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Tell the U.S. Department of Justice to Leave Medi-Pot Patients Alone
NORML wants to make sure Holder will keep President Barack Obama's campaign promises
"...for Eric Holder, Prez Elect-Barack Obama's pick for U.S. Attorney General, slated to begin on Thursday (Jan. 15), NORML..."

Jan. 13, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Yogurt Shop Defendants Ask for Bond
Judge Lynch seems to have changed his tune about whether mounting evidence might be enough to allow Springsteen and Scott out of jail on bond
"...decision may come sooner, however, depending on when defense attorneys receive and pass on to the state final reports..."

Jan. 12, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Supremes Let Stand California Medi-Pot Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from Garden Grove, Calif., challenging a lower court ruling that a medi-pot patient should get back his seized stash
"...and instead appealed the local court's ruling. Former California Attorney General Bill Lockyer filed an amicus brief with the..."

Dec. 8, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith

Holder Versus Obama on Man-Min Sentences
"...Barack Obama as his nominee to become the next attorney general. Holder is a former deputy AG during the..."

Nov. 19, 2008 News Post by Jordan Smith

Deception
In this so-called erotic thriller, busy New York City power brokers partake in a decadent sex club that eventually proves fatal.
"...of the cell phone of a handsome and charismatic attorney (Jackman) who has befriended him. But has he really..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Superhero Movie
Superhero Movie is a tonally confused spoof, which, for once, doesn't go far enough comedically.
"...gang and then minimalized by Reducto from Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Even cameos from Airplane!-er Robert Hays and..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Meurer Demurs on Replacing Earle
Meurer not among Democrats hoping to replace Ronnie Earle
"...offices. But the biggest surprise comes in the district attorney race. With Ronnie Earle stepping down, the heavy speculation..."

Jan. 3, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Jury Duty Scam
Thieves posing as court officer try to steal your identity.
"...Attorney General Greg Abbott sent out a warning today to..."

Oct. 22, 2007 News Post by Lee Nichols

Crazy Love
Documentary portrait of a mutually obsessive, interdependent, tabloid-fodder marriage going on 30 years.
"...weird.” She was right. But she loved the flashy attorney anyway, even after he hired assailants to throw lye..."

June 15, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Slow Burn
Slow Burn – starring Ray Liotta, LL Cool J, and Mekhi Phifer – becomes one of those movies that’s so bad, it’s almost entertaining. Almost.
"...period, the film follows Ford (Liotta), the ambitious district attorney of an unnamed metropolis, whose recently launched mayoral bid..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Breach
The career of Robert Hanssen, the brilliant real-life FBI spy whose exploits as a double agent caused a great many deaths, should be the mole story to end all mole stories, but it is not.
"...outpace the anxiety caused by the appearance of former Attorney General John Ashcroft in its opening scene. Terrorwise, it’s..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Graves Free on Bond; Prosecutor Withdraws
"...The Chronicle learned Dec. 18 that Burleson County District Attorney Renee Mueller this afternoon filed a motion voluntarily recusing..."

Dec. 19, 2006 News Post by Jordan Smith

Injunction Blocks Abbott Enforcement of Ballot Law
"...T. John Ward issued a preliminary injunction blocking state Attorney General Greg Abbott from what plaintiffs, including the Texas..."

Nov. 1, 2006 News Post by Lee Nichols

A/k/a Tommy Chong
Chong cuts a hugely sympathetic figure in the story of his legal troubles after Operation Pipe Dreams, an anti-paraphernalia sweep that specifically targeted his bong business.
"...anti-paraphernalia sweep led by John Ashcroft lieutenant and U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan. The tale begins on September 11,..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Shaggy Dog
There are precious few surprises here, but this breezy remake starring Tim Allen is a painless affair.
"...mouthful of cinematic kibble. As Los Angeles' star district attorney Dave Douglas, Allen mines his borderline insufferable Everyman quirkiness..."

March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Madea's Family Reunion
In this sequel to last year’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Tyler Perry ups the ante and includes Cicely Tyson and Maya Angelou in his coffee klatch.
"...of bite, adding in Underwood’s Carlos, an up-and-coming Atlantan attorney whose debonair panache conceals the spousal batterer within. As..."

March 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Derrickson’s film, based on a real event in which a priest was charged with negligent homicide because of a death that occurred during an exorcism, flirts with relevance and assorted hot-button topics but fails to amount to much more than an overlong exercise in Jesuit Theosophy 101, played against the backdrop of Law & Order.
"...to call their own in Linney’s kinda-sorta agnostic defense attorney Erin Bruner, who at the behest of her firm’s..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Christmas With the Kranks
Holiday pap and circumstance.
"...unholy three: director Joe Roth, screenwriter Christopher Columbus, and attorney-turned-cottage industry John Grisham, upon whose novel (Skipping Christmas) this..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shall We Dance?
Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, and Susan Sarandon co-star in in this tempting remake of a Japanese film about a man's midlife slump.
"...Japanese film of the same name, a workaholic Chicago attorney stuck in the rut of contemporary life unexpectedly finds..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Intimate Strangers
In this surprisingly romantic tale of confused identity and psychoanalysis, the doctor isn’t in, but the tax attorney is.
"...but at the office of a mild-mannered, meticulous tax attorney named William (Luchini). The misunderstanding isn’t readily apparent –..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Runaway Jury
John Grisham courtroom thumper marches to a familiar tune.
"...in Runaway Jury, personified here by the plaintiff’s true-believer attorney (Hoffman) and the defense team’s cynical jury consultant (Hackman)...."

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Intolerable Cruelty
The Coen brothers tackle a comedy of manners and come out winners.
"...satisfying comedy of modern manners. Clooney plays ace divorce attorney Miles Massey – confident, successful, and bored. Enter Marylin..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Two Weeks Notice
"...a roundabout turn of events, George hires Harvard-educated activist attorney Lucy Kelson (Bullock) to be his chief counsel. Liberal..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Thirteen Days
"...the White House between President Kennedy (Greenwood); his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy (Culp); and, both the President and..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Civil Action
"...and callous, buck-chasing cynicism (chiefly embodied by Beatrice's lead attorney, Jerome Facher, played by Duvall). Not that these elements..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Enemy of the State
"...other hot-button cyber-topics. Smith plays suave Washington, D.C. union attorney Robert Clayton Dean, who finds himself the target of..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Gingerbread Man
"...date. Branagh plays Savannah lawyer Rick Magruder, a high-powered attorney with a perfect conviction record and a weakness for..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Sweet Hereafter
"...of the unthinkable. Few people understand this better than attorney Mitchell Stephens (impeccably played by Ian Holm), who arrives..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Devil's Advocate
"...in his role as Kevin Lomax, a hotshot prosecuting attorney from Gainesville, Florida, who accepts an offer from a..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stephen King's Thinner
"...their feet. Billy Halleck (Burke) is a privileged Maine attorney who finds it much easier to keep gangsters out..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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