Dicta was conceived during New Lawyer training this year and carried to term by new lawyers Alejandro Ramos (Springfield DCU) and Andy Cowan (Lowell DCU). The blog will be serving sentences (as well as paragraphs, phrases, and even articles) at http://www.dictablog.net.

Dicta is intended to have a threefold mission: first, to give an agency full of storytellers a place to tell stories. Second, to give the general public an insight into the world of the criminal court and general legal news that they simply don’t get from the mass media. Third, to give CPCS an (unofficial) presence in the tightly interconnected public defender blogosphere.  Basically anything related to the law is on-topic.

Incorrigible Dicta will largely, if not entirely replace the “on the legal system” section of Mostly Plants. I may cross-post some articles, and occasionally post one here, but most of my legal commentary will be there.  Hopefully some of my readers will stick around for the travel and outdoor posts, though I notice my legal commentary is by far the most popular.