction and 45 year sentence for attempted murder and would have set him free. Oral argument was held last Thursday.<\/p>\n
The former client is innocent, and never should have been convicted in the first place. “No person in this state shall be placed in legal jeopardy of any kind whatsoever for protecting the person or a third person by reasonable means necessary.” Indiana Code section 35-41-3-2.<\/p>\n
I am praying to God for Justice.<\/p>\n
1<\/sup>Praise the LORD!
\nPraise the LORD, O my soul!
\n2<\/sup>I will praise the LORD while I live;
\nI will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
\n3<\/sup>Do not trust in princes,
\nIn mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
\n4<\/sup>His spirit departs, he returns to the earth;
\nIn that very day his thoughts perish.
\n5<\/sup>How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
\nWhose hope is in the LORD his God,
\n6<\/sup>Who made heaven and earth,
\nThe sea and all that is in them;
\nWho keeps faith forever;
\n7<\/sup>Who executes justice for the oppressed;
\nWho gives food to the hungry
\nThe LORD sets the prisoners free.
\n8<\/sup>The LORD opens the eyes of the blind;
\nThe LORD raises up those who are bowed down;
\nThe LORD loves the righteous;
\n9<\/sup>The LORD protects the strangers;
\nHe supports the fatherless and the widow,
\nBut He thwarts the way of the wicked.
\n10<\/sup>The LORD will reign forever,
\nYour God, O Zion, to all generations.
\nPraise the LORD!<\/p>\nPsalm 146<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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