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Tag Archives: Barbara Lawall

Hoops

A couple of weeks back, Barbara Lawall made a finding that the numerous aspirants/explorers/not candidates were not in violation of the resign to run law. This not only got rid of a quintal of material for Greg Patterson to do his “those darned lawless Democrats” posts, but made the rest of us wonder what the [...]

So, Is This Going to be the All Purpose Excuse?

Tonight’s All Things Considered includes a story about Dennis Hastert’s gripe that Paul Charlton wouldn’t prosecute marijuana smuggling cases of less than 500 pounds. The host interviewed our own Barbara Lawall to find out how this affected local prosecutors. She complained about the “triage” that she must engage in because she is forced to devote [...]

Lawall Gets a Primary Challenge?

Assistant Attorney General Paul Eckerstrom is being talked up as a candidate to run against Barbara Lawall for County Attorney. Eckerstrom had been talked about before, but the talk seems to be a bit more serious now. Eckerstrom has worked both sides of the courtroom, as a public defender and as a prosecutor. He currently [...]