Criminal Defense

Matt Brown over at Chandler Criminal Defense laments the crappy, lazy, too busy to represent their clients, lawyers who have their own def...

Judge Roberto Pineiro died today. He was 56. He had a stroke. The death of a judge is a unique experience for a courtroom lawyer. Courthous...

"Get it up front." That's the advice from any experienced criminal defense lawyer. But cash flow is slow, you need the case, a...

Unless you live in my neighborhood, you probably don't know the name Tyler Weinman . Yesterday the Miami-Dade State Attorney dropped all...

Two recent calls to my office contained the same type of client - "this is how we're going to do things. The first had an employee ...

It's funny watching my fellow Americans bellyache, whine, and express shock over the TSA's new policy of "doing whatever the he...

There's just no such thing about a stupid comment among friends. When it happens, blogging about it the next day is as timely as eating ...

I'm watching the sunrise outside my hotel room window here in Jackson, Mississippi as I prepare to speak at a CLE conference sponsored b...

There is a notion deep within the criminal justice system that prosecutors, and those that assist them (police, investigators, witnesses) co...

Last night, Simple Justice author "Surviving" Scott Greenfield announced the 25,000th comment had been posted on his blog. Odd ...

So here I am, taking a few weeks (blasphemy!) off from blogging, and the race to the bottom of the internet just gets more and more ridiculo...

Leonard Pitts compares the Anthony Graves case to a a TV western: There's been a vicious killing. Everybody knows who did it -- or thi...

No, this isn't a post about the results - I want you to take this survey if you provide indigent defense services as a PD or private law...

In this "tough on crime" "Law & Order" world we live in, there is a notion that prosecutors and cops (except the one...

Many many years ago, like 5 years ago, the blogosphere was different. Lawyers came here to write, to express opinions on the issues of the d...

My post below on The Core of a Criminal Defense Lawyer was about recent thoughts I've been having about the genesis of my career and a ...

Something's been happening lately. Questions have been swirling around my head about my role as a criminal defense lawyer. I started as ...

Support for good judges comes from all kinds of places . Brian Tannebaum is a criminal defense lawyer in Miami, Florida practicing in state ...

Florida's state court trial judges are elected every 6 years. In most rural and smaller areas, there are no contested elections. You don...

"Things are slow" It's almost the required response these days to the question. As most criminal defense lawyers go, "bus...