Guy Hamilton-Smith
@guyhamiltonsmith.com
Civil rights & criminal defense attorney. Amateur Giles Corey impressionist. Views expressed are mine, but they could be yours for a low low price.
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Bumper stickers, Toronto
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November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Bumper stickers, Toronto
babe wake up new MPRE question just dropped
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
babe wake up new MPRE question just dropped
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Sorry judge, I was ordered to violate Brady. 🤷
BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Sorry judge, I was ordered to violate Brady. 🤷
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I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
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Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi
We live in a very sick world.
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We live in a very sick world.
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dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods
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I bought a new TV and it literally forces me to watch an ad whenever I turn it on.
What in the black mirror is this
What in the black mirror is this
October 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I bought a new TV and it literally forces me to watch an ad whenever I turn it on.
What in the black mirror is this
What in the black mirror is this
Not for nothing, but there is a mechanism for federal defendants to seek reimbursement of legal expenses where they were wrongly prosecuted, but there's an exclusion if the defendant had a net worth of a mil or more.
Not, of course, rules necessarily matter right now.
Not, of course, rules necessarily matter right now.
October 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Not for nothing, but there is a mechanism for federal defendants to seek reimbursement of legal expenses where they were wrongly prosecuted, but there's an exclusion if the defendant had a net worth of a mil or more.
Not, of course, rules necessarily matter right now.
Not, of course, rules necessarily matter right now.
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App for Mike Johnson’s son to monitor his dad’s unconstitutional behavior
October 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
App for Mike Johnson’s son to monitor his dad’s unconstitutional behavior
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Efforts to “protect children” by censoring the open Internet have backfired spectacularly. Tor use is soaring — and with it, exposure to CSAM. I unpack the consequences in today’s Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy
Banning online anonymity tools like Tor won’t stop crime. It will only drive people underground and normalize government control over the internet
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Efforts to “protect children” by censoring the open Internet have backfired spectacularly. Tor use is soaring — and with it, exposure to CSAM. I unpack the consequences in today’s Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
this year I got to do two things I dreamed of doing for more than a decade: a sixth circuit oral argument, and I got to put my heart and soul into fighting for a client that didn't have someone to fight for them.
It's easy for me to lose sight of the fact that, yes, I am living the dream.
It's easy for me to lose sight of the fact that, yes, I am living the dream.
October 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
this year I got to do two things I dreamed of doing for more than a decade: a sixth circuit oral argument, and I got to put my heart and soul into fighting for a client that didn't have someone to fight for them.
It's easy for me to lose sight of the fact that, yes, I am living the dream.
It's easy for me to lose sight of the fact that, yes, I am living the dream.
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
With James and Comey, this is really the time for criminal defense lawyers to shine in terms of what really makes this country great
October 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
With James and Comey, this is really the time for criminal defense lawyers to shine in terms of what really makes this country great
I just learned that there's been a doxxing campaign involving me because im a board member at the national association for rational sex offense laws, which is pretty funny, because I had no idea it was happening. Isn't the point of a doxxing campaign to intimidate people? Disappointing.
October 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I just learned that there's been a doxxing campaign involving me because im a board member at the national association for rational sex offense laws, which is pretty funny, because I had no idea it was happening. Isn't the point of a doxxing campaign to intimidate people? Disappointing.
this is an insult to felons, tbh
How many felons do you think are working for ICE at this point? I definitely think it's a a non-zero number. If they weren't a felon when they started, I suspect many of them are...now.
October 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
this is an insult to felons, tbh
David Black, your smoke too tough, your swag too different, your bitch too bad, they'll kill you
October 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
David Black, your smoke too tough, your swag too different, your bitch too bad, they'll kill you
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It's a clown connected device. Just upload it to the clown
October 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
It's a clown connected device. Just upload it to the clown
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A little-known part of Jane Goodall’s legacy is that she helped place Roots + Shoots chapters inside jails in the U.S. and Italy. Some of the participants went on post-incarceration to careers in environmental protection. I met her in 2015 at the Boulder jail—still my all-time favorite assignment.
October 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A little-known part of Jane Goodall’s legacy is that she helped place Roots + Shoots chapters inside jails in the U.S. and Italy. Some of the participants went on post-incarceration to careers in environmental protection. I met her in 2015 at the Boulder jail—still my all-time favorite assignment.
The world is big and scary. But there will always be people in it who exhibit bravery and selflessness in the service of those who are vulnerable, and put themselves on the line for it.
That's what I want to focus on, that there are still people like that, willing to sacrifice for a stranger.
That's what I want to focus on, that there are still people like that, willing to sacrifice for a stranger.
October 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The world is big and scary. But there will always be people in it who exhibit bravery and selflessness in the service of those who are vulnerable, and put themselves on the line for it.
That's what I want to focus on, that there are still people like that, willing to sacrifice for a stranger.
That's what I want to focus on, that there are still people like that, willing to sacrifice for a stranger.
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I just finished my first habeas. My client's gonna win. I can feel it in my bones.
October 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I just finished my first habeas. My client's gonna win. I can feel it in my bones.