Category — 2007 Rodneys

Now that voting has ended (and I apologize for the delay - an emergency at work swamped me), it is time to officially announce the winners. At the end of this post are two different sizes of badges you can display on your blog. Thank you to all the bloggers for your outstanding work and to all those that voted for the amazing turnout. So, without further ado, the winners are:

Public Defender Blogger You’d Like to Be When You Grow Up

 Arbitrary and Capricious

 Runner Up:
Capital Defense Weekly

 Best Blog By A Male PD

 Scoplaw

 Runner up:

 Arbitrary and Capricious

 Best Blog By A Female PD

Ipse Dixit

 Runner up:

 Woman in Black

 Best Writing

 Public Defender Dude

 Runner up:

 Scoplaw

 Best Blog That Deals With The Law

 Capital Defense Weekly

 Runner up:

 Arbitrary and Capricious

 Best New PD Blog

 The Bardd Before The Bar

 Runners up:

 Malum In Se

 Woman in Black

 Best Blog By A PD That Has Nothing To Do With The Job

 The Dream Antilles

 Runner up:

 The Rural Bus Route

 Best Design

The Bardd Before The Bar

 Runner up:

 Swan Lake Samba Girl

 Best Federal Circuit Blog

 Ninth Circuit Blog

 Runner up:

 Second Circuit Blog

 Best Blog Title

 Doubtslinger

Runner up:

 Fight ‘Em ‘Til We Can’t

 Best Blog By A Public Defender Investigator

 Tales of a Public Defender Investigator

For those who want, here are some badges to display on your blog

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Voting for The Rodneys has now ended! Thank you to everyone for the tremendous support. I don’t know how many voted last year, but this year we had an average of 60 votes per category! That’s phenomenal for such a small community as ours.

There will be a results thread soon and I’ll have a badge for you to proudly display on your own blog.

The Nominees are:

• Arbitrary and Capricious
• Capital Defense Weekly
• Malum In Se
• Woman in Black
• Woman of the Law

Remember, these are just my nominations. If you’d like to write in a vote, go right ahead. Make sure you read the comments (if any) before you vote to see if there are any write-in votes.

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The nominees are:

• The Imbroglio
• The Rural Bus Route
• Swan Lake Samba Girl
• The Bardd Before The Bar

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The Nominees are:

• Fight ‘Em ‘Til We Can’t
• Indignant Indigent
• I Defend The Accused
• Doubtslinger

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The Nominees are:

• Woman of the Law
• Scoplaw
• Public Defender Dude
• The Imbroglio
• Woman in Black

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The Nominees are (all of them):

• Eighth Circuit Blog
• Fifth Circuit Blog
• First Circuit Federal Defender Blog
• Fourth Circuit Blog
• Kansas Federal Defender
• Ninth Circuit Blog
• Second Circuit Blog
• Seventh Circuit Blog
• Sixth Circuit Blog
• Tenth Circuit Blog
• Third Circuit Blog

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The Nominees are:

• Arbitrary and Capricious
• Capital Defense Weekly
• Malum In Se
• Woman In Black

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The Nominees are:

• The Rural Bus Route
• The Suburban Ecstacies
• Swan Lake Samba Girl
• Dream Antilles

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The Nominees are:

• Arbitrary and Capricious
• Scoplaw
• Capital Defense Weekly
• Infinity Ranch

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The Nominees are:

• Woman of the Law
• Woman in Black
• Ipse Dixit
• audacity

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It’s voting time! Pick your favorite new public defender blog from the list below. Then, spread the word!

The Nominees are:

• Malum In Se
• Curia Advisari Vult
• Woman in Black
• I Defend The Accused
• The Bardd Before The Bar

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Just a quick reminder to everyone, now that all the nomination threads have gone live, the actual voting (yes, yes, I know) will begin on Wednesday. I’ve updated the polls plugin, so things will be easier (hopefully). As Greg said last year, given that we are pds, we’ll probably end up getting 10 votes and if we don’t, I’ll pick the winners.

If you want to avoid that, remember to vote! Also, spread the word! I mean, like everywhere. Go and comment and tell people to come vote. E-mail your long lost cousin and while you do, extol the virtues of public defenders and ask them to vote. If you don’t have any cousins, don’t worry. Just vote.

Okay, well, you don’t have to do that. Just plug the Rodneys on your blog and remember to come by every day to vote.

Wednesday. Voting Begins. Your country depends on you.

Figure that one out.

Finally, we come to the “Best Picture” category. Of all the public defender blogs out there, which one is the best? Which is your favorite?

This category I will leave open. Nominate the blogs you think are most deserving.

Who says public defenders don’t dress well or look sloppy? You’d never know given the ways these public defender bloggers have dressed their blogs. These will be among the nominees for ‘Best Design’.

• The Imbroglio - Last year’s winner and deservedly so. This blog is among the best out there in terms of visual appeal, usability and dissemination of information in a non-cluttered way.
• The Rural Bus Route - This blog shows you what you can do with Blogger despite the inherent limitations. I bet you couldn’t even tell it was a Blogger blog.
• Swan Lake Samba Girl - The artist in her shines through her design of this blog. From the beautiful header image, to the liberal use of images throughout, this is a very visually pleasing blog.
• The Bardd Before The Bar - Just because WordPress gives you lots of themes, doesn’t mean people always know which ones to use and how to modify them. This is not one of those blogs.
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