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We are doing some upgrades to the blog.  There may be a few glitches along the way.

The ABAJ is out with its annual law-blog ("blawg") list, and we are pleased to see that C&C is on it again.  This year, our blog blurb is a quote from a C&C reader:

"For a prosecutor or anyone else who believes that people are responsible for their own actions and that justice for victims is at least as important as mercy for criminals, this blog serves up the good news." --Dennis J. Skayhan, Berks County (Pa.) District Attorney's Office

Thanks, Mr. Skayhan.  Glad you like it.

As usual, readers can vote for their favorite blog by category.  (Registration is required and has to be renewed annually.  But it's free and easy.)  There are seven criminal law blogs, of which five are defense-oriented.

Tomorrow is the due date for nominations for the ABA Journal's "annual list of the 100 best legal blogs."  These kinds of internet surveys don't actually mean much, but they're fun, so nominate your favorite law blog here.

The ABA Journal is out with its 5th annual list of the best 100 law blogs.  C&C is once again on the list.

You can vote for your favorite blog here through December 30.  (Registration required.)

This will mark my final post as a C&C blog author, as I have accepted a position in a local District Attorney's office and will soon enter the trial court world to prosecute misdemeanors.  Before I go, I would like to thank all of our C&C readers - your contributions to the blog have made my experience here even more enjoyable.

But this is not a final farewell.  Kent has offered to let me continue blogging here as a guest blogger, and I look forward to returning in this new role.

Thank you again.

Christine

SCOTUSblog's new forum is operational, with its heavily moderated, use-your-real-name comments.  Today's topic is Maples v. Thomas, but the actual questions range into habeas more generally.

It's good to see another legal blog where one can discuss serious issues without putting up with the juvenile twits who have nothing substantive to add, sling insults and profanity, and call everyone who disagrees with them a Nazi.

Every once in a while, I think we need to clarify our policies on comments.

I have turned comments back on.  Hopefully the technical problem that required turning them off has been fixed.  No guarantee, though. 

We will be doing some maintenance on the blog.  It may be unavailable at various times over the next couple of days.

Due to technical difficulties, the comments are turned off for the time being.

Our host informed us that the comment process was consuming an undue amount of processor capacity.  I'm not sure why this is.  We use a standard blog program, nothing fancy.  Anyway, until we get it figured out and fixed, the comments will have to remain off.