Doug Gladden @dougthelawyer.bsky.social

Appellate Lawyer. Public Defender. Board Certified—Criminal Appellate Law. Licensed in Texas and Georgia. #AppellateTwitter #AppellateSky

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
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Back then, low end nobleman would hear about Versailles, and tell their builders to make them Temu Versailles. This is temu those places.
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Mathew Helman @mathelman.bsky.social
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OVERHEARD: Two astronauts grumbling as they exited the capsule that they had paid a hefty premium for extra legroom and were disappointed by the space allotted.
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IN N OUT IS BETTER THAN WHATABURGER THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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This is what we call "chutzpah" in the appellate world
#appellatesky
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Carl Cecere @carlcecere.bsky.social
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Answering the age-old legal-writing koan:

Can a brief be a single paragraph and still be unnecessarily long?
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This is the entirety of the "argument" in a reply brief filed by two licensed attorneys in Texas.

Dear reader, the appellant did not prevail.
#appellatesky
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But this is right
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America is now Billy Bob Thornton
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
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Bill Nye the Science Guy
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youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?si=Ds_ZHAJVC1NCYbTj
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Not just him but every person executing his orders at this point must be charged with war crimes if and when the Dems ever take power again. Or better yet we should finally sign up to join the International Criminal Court and just hand them all over to the Hague.
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Evergreen
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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social
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"Unrestricted birthright citizenship contradicts the practice of the overwhelming majority of modern nations."

Chat, I am old enough to remember when citation of other Nation's laws to interpret ours was a high crime or misdemeanor among Republicans.
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Autocorrect is the most underused tool for lawyers in Office.

Some of my favorites:
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Ctrl+Shift+V
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A statewide Texas criminal appeals firm, staffed with only my hand-picked group of attorneys, paid on the Cravath scale, that represents only indigent clients.
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Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid
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Eve Brensike Primus @primuseve.bsky.social
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Happy Gideon Day! Thank you to all of the public defenders in the trenches who fight every day to bend the arc of the law a little more toward justice.
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc
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Two rules, one conventional, the other rather not:
1. No more than three levels of headings. There are other ways to break up text.
2. Scientific numbering. “1”, “1.2”, “1.2.3”, etc. No one knows what “(v)” floating three inches in from the left margin means.
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Doug Gladden @dougthelawyer.bsky.social
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March 6th! 🤠
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Pop quiz: What year is being described?
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This is bananas
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