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Sticking a thumb in the eye of open and transparent government, democracy, and First Amendment protection, a majority of the Portsmouth, Virginia, city council took it upon itself, in haste all the worse, to add the following abomination to the city council rules of order...

Interview of Jon Katz about the murder rate in the United States.

My interview starts at minute 4:00. On June 4, Voice of America television included me on a half-hour live French-speaking panel interview about the FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) scandal (see the lengthy official criminal charges). The program was broadcast to countries including French-speaking...

Successful trial work requires throwing one’s entire self into smart, intuitive, and inspired case review and preparation; work with one’s client and all witnesses; and sweat.. By the time the lawyer appears in the courtroom stage, s/he should be so well prepared and ready to win...

This year, the Voice of America and a freelance journalist with a major magazine interviewed me about the Boston marathon bombing trial against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, humanizing criminal defendants to jurors, and Tsarnaev’s lawyer and my hero Judy Clarke. The Voice of America interview was videotaped...

Two weeks ago, I returned for my somewhat annual speaking engagement with George Washington University’s graduate Human Sexuality class. The class primarily is composed of students who want to be psychological counselors. Why are humans the only animals who need psychological counselors, self help books,...

Recently, Kimberly Atkins at LegalNews.com interviewed me on the Prado Navarette v. California Supreme Court decision eroding the Fourth Amendment by giving too much credence to 911 callers. The reporter contacted me after reading my blog entry on the case.  Here is the article that followed the interview, including a couple...

Fox News interviewed me for the third time in less than three months. on August 24 on Justice With Jeanine, about having non-English speakers on criminal juries. I came ready with many ideas, but, as is common for short interviews, the questions to me only...

Challenging Obama’s spying-gate. (Fox News, June 8, 2013). Fox News is a right wing darling. My own agenda when accepting or declining a media interview invitation is whether the interview will further my own agenda of spreading the gospel of justice. With that goal in...

By Jon Katz, a criminal defense lawyer and DWI/ DUI/ Drunk Driving lawyer advocating in Fairfax County, Virginia, and beyond for the best possible results for his clients. Earlier this week, Briton Sean Jude Kelly’s allegedly drunken and “let’s fight” behavior on a plane returning...