*Indicates Required Fields
Category: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
Every criminal defense attorney has had a client whose crime repulsed the attorney.
Every criminal suspect is entitled under both our state and federal constitutions to have the assistance of counsel and to have an attorney appointed to them…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
The criminal justice system in America is often blind to injustice and, more often than not, cruel and unusual.
As of 2017, the Sentencing Project reported that there were nearly 162,000 people in the U.S. prison system serving life…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law
As of this writing, there have been 2,481 exonerations in the United States since 1989—nearly 400 of them through DNA exoneration. Roughly 35 percent of the total exonerations and 69 percent of the DNA exonerations involved misidentification issues.
Many…
Category: Catfishing | Fraud | Romance Fraud
In 2010, a documentary called Catfish gave a name to a disturbing new online trend. The documentary followed a young man in New York as he built a romantic relationship online with a woman…who didn’t exist.
The man was…
Category: Drug Distribution | Drug Trafficking | Fentanyl
A synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin, Fentanyl is responsible for a large proportion of opiate overdose deaths occurring in every segment of society and every region in the country. It has even been found mixed into other…
Category: Domestic Terrorism
Following the tragic mass shooting in El Paso, Texas in early August, there has been a political push to make domestic terrorism into a federal crime.
As it now stands, a federal statute defining domestic terrorism exists, but federal…
Category: Internet Sex Crimes | Sexual Harrassment
It has always been indecent, and criminal, for anyone in Texas to expose their anus or any part of their genitalia with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person. An underlying component of the…
In a rare unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963 handed down the landmark decision known as Gideon v. Wainwright. The decision held that the state must provide indigent criminal defendants appointed counsel if they cannot afford to retain…
Category: Guns | Violent Crime | Weapon Crimes
The mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton which left at least 31 people dead reflect the escalating gun violence in the United States.
Although not related, the attacks appear to be racially motivated.
In the wake of…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Hate Crime
Congress passed the Michael Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (18 U.S.C. § 249) in 2009. The FBI reports there were 7100 hate crimes in the U.S. in 2017, and the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates…
Take the first step toward protecting your freedom by contacting us now:
