Criminal Defense
Humanizing Criminal Defendants
A criminal defense lawyer’s criminal defense lawyer, showing lawyers the powerful path to humanizing our clients, through storytelling, kindness to all, summoning our inner magic, and a reminder that “reality is no obstacle.” When I started practicing criminal defense over fifteen years ago, a repeated theme...
“The annals of criminal law are rife with instances of mistaken identification”
At a bench trial several years ago, a judge emphatically confirmed how much reliance he puts on witnesses who emphatically and — seemingly credibly — state “that’s the one” who committed the crime. Such an assertion flies in the face of the Supreme Court’s logical...
More on Child Pornography Defense
This follows up on my November 27 blog entry on child pornography defense, with more ideas about defending such cases: On November 30, I updated my original November 27 blog entry with further information about 18 USCS § 3509(m), which became law the middle of...
Defending Child Pornography Cases
Child pornography prosecutions have been rampant for many years, both for possession and distribution of child pornography, and for alleged violations of 18 U.S.C. § 2257 record keeping provisions. The United States Supreme Court generally limits child pornography prosecutions to images of actual minors, rather...