John Wesley Hall writes on TalkLeft as "Last Night in Little Rock."

A criminal defense lawyer from Little Rock, Arkansas, he has tried hundreds of jury trials, and argued hundreds of appeals, including two before the U.S. Supreme Court. The second of those cases was Wilson v. Arkansas, holding that the Fourth Amendment at common law required police to knock-and-announce before entry.

He is the author of three legal treatises:

• Search and Seizure (3d ed. 2000), which is supplemented daily at Fourth Amendment.com.
  
• Professional Responsibility in Criminal Defense Practice (3d ed. 2005), which includes this virtual appendix and supplement and
• Trial Handbook for Arkansas Lawyers (4th ed. 2004-05)

John is an active member of the Special Court for Sierre Leone, where he is representing a defendant charged with war crimes.

He is President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and listed in Best Lawyers in America for criminal defense. He is actively involved in promoting ethics and professionalism for the criminal defense bar.

E-mail John Wesley Hall.

John Aravosis of America Blog is a credentialed blogger for G-8, blogging from Scotland. He's got great photos up. The bloggers flew over on the Live 8 plane from JFK, Bob Geldof met them at the airport and gave an impassioned speech. The protesters were also there.

Your choice, all topics, whatever's on your mind.

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Just a reminder...

skippy needs a million hits by July 13! Don't even think about it, just click here and help make it happen.

TBogg's got them.

Both of TalkLeft's premium ad spots come available this holiday weekend. With the regular ad strip filling up, I want to offer alternatives. So, I've reduced the premium ad price and changed the policy to allow two ads in the premium space on the right.

A Skippy rant.

Even without his witty rant on the topic of why cable tv talk show hosts turn our children into bullies, we'd tell you to go visit Skippy so he'll hit the million visitor mark by his third blogivarsary on July 13.

Update: Thanks to all who contributed. I'll be sending you individual thank yous this weekend. I feel like Sally Field..."You like me, you really like me."

Original Post:

Today is the second of two TalkLeft appreciation days. If you're a regular reader, and you can afford to show us some * heart *, please do. If you can't afford to, no problem, you're still welcome here.

• PayPal
  
• Amazon (anonymous)

Thanks to Mark at Dembloggers for putting up the video to my debate today on MSNBC's Connected Coast to Coast with Mark of Blogs for Bush.

WMV Link
MP3 Link

We talked about the growing influence of citizen journalists, I called on the President to consult with the Senate and nominate a consensus nominee, one show would respect constitutional rights and freedoms, and I endorsed 5th Circuit Judge Edward Prado (who, it was very cool to point out, was put on the federal bench by show host Ron Reagan's father, President Ronald Reagan.) It was a fun segment and Mark did a very good job representing his side.

I normally don't post pictures of myself on the front page of TalkLeft, but it's day two (and the last day) of TalkLeft Appreciation Days so I gave myself permission.

Ian at The Political Teen also has the video up of the segment.

Update: If you don't feel like watching, Bob Brigham at Swing State Project has a rough transcript of what I said. Thanks, Bob.

As of yesterday, blogs are dead.

Say hello to the Online Magazine Community. Others joining so far:

• Americablog
• Crooks & Liars
• Sadly, No!
• Swing State Project
• Law Dork
• Dispassionate Liberalism
• Chaos Digest
• The Political Forecast
• Seeing the Forest

TalkLeft is joining the community. We are now "the online magazine for liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news."

Update: Captain's Quarters will be remaining a blog.

Your turn. Have fun.