Tagged: defense attorneys

Playing Games with Client’s Lives

  Criminal law is about as serious as it gets.  Our clients’ liberty, reputations, freedoms, rights, opportunities, property — and even their lives — are at risk.  What we do affects not just our clients, but their children, their parents, the victims, and the community at large.  What we do...

Steering the Broken Machine

The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates By John Temple 2009 University Press of Mississippi, 234 pages, $25.95 Amazon.com :: Barnes & Noble The world is loaded with books about criminal lawyers. They fill the shelves in the mystery and thriller aisles, dominate true crime and related...

7 Criminal Defense Lawyers to Avoid

If you are charged with a crime, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Unlike civil lawsuits, which are merely about money, criminal prosecutions are the real deal. You can lose your liberty, rights, reputation, and opportunities down the road. You can lose your life, or a substantial part of it. So...

The Prosecutor’s B.S. Meter

I love reading Scott Greenfield’s blog Simple Justice. He posted a good one the other day called “Another Prosecutor Loses Her Virginity,” about a former prosecutor, Rochelle Berliner, now a defense attorney, who just came to the realization that cops sometimes lie. Her epiphany was published in Saturday’s New York...