Criminal Defense

Those who have not had too much egg nog this holiday season may know that there is a big to do about the National Security Administration (N...

The maximum penalty for contempt almost anywhere, including Dallas, Texas, is 6 months in jail. Walter Mann, spent an extra 9, for a total o...

The always-on-top-of-things DRUDGE REPORT picks up a story from the AP that a teenager has plead guilty to manslaughter after it was disco...

The New York Times reports that President Bush secretly lifted some limits on spying in the United States after 9/11 by secretly authorizin...

Wilton Dedge, once a convicted felon who served 22 years in prison, is today a millionaire, twice over. He could give a crap. He was innocen...

It's the same old story. Defendant convicted. Defendant proclaims innocence. Cops say right guy. Prosecutors say right guy. DNA says wro...

Stanley "Tookie" Williams will not be granted clemency. He will die for the crimes for which he has been convicted. On any Vegas s...

Right of the right-wing Congressman Tom DeLay......had a criminal defense lawyer get him off on a technicality. Fox News has the story here ...

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...