Category: Criminal Defense

Samuel Leibowitz

April 7, 2013 Books
Samuel Leibowitz August 14, 1893 – January 11, 1978 While reading an article in Thursday’s New York Times (4/4/13),I flashed back forty years deep into my public defender days. Alabama...

Authenticity

October 8, 2012 Authenticity
My last post on the presidential debate focused on the disastrous, lackluster, non-performance by Obama, but now I want to dissect the performance of Mitt Romney who has been declared...

Bending the Rules

August 12, 2012 Competency
“Hard cases make bad law” is a tired lifeless legal cliche but it works to describe the Jared Loughner case. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. noted in Northern Securities Co. v....