Criminal Defense

It's almost a daily exercise, watching video of law enforcement conduct that raises eyebrows. The responses are always the same: 1) The ...

As I write, Amanda Knox is on a British Airways plane to London on her way home to Seattle after an Italian appellate court overturned her m...

There are few experienced criminal defense lawyers who can't say they've "seen it all." But then this pops up: An order fr...

As practice areas go, the criminal defense bar is about as collegial as it gets. Yes, we, like any other type of "consumer" lawyer...

The story goes like this: Florida was a state that didn't have automatic restoration of civil rights after a criminal was released from ...

Until you've had it, it's the dream of every criminal defense lawyer - to get that case. The big one. The one everyone is talking a...

This will be it, nothing more to write. Four years for four misdemeanor counts of lying to police? The proper sentence, in this case (assumi...

The decision would be a foregone conclusion. Everyone knew Casey Anthony killed her daughter. They never once criticized the prosecutors. De...

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...