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	<description>Jim Diamond is a criminal defense attorney</description>
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		<title>Political Journalism in 2012: Where To Look For Analysis of The Candidates</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2012/01/02/political-journalism-2012-where-to-look-for-analysis-of-the-candidates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Diamond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[" "2012 Election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA["Presidential Election Coverage"?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Water water everywhere, not a drop to drink. That’s how I feel about the political journalism covering the upcoming Republican presidential primaries.  If you’re a Republican voter (which I&#8217;m not) and you want to figure out whom to vote for in the upcoming primaries,  where do you look for detailed information? Candidate messaging is exceptionally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case For Neighborhood Shops</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2011/08/20/the-case-for-neighborhood-shops/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2011/08/20/the-case-for-neighborhood-shops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Diamond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bookstores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CVS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ebay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neighborhood shops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmacies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[record stores]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite activities is browsing and lingering at bookstores and record stores. You can still do that in most major cities, but in the suburbs, it has become quite a challenge; unfortunately my best shot is at the mall.  And, like most men, the mall experience, with it vast parking lots, multiple levels, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring Back The Voting Booth</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2010/12/03/bring-back-the-voting-booth/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2010/12/03/bring-back-the-voting-booth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Diamond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballot Access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting booths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting privacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a month since Election Day and I’ve been thinking about the way we vote.  Maybe I’m nostalgic, but I miss the old “voting booths.” There will be a day, no doubt, when the memory of the “voting booth” will go the way of the “phone booth.” I guess what I really miss is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Guy Everybody Wants To Lose</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2010/11/11/the-guy-everybody-wants-to-lose/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2010/11/11/the-guy-everybody-wants-to-lose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Diamond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cheshire Murder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death Penalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Invasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petit Murder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Hayes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Ullman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You think you have a tough job? Try being Thomas Ullman. Ullman has spent the last three years defending Steven Hayes. After unsuccessfully defending Hayes at trial, Ullman, a public defender, spent the last few weeks trying to convince a New Haven jury that his client’s life should be spared. The jury, this week, disagreed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecticut Courts Require Candidates to Follow The Law</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2010/09/15/connecticut-courts-require-candidates-to-follow-the-law/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2010/09/15/connecticut-courts-require-candidates-to-follow-the-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Diamond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently represented The Stamford Democratic Party in a Stamford Court trial, Caterbone vs. Bysiewicz, where the Party joined the Connecticut Secretary of State in objecting to James Caterbone’s request that the Court order the Secretary of State to place him on the ballot as a candidate for the State House of Representatives. In that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fix it or Toss It? Of Freegans and Hoarders</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2010/06/28/fix-it-or-toss-it-of-freegans-and-hoaders/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2010/06/28/fix-it-or-toss-it-of-freegans-and-hoaders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Diamond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freegans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hoarders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recycle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salvation Army]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A&#38;E has a show called Hoarders. They are the people who have massive amounts of stuff and never throw anything out. I don’t think I’m a hoarder. I just can’t see throwing out things that have intrinsic value, and will take up valuable space in landfills. I try to donate stuff to charity when I’m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizen’s Elections Are Underway in Connecticut</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2010/05/18/citizen%e2%80%99s-elections-are-underway-in-connecticut/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2010/05/18/citizen%e2%80%99s-elections-are-underway-in-connecticut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 19:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Diamond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Malloy has done something extraordinary, and something nobody else in Connecticut politics has done before him. In his quest to obtain the Democratic Party nomination to run for Governor of Connecticut, the former Stamford Mayor has raised more than $250,000 in over 4,000 small individual donations of $100 or less. That’s quite an accomplishment. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dentist Envy</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2010/03/29/dentist-envy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2010/03/29/dentist-envy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Diamond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[criminal lawyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dentist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occupations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[root canal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I envy my dentist. I know that runs contrary to conventional thinking, but it’s true. I envy him because as a dentist, he has the capacity to do what I, as a criminal lawyer, can never do. I was a bad patient. I cracked a tooth and rather than tackle the problem, I ignored it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can We Afford To Rebuild Afghanistan and Iraq Now?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2010/02/05/can-we-afford-to-rebuild-afghanistan-and-iraq-now/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2010/02/05/can-we-afford-to-rebuild-afghanistan-and-iraq-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Diamond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Wyman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State of The Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[James Carville’s 1992 words of political wisdom, “It&#8217;s the economy, stupid,” are an even more appropriate  analysis of today’s American electoral politics than they were in 1992.  Americans are scared, as Robert Reich recently wrote, “Voters are petrified of losing their jobs, their homes and what’s left of their savings.” There is really nothing that a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorist Trial Should Be Conducted in Federal Court In New York</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2009/11/30/terrorist-trial-should-be-conducted-in-federal-court-in-new-york/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2009/11/30/terrorist-trial-should-be-conducted-in-federal-court-in-new-york/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Diamond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Holder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khalid Shaikh Mohammed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Trade Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[United States Attorney General Eric Holder and The Obama Administration were presented with a choice. They could have chosen to submit Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the four other alleged 9/11 terrorists to face prosecution either in federal court by federal prosecutors before a federal judge conducted under federal law and procedure, or in the alternative, could have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Brother Was Watching Raymond Clark</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2009/11/25/big-brother-was-watching-raymond-clark/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2009/11/25/big-brother-was-watching-raymond-clark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Diamond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Big Brother is watching you. In Connecticut most arrests are made when the police show up on-site and make an immediate arrest.  In many states the other method would be by a grand jury indictment, but not Connecticut.  The second method here is where police ask a Superior Court Judge to approve an arrest warrant. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Oprah have Put Charla Nash on National Televsion?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2009/11/16/should-oprah-have-put-charla-nash-on-national-televsion/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/diamond/2009/11/16/should-oprah-have-put-charla-nash-on-national-televsion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Diamond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charla Nash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chimp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oprah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandra Herold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stamford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Can We Blame Oprah for Putting Charla Nash on TV? Charla Nash appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show on November 11. Nash is the victim of the horrific attack by a 200-pound adult chimpanzee owned by her friend and employer Sandra Herold in my hometown of Stamford, Connecticut. Nash deserves a world of credit for [...]]]></description>
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