We started yet another trial this week, and it’s looking like it will continue into the first week of April. Not our longest trial ever, but fairly lengthy for a state case. But at least it’ll be over before the trial of Raj Rajaratnam, which also began this week, and...
Extortion is a kind of threat. A threat that’s so bad, it’s criminal. For a threat to be criminal extortion, it needs to be of a kind to make someone do something against his will, that’s adverse to his own interests. Threatening to kill a child if the parents...
The Supreme Court ruled today that defense attorneys assigned by the state are not government actors, merely because the government assigns and pays them. They are attorneys for the defendant, and their actions are actions of the defense, not the government. This seems like a no-brainer. Every defense attorney knows...
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