Category: Digital Advocate

Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff Some of my early essays in this column covered ways to make paragraphs better.[i] But it’s been a while since I returned to the idea of constructing good […]

Chief Justice G. Richard Bevan Delivered to the Idaho Senate and Idaho House of Representatives on January 18, 2023. Introductory Remarks Have you ever considered that Idaho’s courtrooms are the […]

Sarah E. Tompkins In recent years, the Idaho Supreme Court has been tasked with deciding issues that have a wide-ranging impact on the law in Idaho – many of these […]

Jonah J. Horwitz Most of the time, the lawyers who specialize in representing habeas petitioners in federal court are treated as curiosities by the rest of the criminal defense bar.  […]

Benjamin M. Onosko Introduction This article examines the modern police practice of conducting pretextual stops on the motoring public to initiate criminal investigations without reasonable suspicion or prior judicial approval; […]

K. Jill Bolton The phrase “pleading the Fifth” or “taking the Fifth” likely sparks different thoughts for different types of legal practitioners. Advising a client to assert his or her […]

Johnathan R. Baldauf At least 30.2% of American youth will be arrested by the time they are 23.[i] For parents of boys, the numbers are worse: 23-year-old young men are […]

Jessica A. Harrison Our post-COVID-19 world is undoubtedly a different world than the one we were accustomed to before 2020. We can self-administer nasal swabs just as naturally as we […]

Justin A. Bowles “Justice delayed too long is justice denied.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letters from Birmingham Jail Introduction Discovery, the right to have all the evidence the […]

Joseph N. Pirtle The work of Bar Counsel’s Office is primarily divided into four categories: (1) investigating and prosecuting alleged violations of the Idaho Rules of Professional Conduct; (2) assisting […]