The defense started its case and on Monday (10/24/11), and immediately ran into a blizzard of criticism and second-guessing by the self-proclaimed legal cognoscenti debating strategy on HLN and TruTv....

Early last Wednesday morning (10/12/11), Conrad Murray's lawyer, J. Michael Flanagan, shocked the courtroom by announcing:"We are not going to assert at any point in time in this trial that...

Dr. Murray's attorneys made a bold move in their opening argument by promising the jury they would prove that Michael Jackson self-administered lethal doses of Propofol and Lorazepam. The linchpin...

Labels can be misleading. When Juliet says the Montague name isn’t important to her, she means what matters is what something is, not what it is called. In more modern...

The three men, known collectively as the West Memphis 3, were convicted of killing three 8-year-old cub scouts. These were not ordinary killings, but were labeled satanic because the naked...

The best documentaries are great stories and teach us how to tell a story with words and pictures. Storytelling is the best way to communicate with an audience and ensures...

In an earlier article, I expressed disbelief that Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted the hotel maid by twice pushing his penis into her mouth. Not once but twice! Obviously that is...

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...

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...

While glancing through a pile of newspapers, I came across a review of "Crime: Stories" by Ferdinand von Schirach. He is a German criminal defense lawyer writing about a few...