I took the LSAT test on a bet, without a preparation course, and with a hangover…
Author: Gary Beatty
Gary Beatty lives between Florida and Pagosa Springs. He retired after 30 years as a prosecutor for the State of Florida, has a doctorate in law, is Board Certified in Criminal Trial law by the Florida Supreme Court, and is now a law professor.
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Jury Duty
I’m going to tell you why some lawyers don’t want lawyers on either criminal or civil (lawsuit) juries… because we know when they are trying to obfuscate the facts with tricks…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Danger Inherent in Police ‘Theories’
If you want to know what the evidence actually is, you have to hear it from the prosecutors…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: An Attorney’s View of an Attorney’s Claims
Nothing in the Sales Tax Act (Act) precludes the County Commission from subsequently re-allocating the revenues to non-road purposes….
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season, the Sequel
There was also a LOT of debris from the numerous trees on our property. I’m still in the process of cleaning that up…
OPINION: Facebook Fascism? Part Two
A definition of Facism is “A way of organizing a society in which a government controls the lives of the people – and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government…”
OPINION: Facebook Fascism? Part One
This clinical evidence that COVID vaccines contain compounds that have been shown to cause blood clots is significant…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Great Raid
This column isn’t about the reprehensible political motive for the raid. There has been enough bloviating on that topic. I’m writing here about the legality of it…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Five Supreme Court Decisions, Part Five
All five of these case stand for the same principle. The limits of government power over the people…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Five Supreme Court Decisions, Part Four
Parents could choose a school for their kids to attend, and the state would pay the tuition. But the funding law prohibited funding sectarian school tuition…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Five Supreme Court Decisions, Part Three
In some states Dobbs won’t effect abortion access at all. Some states may choose to regulate, or outlaw, all abortions.
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Five Supreme Court Decisions, Part Two
The EPA bureaucrats belatedly realized that the rule exceeded their statutory authority, and that they had stepped in it…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Five Supreme Court Decisions, Part One
The reaction to those decisions, particularly from some politicians and the media who disagreed with them, reflects a breathtaking ignorance of history and the law…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Considering the Harm from the COVID Vaccines
“While you would never know it from listening to public-health officials, not a single published study has demonstrated that patients with a prior infection benefit from COVID-19 vaccination…”
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Science, and Junk-Science, Regarding Masks
So it seems that mandating facemasks may have contributed to, rather than prevented, the most serious cases of COVID infection…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: America’s Economic Crisis
First, no nation in human history has ever incurred the level of national debt with which our government is currently burdened…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: The Case for Overturning Roe v Wade
I support abortion on demand for the first trimester, and after that if the mother’s life is in danger. Don’t know on which side of the debate that labels me….
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: More American History, for Mr. Bryant’s Edification
Mr. Bryant needs to show us where, and by whom, the Constitution was re-written. When was it ratified? Perhaps he can show us the records of the debates…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: All Rise!
It’s first words “We, the people of the State of Colorado” declare in whom authority over all aspects of the state government ultimately resides…