Criminal Defense

Yesterday around the country thousands of criminal defendants went to court. Some were found guilty, a few acquitted, some pled guilty, and ...

Every so often criminal lawyers have the "joy" of interacting with a civil lawyer in the course of a criminal case. Now look, I do...

The second step for those non-indigent defendants post-arrest, is to one or 12 lawyer's offices. There is no question at this point that...

Never want to kick a man when he's down, but there is something hysterical about a politician calling a press conference to announce tha...

[1] Create a policy, like a real policy regarding immigrants and crime. Recently a friend was deported. He was convicted in federal court o...

There was a heightened buzz about the prison population when the stats came out that over 2 million people were in American prisons. Then I...

Over at the 2nd best criminal defense blog in the country , Simple Justice , Scott Greenfield brings us this story about yet another lawyer...

A standard description of judges is that he or she is "nice off the bench." When you say a judge is "nice off the bench,...

Except for a few like my buddy-ole-pal Ken Lammers who's celebrating his 7 year anniversary as a blogger, prosecutors are generally abs...

Tomorrow morning, about 8:30, the bailiff will unlock the courtroom. Enter the corrections officers, the cart-with-boxes weilding prosecutor...

I had the privilege to co-counsel a federal trial this week and now that the split verdict is in, just had some thoughts on what the first t...

The author of the below e-mail obviously didn't read my post a couple days ago about bullshit I don't do . This is not the first tim...

We've all heard of jury tampering, even bribery of judges. This though is a first for me - bailiff tampering , brought to us from Cincin...

Quid pro quo (From the Latin meaning "something for something") indicates a more-or-less equal exchange or substitution of goods ...

There is a formula for determining from the call about a new case, whether you will be hired. I give it to you here: Date of arrest (1) + nu...

UPDATE: Prosecutor Ken Lammers explains his view of the "Second Lawyer" from the other side of the courtroom. I believe the main ...

[1] We won’t be announcing layoffs in our real estate division. [2] We won’t be moving attorneys into other “profitable” departments. [3] ...

UPDATE: They apologized I noticed over the past couple days that someone was visiting my blog from the Jacksonville Politics Blog . Though...

In my ebook, The Truth About Hiring A Criminal Defense Lawyer , my number one tip to being a good criminal defense lawyer's client is to...

While we here in Florida, specifically Jacksonville, have our own comical display of leadership with a new State Attorney and Public Defend...