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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For the rest of my life I will refer to him as “Justice Kavanaugh Stop”
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
For the rest of my life I will refer to him as “Justice Kavanaugh Stop”
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New from Kevin Light-Roth: Tim Ballard promoted the use of sting operations to combat sex trafficking until his own sexual misconduct allegations tore his career to shreds. Now, the families of men he helped send to prison are demanding answers: theappeal.org/net-nanny-wa...
Tim Ballard’s Reputation is in Shambles. The Americans He Helped Arrest Want Answers.
After Ballard’s fall, the people he helped arrest in Washington want to know why no one seems willing to take a second look at their cases.
theappeal.org
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
New from Kevin Light-Roth: Tim Ballard promoted the use of sting operations to combat sex trafficking until his own sexual misconduct allegations tore his career to shreds. Now, the families of men he helped send to prison are demanding answers: theappeal.org/net-nanny-wa...
Litigating the question of whether or not sex offense registries are punishment feels weird, because it's like you're talking a different language than the rest of the world uses. It's colloquially seen as a punishment, but exist without the constitutional protections that accompany punishment.
December 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Litigating the question of whether or not sex offense registries are punishment feels weird, because it's like you're talking a different language than the rest of the world uses. It's colloquially seen as a punishment, but exist without the constitutional protections that accompany punishment.
still, I am grateful I get to put my back into something I believe in, and that I know I'm right about, even if it's not popular, even if it won't make me a ton of money or friends.
being a lawyer is great until you have to write a brief, good god
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
still, I am grateful I get to put my back into something I believe in, and that I know I'm right about, even if it's not popular, even if it won't make me a ton of money or friends.
being a lawyer is great until you have to write a brief, good god
December 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
being a lawyer is great until you have to write a brief, good god
I had a scan of a subpoena I needed to straighten out and deskew, and I thought I could use AI to do that. It did a great job of cleaning up the document, but then it also completely mangled the words on the document making it unusable.
So close, yet so far.
So close, yet so far.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I had a scan of a subpoena I needed to straighten out and deskew, and I thought I could use AI to do that. It did a great job of cleaning up the document, but then it also completely mangled the words on the document making it unusable.
So close, yet so far.
So close, yet so far.
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how i begin my Conclusion
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
how i begin my Conclusion
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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.
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