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Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 27, 2013 34 Comments
As the nation was gripped by the George Zimmerman trial, over 50 people were shot in Chicago…many of them as young and black as the much publicized Trayvon Martin. With shootings seemingly so rampant, Chicago area parents are worried about the safety of their children. ...

Posted by Andrew Branca on August 25, 2013 44 Comments
The much ballyhooed efforts to repeal the Stand Your Ground law in Florida have suffered an ignominious and well-deserved death. An enormous and bi-partisan majority of Florida legislators —72%– this week overwhelmingly declined to hold a special session for the purpose of even debating the...

Posted by New Neo on August 23, 2013 27 Comments
Yesterday the WSJ published an editorial on the Christopher Lane case: Some are focusing on the ease of obtaining a gun in the U.S., as (inevitably) is the reflexive CNN, and it would almost be a relief if we could blame such a murder on guns....

Posted by Andrew Branca on August 19, 2013 72 Comments
Via Amanda Turkel at Huffington Post comes news that The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has released a video “reenactment” of the shooting of Trayvon Martin in order to encourage people to oppose “Stand Your Ground Laws”: The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has released a...

Posted by Andrew Branca on August 18, 2013 36 Comments
We’ll be covering the second degree murder trial of Merritt Landry, who was charged with second degree attempted murder for his shooting 14-year-old Marshall Coulter (described as a “professional thief” by his brother in news reports). Coulter had scaled a spiked metal fence to enter...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 12, 2013 9 Comments
Almost certainly. There couldn’t possibly be any other reason why they didn’t show her the $38,000 pocketbook: Seems like a case of Oprah upset at not being recognized as Oprah so … racist! Have you hugged your College Insurrection bloggers today? “Thank You Leslie and Aleister”...

Posted by Andrew Branca on August 07, 2013 64 Comments
It is perhaps inevitable that comparisons will be drawn between the  recently completed murder/self-defense trial of George Zimmerman in Florida and the just beginning travails of self-defense shooter Merritt Landry in New Orleans. Indeed, I’ve already begun to do so myself (see “Zimmerman Redux: The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2013 73 Comments
Of course, the two cases bear no resemblance at so many levels. But Oprah can’t help herself, and debases the memory of Emmett Till by comparing Till’s whistling at a white woman and subsequent beating death to the violence perpetrated by Trayvon Martin upon George Zimmerman who...

Posted by Andrew Branca on August 06, 2013 52 Comments
Hey folks, I just wanted to take a moment to drop a note sharing the news that Professor Jacobson has kindly invited me to continue blogging here at Legal Insurrection, and I have gratefully accepted. Of course, my frequency of posting won’t be at the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 03, 2013 5 Comments
That would be me. T-shirt idea:  “We engaged in institutional racism to fight white privilege, and all we got was more white privilege”: Elite colleges fail to enroll minority students T-shirt idea: “We threw money at the U.S. News rankings, and all we got were...

Posted by New Neo on August 02, 2013 30 Comments
So now we have word that the Smithsonian is “eyeing” Trayvon Martin’s hoodie for its new branch, the National Museum of African American History and Culture. According to the branch’s director Lonnie Bunch: It became the symbolic way to talk about the Trayvon Martin case…It’s...

Posted by Andrew Branca on July 31, 2013 37 Comments
Of the 50 states in the US, 49 of them require the State to disprove a defendant’s claim of self-defense, beyond a reasonable doubt. Ohio, on the other hand, requires that the defendant prove self-defense by a preponderance of the evidence. Why is Ohio Such...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 29, 2013 18 Comments
Some Californians are giving new meaning to the phrase “surfing the web”. Large-scale rioting in the wake of the George Zimmerman trial verdict failed to materialize as predicted; however, after hosting a national surfing competition this weekend, a California beach town was the site of...
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