This week is Law Week at the school, which is fun. Last night, Wyoming Law Students for Equal Justice, of which I am the treasurer, hosted a great speaker. Kathleen Lord is the head of the Appellate Division of the Colorado Public Defender's Office. She recently won two big cases. One was a death penalty case which was reduced to life because the jurors brought in all kinds of bible passages to decide the sentence. In the other case, the defendant was in the car of a guy she knew when he decided to engage in a chase. She surrendered and was in custody. The man subsequently killed a police officer and the defendent was convicted of felony murder.
It was a really great talk and, sadly, the only one I've been able to go to all week. Unfortunately, we got our last case note drafts back on Monday, and the next submission is the publication decision. I also have been working to catch up with my classwork (and barely making it). Of course, our Administrative Law paper is due today, as well. This reminds me, special props out to Travis for taking on a bulk of the work in our group of putting our respective sections together. We will do well, I think.
Anyway, today is one of the more fun days of Law Week because the Wyoming Supreme Court is coming to the law school to hear arguments on two cases. I don't know if any students who are arguing today, but I'll mention it if there is one. There was last year.
One of the great benefits of this particular law school is that Wyoming has no intermediate appellate court system. This means that in the clinical programs, students frequently have the opportunity to argue cases before the Supreme Court. I wouldn't call it routine, but it certainly is not rare. Last year, I tried to do some live-blogging, but that didn't really go well. I won't even try this year. I will report at some point after, though probably not today; we have our formal dinner tonight, so I'll be pretty busy.
