Criminal Defense

The main lesson from the Casey Anthony case is how little the public knows about the criminal justice system. Who's to blame? Lawyers. W...

So, how's the courthouse coffee shop these days? Remember when you all used to sit around and talk about this judge, and that prosecutor...

I took the last week to breathe. For the first time since 1999, I am no longer in a leadership position in the criminal defense bar. (Immedi...

After my last post, where I criticized the lawyer frenzy of commentary on the Casey Anthony case, I was immediately asked if I was going to ...

This morning I began to write a post on the Casey Anthony trial. I started writing about my disgust over the media coverage. I stopped becau...

It's an odd world in which we live that people we've never met, never spoken to on the phone, become our "friends." We rea...

Any criminal defense lawyer knows that the typical defense presented in a pot case is "wasn't mine." That it wasn't mariju...

Plead Guilty. Yeah, no long analysis or "wait till the end of the post" type stuff. He's broken, his life a tragic tale of lie...

Andrew Cohen provides a great analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent prison overcrowding case of Brown v. Plata , a case that may ...

One thing I've noticed about judges, elected prosecutors and public defenders, and everyone else in the court system, including civil la...

When I began my career, I didn't remember much hearing about the "smell" of marijuana . I heard a lot about young black men ch...

The website "skateboard city forum," (which I won't link to because some of you will leave there dumber than you are now), con...

The more I hear about the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the more I feel like I'm listening to a press conference by the local chief on the...

Sixty comments. 60. I've never had 60 comments to a post. Yes, I'm talking about the last post, the one inspired by John Wait. I thr...

When the story of the inexperienced Joseph Rakofsky and his representation in a murder case hit the internet, the divide between real lawye...

Two days ago death row exoneree John Thompson's chilling summary of his life as a "guilty" man appeared in the New York Times...

The broader question is whether federal trial courts will be required, for roughly the next five years, to perpetuate a congressionally reco...

It finally happened. The lying that has become marketing was brought to light in the story of an "experienced" criminal defense l...

"The proposal is designed to help prevent wrongful convictions, but is opposed by the law enforcement lobby.” That's a real quote. ...

There's a proposal in the Florida Legislature to lower judicial pay by 8%. Combined with pension reductions, judges are looking at about...