adventures of pro se litigants
Writ Writer on PBS Independent Lens
The PBS series Independent Lens features the documentary Writ Writer featuring jailhouse lawyer Fred Cruz.
By most measures, Cruz was an ordinary criminal. But in prison he studied law in order to file an appeal of his conviction and 50-year prison sentence. Before long the harsh field labor, brutal corporal punishments and arbitrary disciplinary hearings experienced […]
One Injunction Away from Armageddon
Oh to be a clerk on this court, for this case - a federal court in Hawaii is tasked with considering the following claim:
Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a […]
Inmate’s False Liens Claims drag Federal Judges into Court as Witnesses
Though I’ve heard plenty of stories of jail-house lawyers, Mycal Antoine Poole seems to have taken it to a new level. Serving 60 years for aggravated sexual assault of a child, Poole then filed several liens (wikipedia definition) with the Texas Secretary of State’s Office against U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks and U.S. Magistrate Judge […]