Former Ny Judge Found Guilty Of Attempted Extortion And Bribery
“This is a sad outcome for someone who was a superb judge, superb lawyer and superb human being,” Jones said. … By January 2002, Spargo faced allegations of ethical violations — unrelated to his future bench removal and criminal case — from the state Commission on [...]
North Carolina Supreme Court Finds Ex-Felons Have Gun Rights; Texas Constitution Has Stronger Language, Could It Happen Here?
While I’m not a lawyer, from the descriptions by these two law professors it sounds like North Carolina’s constitutonal right to bear arms is actually less strong t…
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Lawyers In The Dock: Edny Judge Suppresses Communications Obtained
observations on notable court decisions, news, developments affecting NY Federal Criminal Practice. Behind the convictions of criminal defense lawyers Robert Simels and Arienne Irving yesterday on charges of witness tampering and obstruction of justice is a profound question: should there be different rules for the [...]
Report Details How Madoff’s Web Ensnared S.E.C.
… dubious activities,” said Jacob H. Zamansky, a white-collar criminal defense lawyer. … Mr. Madoff pleaded guilty in March to securities fraud and was sentenced in June to 150 years in federal prison, leaving in his wake thousands of ruined investors, a…
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Look What The Cat Drug In…a Federal Offense!
As this law is written, even the most zealous animal lover could be prosecuted for a federal crime should the family pet happen to drag home a migratory bird. ————————-. Bristol Myers is an Austin criminal defense lawyer and is Board …
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Patterico’s Pontifications » Dumbass Federal Judges Push Release
In my first criminal defense job, about twenty-five years ago, our office had to withdraw from two cases because the sheriff put one of our clients into the same cell with another of our clients who was a homosexual rapist. …
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Wash Park Prophet: The Case Of The Three Bad Criminal Lawyers
Three judges in an appellate panel agree that the two prosecutors in a federal criminal case grossly violated the rules of professional conduct that apply to prosecutors regarding trial conduct, and that the criminal defense lawyer in …
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Gov. Good N Plenty And The Gang Strike Force
… profession as a criminal defense lawyer over the past twenty-two years, be it judges, prosecutors or just plain citizens, that the government strike and task forces were the most disreputable, unprofessional, unlawful and at times, most criminal, organizations in this state. I cannot even tell you [...]
Liberals And The Cia
The Project seeks to identify the interrogators to serve as witnesses if and when their clients are tried in federal court or by military commissions. … as the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdul Rahman was able to get messages out of federal prison through his lawyer Lynn Stewart),…
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Wisconsin Law Journal – Article
Does a civil trial lawyer need a book about restitution? “Federal Criminal Restitution,” a new handbook by Catherine M. Goodwin, Jay E. Grenig, and Nathan A. Fishbach, turned out to be the most useful book to hit our office in a long time. Prosecutors and criminal defense lawyers will [...]