By Allison Margolin
Today is the craziest day in news because President Bush has admitted what some of us already knew: that this nation is under martial law and it's getting worse. President Bush announced that he wants and will ask congress to agree that convictions based on coerced evidence is admissible. In the words of the article in today's LA Times, Bush's Plan Allows Coerced Evidence, A1, this system is "military style."
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Tabloid Fever? Gimme a "Break"!
By J Rausch
All over town, celebrities jeer at "tabloid fever," as if all of Los Angeles is infested with some outrageous desire to puncture their inner souls. As if we’re sitting at home waiting for a self-proclaimed family man to reveal his shrine of inhumanity, or for a child star to fall. Sure, tabloid companies salivate at these stories, eager to de-sensationalize and defy what has become known as "Hollywood glamour." ...continued
LA Times profiles my life, and documents a day I won a decision involving one hundered-fifty marijuana plants, and also got an order granting the return of the plants.
"The original LA's Dopest Attorney Youtube
"Allison Margolin calls herself Los Angeles’s “dopest attorney.” The 28-year-old graduate of Beverly Hills High, Columbia University and Harvard Law School has her own blog and promotional video on YouTube. Today, the Los Angeles Times helps her cause with a colorful profile of the ambitious young criminal defense lawyer.." Wall Street Journal
By Allison Margolin
I love "Girls Next Door,” the reality show about Hugh Hefner and his three girlfriends.Some people criticize that, thinking it's superficial or a prurient display of nudity. But as someone who has wanted to be in Playboy before I even understood the word sexuality, the show is a welcome insight into the lives of those who make a career of their sexuality. ....Continued
By Allison Margolin
It’s funny yet typical that 30 minutes ago I wondered what I was going to write about, and then I heard that the DEA had shut down several cannabis clubs and were waiting at the homes of doctors known for recommending marijuana....continued
Letters from Berkeley
By Allison Margolin
"Put it in your eye."A security guard at a popular SF rave club is pointing to eye drops she has taken from my pocket...continued
February 2002 With Inspiration from Devorah Cohen, Boalt '02
Letters From Berkeley
I'm experiencing a break withdrawal but am ready for the beginning of the end. That's how I feel as I sit at my computer listening to Too Short, getting high by myself, in Berkeley, Calif.
Letters from Berkeley
By Allison Margolin
I came to Berkeley to know that I wasn't crazy. I came here because I knew that there are crazier people than me, and that I can learn from them.Nothing is as it appears. That's why we go to Harvard; it's why our parents want us to go there.
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