A recently released $40 million dollar Senate Intelligence report revealed that in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Central Intelligence Agency tortured terror suspects through “enhanced interrogation techniques.” In response to the report, CIA Director John Brennan apologized…
Month: December 2014
2014
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Entrapment and the widespread use of unreliable snitches are realities that every zealous criminal defense attorney must be on the lookout, lest corrupted, or even worse, fabricated evidence make its way before the jury. Paid snitches are inherently unreliable and…
2014
In a 1966 decision, Schmerber v. California, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision extending a limited exception to the Fourth Amendment “warrant requirement” to certain alcohol-related cases. Specifically, the court held that when an arresting officer faces an…
2014
This site has blogged numerous times about police misconduct in criminal investigations, militarized police departments using heavy-handed tactics to disrupt lawful civil disobedience, police corruption involving “cops on the take” in drug trafficking cases, and police tactical teams killing or…
2014
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Defense lawyers know all too well the gut wrenching fear of representing a client they believe is innocent.
We fight zealously for all of our clients and see acquittals in many cases where the state could not prove their…
2014
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Tom Price cites the unreasonably high risk of executing an innocent person as one of several compelling reasons that the death penalty should be abolished.
By all reasoned accounts, Scott Panetti is mentally…