Criminal Defense

CNN.com reports here that the 1,000th execution is scheduled for next week. Hopefully this news will not knock the Jessica Simpson/Nick Lac...

The Fifth Amendment says in part that "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presen...

CNN.com reports here that we may have executed an innocent man. The original story appeared in the Houston Chronicle on Sunday, November 2...

Tom DeLay is in trouble. I'm not talking about the indictment last month, I'm talking about what will happen Monday, November 21. Th...

Remember Karl Rove? He's President Bush's pit bull - commonly referred to as the "architect" of, well, everything the Pres...

A white teacher able to hire one of the best criminal defense attorneys in Florida gets house arrest for leaving the scene of an accident th...

A great editorial in the St Petersburg Times viewed here criticizes the sure passage of the Streamlined Procedures Act of 2005. I know, you...

Looks like a treat on Halloween for the right-wing conservative movement today. No grim reaper - rather the vote that will overturn Roe v. W...

I know I still do not have power from Hurricane Wilma, but can someone please tell me that I was dreaming when I heard the following comment...

Vice President Dick Cheney said today in response to the federal indictment of his chief of staff "Scooter" Libby, that he was.......

It's not that I've had nothing to say in the last week - it's that Hurricane Wilma knocked me out of my home, and off the intern...

While sitting here waiting to see whether Hurricane Wilma will be visiting us here in Miami, I note two recent stories where criminal defens...

CNN.com reports here that a man who spent 19 years in prison was released after it was discovered that he was framed. The detective who put...

Anthony Lorenzo is out of prison, and you all are not making him feel very welcome. He was angry enough to pen a well written editorial to t...

Ah - the sound of raging conservatives and cheering liberals. What could it be? The anxiously awaited nomination of President Bush's nom...

The movie "Birdcage" is a beautiful depiction of the inherent dislike and discomfort between ultra right-wing conservatives and le...

What can I say? Woman Ticketed for Sitting on a Playground Bench with No Kids (New York-AP, Sept. 27, 2005) - It's an only in New York s...

Gilberto Rodriguez-Orejuela is in custody in Miami's Federal Detention Center waiting for a visit from his new lawyer. Gilberto Rodrigue...

Florida Governor Jeb Bush is living the commonly heard phrase "everyone hates criminal defense lawyers, until their kid is busted for s...

So he should of done it a couple days after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. I don't care - he did it, and it was the right thing to do. Toda...