Posts in 2011

Dec 27 Clerk Magistrate Makes Right Call on NHL Analyst Mike Milbury

There is little doubt that the Clerk Magistrate Hearing last week which resulted in the declination of charges against former ...

Dec 19 Is Barry Bonds Really “Safe at Home?”

There’s been a good deal of criticism about the sentence imposed on former Giants Slugger Barry Bonds in a federal courtroom in ...

Dec 16 PA v. Jerry Sandusky: Why Waive a Preliminary Hearing?

Yesterday a reporter asked me about the decision by Jerry Sandusky’s attorney to waive his right to a preliminary hearing in which ...

Nov 09 1984 Is No Longer Fiction: Supreme Court Considers Warrantless GPS Tracking

It sure looks like the sitting justices on the United States Supreme Court are on the right track (pun fully intended) from the ...

Nov 04 Ineffective Assistance of Counsel During Plea Bargaining

A plea bargain is a critical step in anyone’s criminal defense. It is ineffective assistance of counsel when an attorney gives bad ...

Oct 27 No Sense Getting the Feds All Hot and Bothered Over Bieber Fever

As if there weren’t enough issues already with various attempts to criminalize the downloading of music, videos, and images, we ...