Criminal Defense

If he hasn't already, my good friend David O. Markus will certainly blog the result in the Ben Kuehne case handed down today in the 11t...

It's typical in this country to say we're fighting 2 wars - Iraq and Afghanistan. We're actually fighting dozens of "wars....

Yesterday in Miami, Ronald Salazar was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for rape and first degree murder. The story is here . I a...

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy Why would a lawyer turn down an invitation to go on the Today Sh...

Roman Polanski is a beloved film director who survived the Holocaust and suffered further horror as his wife was murdered by arguably the wo...

To the "ho-hum" of the nation, the national media reported back in May, and last week, that in November the United States Supreme ...

After a week away, I returned and did something I probably won't do again. I read every day of the newspaper that was published while I ...

This morning, while waiting for my case to be called, I popped into another courtroom after hearing a police officer in the hallway say ...

Laches (f. French, lachesse, laches ) [1] is an equitable defense, or doctrine. The person invoking laches is asserting that an opposing par...

I'm one of those sitting back watching the health care reform debate and shaking my head. So many lies, so many idiots. Not a single int...

It's a new world folks. No longer does a criminal defense lawyer, or any lawyer, have to actually be "good." All they have to ...

For those that haven't heard, there's a bunch of sex offenders living under a bridge in Miami. Not a bridge in the middle of the Eve...

This past Monday at the ABA annual meeting, Attorney General Eric Holder spoke of things that anyone practicing in the criminal justice syst...

There is a common thread that runs through any discussion of lying cops. First we start with the premise that cops lie. Then someone says ...

Watch Hollywood, Florida cops lying about a report they're writing. Courtesy of their dash cam. Brian Tannebaum is a criminal defense ...

When I wrote the below post a couple days ago, I had no idea that my federal sentencing yesterday would be the subject of an article in my l...

Well there was a big defense win in ultra-conservative Pensacola, Florida Friday. A young defendant was charged with vehicular homicide in ...

That was the Sheriff of Escambia County, Florida yesterday during an interview on cable TV regarding this horrific murder of the parents of...

I often joke that there are criminal defense lawyers and "former prosecutors" (practicing criminal defense). Some laugh. The ones ...

As soon as I saw the headline for this story this morning: "Up To 10,000 Illinois Prisoners May Be Released" I dead-bang predicted...