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Comment from mediator of September 2025 mediation
I might have seen some better stewardship of three clients by one lawyer but if so I can’t remember it. How you handled a tough economic calculation, with no real compensatory facts, was truly truly admirable. Your clients clearly trusted you, should have, and your approach to candor with them without appearing “weak” was so…
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Very thoughtful article in NYT regarding living near a sex offender
Skip to contentSkip to site indexSection NavigationSEARCH GIVE THE TIMESAccount Magazine|I Saw a Neighbor on the Sex-Offender Registry. Should I Tell Others? Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENTSubscriber-only NewsletterThe Ethicist I Saw a Neighbor on the Sex-Offender Registry. Should I Tell Others? The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to disclose information about a neighbor on the sex-offender registry By Kwame…
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Driver License Revoked
Here’s how to get it reinstated 3. If you are NOT indigent, contact each clerk’s office listed on the Department’s list and start paying on the case(s). 4. If you ARE indigent (i.e. receiving social security, food stamps, unemployed, were given the public defender or other appointed attorney), you can fill out an affidavit of…
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An example of early, sensible restorative Justice; of course, driven by completely rational, sophisticated people–Native Americans from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. I was awarded the Restorative Justice Award by the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1995. I am a HUGE proponent of the restorative justice/mediation work my friends at VORP do in Crossville, Tennessee.
OPINION from the New York Times GUEST ESSAY 300 Years Ago, There Was a Brutal Murder. We Could Learn From the Treaty That Followed. Nov. 30, 2022 By Nicole Eustace Dr. Eustace is a professor of history at New York University. Her book “Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America”…
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Herald Citizen February 2, 2023
Attorney challenges cash bail system Attorney John Nisbet III is representing nearly a dozen men and women in a federal lawsuit challenging the cash bail system in Cumberland County. CROSSVILLE CHRONICLE Posted Thursday, February 2, 2023 BY MEGAN REAGAN “Someone has to stand up and say this isn’t right.” That is what John Nisbet III said of…
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Wow. The DA KNEW he didn’t commit the crime and STILL allowed him to stay in prison. $1.2 million isn’t enough.
Judge Blasts Former DA, Metro Police In rare rebuke from bench, Mark Fishburn calls law enforcement actions in Paul Shane Garrett case “malfeasance,” which led to $1.2 million settlement with Metro By Steve Cavendish Watch Demetria Kalodimos’ report and interviewwith civil rights attorney Kyle Mothershead. Paul Shane Garrett was incarcerated for 10 years for a crime…
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