No habeas cases to be heard this week.
A couple of weeks ago, I briefly discussed law in comic books. Sort of related is the law cartoon. And there are a lot of those. Most of them are pretty unclever as they focus, for the most part, on lawyer and legal stereotypes.
But I did find one set of cartoons that are very clever substantively. In other words, they are appealing to lawyers. Even more important to me, there are some habeas-related ones! Now that's something you won't see in the pages of The New Yorker.
And the not-so-surprising reason why they are so appealing to lawyers is that the author himself is a lawyer.
The cartoons are called Stu's Views. For copyright purposes, I won't put images here. But the one currently on his home page is really just a classic criminal appellate lawyer joke. I highly recommend clicking on the link to check it out.
As I mentioned above, there are very entertaining habeas-related ones. I did a search for habeas and found some classics - cartoons for Teague v. Lane (retroactivity), Barker v. Wingo (speedy trial), Mickens v. Taylor (conflict of interest), Wainwright v. Sykes (procedural default), Herrera v. Collins (actual innocence).
A lot of fun for habeas-minded people. Go explore the site.
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