Morning Docket

Morning Docket 12.26.08

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* Every president over the past 30 years has had to speak with a federal prosecutor. “Here the guy hasn’t even gotten his tuxedo for the ball yet and already there’s a prosecutor who wants to talk him,” says Skadden’s Robert Bennett, about Barack Obama’s new record for being interviewed by investigators in the Blagojevich scandal. [New York Times]

* How’d Marc Dreier do it? Lots of chutzpah. [Bloomberg]

* Among these 12 angry men, there was a lustful couple. A convicted killer is appealing and demanding a new trial, because things got hot and steamy between two sequestered jurors. [Courthouse News Service]

* A judge in Georgia should win an award for cultural insensitivity. Judge Keith Rollins sent a Muslim woman to jail for wearing her hijab in court, as she was violating a courtroom rule against head coverings. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]

* And you thought your law school experience was rough. [Wichita Eagle via TaxProf Blog]

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