I am not obsessively into the Casey Anthony trial as many people are; I have my own cases to work on, but interesting evidentiary issues keep popping up. This happens...
Hubbart: The Reaction
I have received a huge outpouring of support for Phil: blog comments, Facebook posts, emails, and phone calls from former and present assistant PDs, former law clerks, and a lot...
Phillip A. Hubbart
I became a criminal lawyer on the corner of Bird Road and Dixie Highway on November 3, 1970. I had just passed the bar exam and was driving downtown to...
The 403 Balancing Test
This weekend I wrote a piece on the Casey Anthony prosecutors using an animated video which opened with Caylee as a beatific child and then slowly morphed her face into...
The Casey Anthony Video Debacle
There was a photograph entered into evidence in the Casey Anthony trial on Friday, June 10, 2011. The photo shows Caylee Anthony and her mother Casey. An expert witness used...
Warped Justice
I bet you thought only criminal suspects got immunity deals. Not even close. Prosecutors have better immunity than anyone else. And the Attorney General, our chief law enforcement official, gets...
Building a Team
Litigation is a team sport. In sports we know one star player is not enough to win. Even the great Lebron James can't win without a team supporting him. Lebron...
DSK the Octopus
In the blue corner, we have a 62-year-old economist, head of the IMF, putative president of France. I can’t tell his height and weight from the photos and TV, but...
Bail
“How glorious to be an American citizen. In so many countries, the rights of citizens are not worth the paper they are printed on. But here, any citizen—good, bad, indifferent,...
Disturbing the Peace
My heroes have always been cowboys, just not the old western type, but the mavericks, the risk takers, the crusaders, the impracticable, the crazy ones, and the seriously politically incorrect....