Month: July 2013

While surveillance, eavesdropping and spying have become prominent features in the American lexicon over the past several months, they have long been insidious instruments of the criminal justice system. As criminal defense lawyers, we are all to aware the growing…

As criminal defense attorneys we are completely aware of the flaws in the criminal justice system that lead to wrongful convictions and executions.  However, it is the outrageous cost of running the state death machines that is causing serious reconsideration…

We always advise individuals who a potential targets or suspects in criminal investigations to clearly assert their right to remain silent and their right to have a lawyer present during questioning.  These are personal rights that must be clearly asserted…

Not Guilty Verdict Fans Discontent Over Disparity in Justice System
 
Our adversarial system of justice sometimes works. The George Zimmerman demonstrates as much. Prosecutors for the State of Florida and criminal defense attorneys for Zimmerman had a judicial forum,…

More than 90 percent of criminal defendants plead guilty rather than go to trial.
 
 
While some of these defendants are innocent and choose to plead guilty rather than face a more severe sentence following a jury guilty verdict,…

How does the State repay innocence lost? And do the wrongfully convicted forgive the State?
Michael Cosme, Devon Ayers and Carlos Perez were freed from prison in the night hours of January 23, 2013. Eighteen years ago they had been…