Same Crime, Different Sentence
One of the many interesting questions in the world of post-Booker federal sentencing is whether a judge, in sentencing one defendant, is required (or permitted) to take into account the sentences...
View ArticleWhy the Necessity Defense is Unneccesary
From a deterrence standpoint, I’ve never understood why there is such a thing as a necessity or duress defense in criminal law. The deterrence view of criminal law is that we choose punishments to...
View ArticleWhite Collar Criminal Sentences: How Long Is Too Much?
(Daniel Solove) An article in the New York Times discusses the debate over the increasingly long sentences for those convicted of white collar crimes: Bernard J. Ebbers, the former chairman of WorldCom...
View ArticleTax and Criminal Law
(Kristin Hickman) So here’s another interesting “tax and” topic: the criminalization of tax shelters (and, possibly, tax practice?). This is a thought I have only preliminarily considered, so I will...
View ArticleJailed Lawyer Says Judge Illegally Ordered Drug Test on His Urine
(Katheryn Hayes Tucker and Kathleen Baydala Joyner) A former Fulton County prosecutor who is fighting to limit the damage drug convictions will have on his legal career was jailed in Cobb County by a...
View ArticleFormer Lawmaker Faces Spouse-abuse Case; AG’s Office Says Wife’s Dementia...
By all accounts, Donna Lou Young and Henry Rayhons were happily married. But the former Iowa lawmaker is now awaiting trial in a felony spouse-abuse case. He is accused of having sex with his wife in a...
View ArticleJudge Says Lawyer’s Error Not Enough to Overturn Conviction
(Joel Stashenko) A defense lawyer’s decision not to call his forensics expert to the stand because the attorney misunderstood procedural rules of expert testimony did not deprive his client of...
View ArticleTwo Pharmacists are Accused of Second-degree murder in Meningitis Outbreak
(DEBRA CASSENS WEISS) A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday accuses two pharmacists of second-degree murder in a 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that killed at least 64 people and injured about 750...
View ArticleMurder trial delayed for lawyer accused of using forged power of attorney as...
A double-murder trial scheduled in February for a Missouri lawyer accused of killing her father and his girlfriend in 2010 has been postponed at the request of the prosecution. Attorney Susan Elizabeth...
View ArticleSpeedy Systems on Different Types of Criminal Attorneys Clarified
A criminal law attorney is ordered on the premise of the obligations embraced and areas of criminal law. The attorneys are delegated depending on extensions of these laws. The division of law in unison...
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