Criminal Defense

From the Sun Sentinel : Miami-Dade man reports fire, arrested when officials find pot lab in home A man who reported a fire at his Miami-Da...

CNN.com reports that jail and prison populations rose 2.6 percent last year. The Sentencing Project, an advocacy group, reports that the U....

What can I say? BALTIMORE -- Baltimore City police arrested a Virginia couple over the weekend after they asked an officer for directions. W...

Rape cases have become a lightening rod for victims rights advocates and defense lawyers alike. Because they are often a "he said-she s...

The now public three-ring-circus, former serious rape investigation against players from the Duke Lacrosse Team, is a lesson in, well, just ...

In the 1981 movie Absence of Malice , starring Paul Newman and Sally Field, Wilford Brimley plays a United States Attorney investigating the...

No, I don't mean that ending a pregnancy under the question of when does life begin is the same as debating whether to allow illegal ali...

Today's Miami Herald.com has the full text of Jack Abramoff's Memorandum In Aid Of Sentencing and Index of Letters that were sent to...

The headline leaves little to say. The story is here . Let's watch this one.

Where's the frenzy? Now that Abramoff has entered his guilty plea ( DOJ Press Release ) Jack Abramoff will be sentenced this week, We...

The second autopsy of beaten-to-death Martin Lee Anderson, shows that he did not die of natural causes. As Gomer Pyle used to say "Surp...

I wish I could tell you I remember this day (March 5) in history in 1969, but it was about 4 months before I was born when an arrest warrant...

I've never written about a comment that someone wrote in response to one of my posts. Most of them are thoughtful disagreements that rai...

I just returned from Little Rock where my client took a plea in the largest computer theft indictment in U.S history. The victim was Acxiom...

To the "tough on crime" tunnel vision morons, Martin Lee Anderson was a boy who committed a crime and "oh well," died in...

I often wonder if judges think about their legacy. Sometimes I walk in a courtroom and it becomes clear to me that there are judges who coul...

Miami Federal District Court Judges Federico Moreno and Marcia Cooke, take a bow. ( I currently have no cases before either Judge.) You have...

I just found a great site out there for criminal defense attorneys. (Ok, I found it because they link to my blog - thanks guys!) It's t...

Fellow blogger David O. Markus has a great debate going on his highly acclaimed Southern District of Florida Blog on the issue of who shoul...

After a presentation on indigent defense the other day, a former President of The Florida Bar followed me outside to express his passionate ...