Nicole Wittmann -- currently interim Loudoun County commonwealth's attorney -- is the Republican contender to replace outgoing chief prosecutor Jim Plowman, who will join the Circuit Court bench. As a Fairfax criminal lawyer, I know that this race in the adjacent county to me has...
On June 23, 2017, the Supreme Court expanded upon Padilla, by confirming that it is ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment for a criminal lawyer to misadvise his or her client that a particular conviction or sentence will not carry adverse immigration consequences. Jae...
example along with the constant execution machines of China, Iran and Saudi Arabia. In all likelihood, Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will help allow the nation's death penalty machine to proceed virtually full speed ahead.This week, the Supreme Court denied relief to a...
Does the GOP really think that the mentality and sensitivities of the voting population is so low that the GOP will on balance gain more Trump votes than it loses -- and gain more people sympathetic to the GOP than the party alienates -- over...
