Think about it—you pay for Obamacare (or your employer pays), you have high deductibles ($1,000-$2,000), you pay for a big portion of your 
dental care, and you even pay for co-pays ($25-$60) each time you have one of your kid’s ears checked for a winter infection. Would you agree to free health care for criminals?
Most of us …
The man accused of setting off a bomb at the Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has finally started trial in a federal courtroom in Boston. 
I’m sure you remember that he and his older brother, Tamerlin, (who died shortly after the blast and a police man-hunt) are both implicated in the detonating of a pressure cooker filled with deadly …
Over my many years of prosecuting and defending criminal, I’ve represented a few serial killers in my days. No matter how much everyone in the system tries to treat these cases as “just another crime” and not put undue attention on them, they are different. The killers are a different type of criminal.
I’m certainly not a psychiatrist, …
A few years ago, I represented a young man who was accused of killing his domestic partner—his wife when he came home and found her with another man. Not only was he accused, he was guilty!! The young man, Jerry, came into their apartment and jumped onto to wife who still lay on the living room couch. (Couldn’t …
The Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, stated recently that “We’re going to stop law enforcement from profiling once and for all!”
What is profiling? Is it really bad? Here are four thoughts from all the years I’ve worked as both a prosecutor and Public Defender.
Profiling means that citizens are stopped by law enforcement—not because …
When a lawyer represents an accused person, which choices are reserved for the lawyer and which ones for the client?
Of course, in any lawyer/client relationship the people involved will determine who makes the decisions. However, in criminal cases there are two main decisions that only the client can make—
1. The decision to plead guilty or to …
People constantly complain about the long delays in court proceedings—and it’s true. There are many reasons why this happens. But one of the biggest problems is there are too many cases and too few resources for people coming through the courts. What can we do?
In the largest, busiest counties there has been a break-through toward handling this …
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