Criminal Defense

Several years ago I moderated a panel on ethics in criminal justice. A former senior prosecutor-turned judge said that he believed professio...

I don’t spend much time here talking about my cases. This isn’t a billboard for my practice. It’s a place for me to express thoughts, joke, ...

Brian Tannebaum is a criminal defense lawyer in Miami, Florida practicing in state and federal court, and the author of The Truth About Hiri...

Yesterday Congress decided black people shouldn't go to prison for a significantly longer period of time that white people for using di...

There's been a recent shift in the blogosphere. From a place where we find way too much robotic marketing and self-promotion dressed as ...

I never understood it. A criminal lawyer is prone to try more cases than a civil lawyer. It's what draws us to the profession. Yet I hea...

Perusing the paper this morning, I see political endorsements are in full swing at three a day. Two of the three races mentioned today inclu...

Jackie Carpenter, African American criminal defense lawyer in Houston, Texas, for a fleeting moment, is a suspect in an armed robbery case. ...

July 11, 1960, To Kill A Mockingbird was published. Look above, and it's obvious the story has great meaning to me. The Washington Post...

I don't know where or when it started. I'm sure it started its demise before I was around, hell, Atticus Finch was never the darling...

Somewhere in the archives of this blog are a few posts about the media. As a criminal defense lawyer, I read stories differently than Mom an...

You know Stephen Bright? He's head of the Southern Center for Human Rights , and a few other things . He was invited to speak this year ...

We have 85,000 lawyers in the Florida Bar. Someone once did some research and found that 4,500 of those lawyers had filed notices of appeara...

Cops hate criminal defense lawyers and criminal defense lawyers hate cops. That's not a true statement, but it is what most people think...

I assume all private criminal lawyers go through the same thing; a string of great calls and clients, followed by a string of mind numbing a...

Bud Selig did the right thing. Sometimes life sucks and you get screwed. You don't go back and change things. It's too easy to compa...

After my last post on the juvenile system, railing against children being able to determine sentences for other children, and incidences th...

Today I will walk into Juvenile Court and accept diversion for a client who was involved in a misdemeanor battery. She will do her 15 hours ...

IN 1994, Alan Dershowitz coined the phrase "Testilying." The practice of giving false testimony against a defendant in a criminal...

Few have noticed the lines blurred between child and adult in the criminal justice system. With an increase in "youth" violence ov...