Naming Names and Plagiarism in Criminal Defense Blogs

Courtesy Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Sun, 03/09/2008 - 11:37pm

Houston defense attorney Mark Bennett is understandably outraged to see that fellow criminal law blogger David Finn has reproduced the Department of Justice’s press release about Mark’s client as his own work. Mark’s concern, as always, is for his own client, who thanks to this “Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer” has his name besmirched before a jury can even be selected. 

Others, myself included, consider it plagiarism to not even attribute the DOJ in the post, not to link to...


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