Criminal Defense

Cops lie. Now before the comment section fills up, let's be honest: (no pun intended) cops lie. Lawyers lie. Witnesses lie. We all know....

The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers ( NACDL ) announced the "first-ever national report on misdemeanor courts," a...

When I graduated law school knowing I wanted to be a criminal defense lawyer, the one piece of advice I received over and over again was: do...

If you are a criminal defense lawyer, prosecutor, lawyer practicing in any area, law student, citizen of the world, you must, must print out...

I consider myself someone pretty up on the news, and so it came as a shock to me when I was driving on Florida's Alligator Alley (I-75 c...

Been gone for 10 days. Anyone notice? Actually got some work done. Stepping away from daily blogging gives me a great deal of respect for pe...

Although we hear time after time that a jury verdict of "guilty" means the defendant "did it," we know otherwise. Too ma...

Practicing criminal law in Miami, like any other big city, numbs lawyers. I realized this last week when I took a drive 2 ½ hours north to F...

Tuesday (March 3) marks the beginning of the 2009 legislative session. On Floridians minds? Jobs Tourism Health Care Homeowner's Insuran...

As I was perusing the blawgosophere this afternoon, I ran across this typical story from my friend and stellar Houston lawyer Paul B. Kenne...

This is for my colleagues, who will remember their own day like this, for the law students dreaming of being a criminal defense lawyer becau...

After reading the Texas Tornado Mark Bennett's Blawg Review #199, I cannot even muster up a post today. Just read it . Brian Tannebaum ...

Over at the second best law blog in the country, Simple Justice , Scott Greenfield muses about the laid off BigLaw's coming over to slum...

February 11, 2009 Blake Nordstrom President Nordstrom 1700 Seventh Avenue, Suite 300 Seattle, WA 98101 Dear Blake: If you have some intranet...

The most important rule of practicing criminal law, a rule never taught in Criminal Procedure in law school, is to be nice to court staff. C...

State Legislatures are a curious bunch. States have education problems, health care problems, environment problems, budget problems, and yet...

After 15 years of practice, I'm not one of those lawyers who constantly bitch about the "unfairness of it all" (I just write a...

I knew it. The minute I saw this picture: I said, "when's the arrest?" Now, I'm not advocating the arrest of Michael Phelp...

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...