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- 1From:Wisconsin Law JournalByline: Ali Teske Milwaukee criminal defense attorney May Lee never planned to practice law. She began her professional career as a teacher in higher education and at 38 years old decided to change courses after...
- 2From:Reason (Vol. 53, Issue 6)THE U.S. SUPREME Court will hear oral arguments this fall in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which challenges the constitutionality of a state law requiring that anyone seeking a license to carry a...
- 3From:Maclean's (Vol. 134, Issue 2)I found the soon-to-be-retired tool of my trade in a dumpster nearly 15 years ago. Rescuing broken things is what good defence lawyers do. As a young criminal lawyer in 2006, I found my future litigation bag in a...
- 4From:Reason (Vol. 50, Issue 6)In the era of big-budget comic book movies, Ken White is a different kind of superhero. The former federal prosecutor-turned-defense attorney has used his legal acumen and social media presence to educate Americans...
- 5From:Spectator (Vol. 337, Issue 9901)Donald Trump got bad reviews in the press--no surprise--when he announced that Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and federal prosecutor, would join his legal team in the Trump-Russia special counsel...
- 6From:American History (Vol. 53, Issue 2)Howe and Hummel were criminal lawyers, in both senses: They were lawyers who defended criminals, and they were criminals who practiced law. The pair happily represented murderers, thieves, and prostitutes, but their...
- 7From:The New American (Vol. 34, Issue 6)"This kid exhibited every single known red flag, from cutting animals to having a cache of weapons to disruptive behavior to saying he wanted to be a school shooter. If this isn't a person who should have gotten...
- 8From:The New York Times MagazineThe Galaxy 19 is a communications satellite that orbits over North America, beaming free-to-air programming to hundreds of thousands of households. It also happens to be the way detainees at GuantAaAaAeA namo B get...
- 9From:Reason (Vol. 49, Issue 2)YOU HAVE THE right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided to you. So goes the the Miranda rights spiel heard on 1,000 cop shows. But in many parts of the U.S., it's not quite true....
- 10From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 264, Issue 10)I had another life before I became a fulltime writer. I was a criminal defense attorney for 10 years, working primarily in federal court. We handled all kind of cases, from white-collar crimes to murder and just about...
- 11From:The Christian Century (Vol. 133, Issue 14)If you were in serious legal trouble, you'd want to know my friend Diane Helphrey. Diane is a skilled lawyer with significant experience in taking on difficult criminal cases. In addition to legal acumen, she has a...
- 12From:The New American (Vol. 28, Issue 11)Sixty-year-old criminal defense attorney Sam Bardwell of Titusville, Florida, routinely slept in a makeshift office apartment; however, he was awakened by the sound of a motion-triggered fan in his residence on April...
- 13From:MEED Middle East Economic Digest (Vol. 50, Issue 44)The resumption of the trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussain after Eid is interrupted again. Defence lawyers walk out after the judge refused to grant 12 requests filed by chief defence lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi...
- 14From:The Economist (Vol. 384, Issue 8546)A superb new book shows how trumped-up charges exposed faults in some of America's grandest institutions ON THE night of March 13th 2006, 47 lacrosse players at Duke University, North Carolina, paid a couple of...
- 15From:Mental Health Law Report (Vol. 22, Issue 4)* (McLuckie v. Abbott, No. 02-1017, 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals): Even if a defense attorney's performance fell below constitutional minimums, the defendant has to clearly suffer prejudice for a court to find...
- 16From:Wisconsin Law JournalByline: Jack Zemlicka Criminal defense lawyer John Birdsall says he has substituted hundreds of judges without explanation. The attorney with Birdsall Law Offices SC, Milwaukee, doesnt have to justify his...
- 17From:Mental Health Law Report (Vol. 22, Issue 6)Maunz v. Perales No. 88,124 Supreme Court of Kansas A defense can argue that a person committing suicide shares part of the blame for his death, a state Supreme Court justice ruled. A jury's evaluation of...
- 18From:The AtlanticByline: Raymond Bonner Diana Holt, photographed by Joshua Drake In our criminal-justice system, once a person has been convicted, no matter how shaky the conviction, the presumption of innocence disappears. The...
- 19From:NewsweekByline: Karen Breslau In his first interview since client Scott Peterson was convicted of murder, defense lawyer Mark Geragos talked to NEWSWEEK's Karen Breslau. Some excerpts: You told the jury you'd show Scott...
- 20From:Maclean'sThe scene was finally set. Accused mass murderer Robert Pickton, 53, sat behind bulletproof glass in a Port Coquitlam, B.C., court as the relatives of many of the 15 women he is accused of killing took their seats. But...