Criminal Defense

This past weekend I ended my term as Immediate Past President of FACDL at its 25th Annual Meeting. That's it, no more officer positions....

Another one of those damn studies: From the press relase: TALLAHASSEE — Thanks to its gung-ho approach to lengthening jail time, Florida...

It will be my third time. The first time I got as far as being brought down to a criminal courtroom and after answering in the affirmative...

Any criminal defense lawyer in a city with an international airport has dealt with the guy who finds himself in the local lock up after pass...

It was a lone comment on one of the hundreds of stories announcing the arrest of George Zimmerman for the death of Trayvon Martin: "Now...

Got an email today. Subject line was "Trayvon Martin Media." In the past week, our phones have not stopped ringing with calls from...

So now here in Florida we have a dead black kid , killed by a neighborhood captain of crime watch white guy that has 911 on speed dial , and...

In Miami, we have a misdemeanor "jail division." It's for those charged with misdemeanors that haven't bonded out for what...

Why is it that only after a kid like T.J. Lane blows away 3 other kids, whose only crime was going to school that day, do we begin to look ...

I'm one of those that laughs at things on the internet that others don't find funny. I think people get a little too bent out of sha...

The email was one of many I, and other lawyers, receive: I am hosting a free teleseminar on August 10, 2011 entitled: "How to Double Yo...

I haven't spent much time talking about the TSA. Unlike my good American Mark Bennett , I still fly. I have plenty of other things that ...

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...