Criminal Defense

After criticism of a slow investigation, yesterday, 7 guards and a nurse were arrested in Florida for aggravated manslaughter against a chil...

This Thanksgiving I am thankful for: 1. Families Against Minimum Mandatories ( FAMM ). A real organization, with real goals, and the most pr...

Big buzz about the newest member of Congress from Minnesota being a Muslim. He's also a criminal defense lawyer. Read about Representat...

An accused rapist in India is getting slapped in the face 51 times as his "sentence." They can't prove the case because the wo...

A lawyer in Maine has been arrested for, get this, "criminal threatening," for dressing up as Bin Laden and waving a fake gun. Any...

Rush Limbaugh, pictured at right of course, is angry, not at liberal left-wing democrats, or tax and spend republicans, but of all people ...

Contrary to popular belief, we criminal defense lawyers support the war on terror. Seriously. We don't want bombs blowing up our buildin...

A special comment about lying Keith Olbermann on the difference between terrorists and critics SPECIAL COMMENT By Keith Olbermann Anchor, ...

Drudge has it.

From now resigned Republican Congressman Mark Foley's website: "he has supported a host of measures to strengthen the ability of la...

A story in today's St. Pete Times reports that an ABA study on Florida's Death Penalty finds the need for "substantial reform ...

The buzz is that this woman who's kid went missing, shot herself after being grilled by Nancy Grace about whether she was the killer of ...

It's not even a date anymore, it's a historical term, like only one other date - July 4th. The two of course have opposite meanings....

I recently met with a majority of the Past Presidents of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers ( FACDL ) where a discussion er...

And then he kept talking. And talking. And talking. Now, it appears that within several days the media may be announcing that John Mark Karr...

That was my first thought when I heard that they had a suspect in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey. Patsy Ramsey killed JonBenet, right? Or wa...

I'm a big fan of creative sentencing. It allows judges to be judges, and can provide for a meaningful punishment that may change the beh...

In the wake of Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro turning over his power to his 75 year-old younger brother Raul , I wondered what the criminal la...

We are just finding out that Pete Coors , President of Coors Beer , was arrested in May for suspicion of drunken driving. The story is here ...

YAHOO! News reports that a New York judge ordered the release of a man who served 22 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of rape,...