“If you’re charged with a crime and have enough money, you can hire a good lawyer, who’ll get you off.” True or False?
Answer: It depends! (Okay, I’ve been a lawyer for 30+ years) Here’s the best lawyer money can buy.
The idea that money can get you the best defense lawyer to get you out of trouble …
I’m anxious to share the cover of my new book, Up Like Thunder. The photo was taken by a good friend of mine in Myanmar during our trip there in the fall of 2013. It’s the Shwedagon Pagoda, the largest and most loved pagoda in the country. It’s located in Yangon (Rangoon) on the highest point in …
My client was guilty! No question about it. Seventeen year old, Jim, found his wife in bed with another man. Jim went beserk and kicked the other man out but did worse to his wife–he strangled her around the throat with his hands. Then, trying to avoid detection, he spray-painted her body in gang grafitti, and dumped her …
It’s the question I get all the time: How can you defend someone you know is guilty? Especiall if it’s a horrible crime. It’s easy to reply “it’s my job,” “everyone has a right to a trial,” “I have an ethical duty…blah, blah, blah.” All true but there’s the human part of every lawyer that is repulsed by …
As a criminal defense lawyer, I get asked one question more than any other: How can you defend a guilty person?
If you know the client did the crime, how can you represent a guilty person? There are three answers to that:
1. Very few clients ever fully admit they’re guilty! Most lie and deny everything. Even though …
Not Guilty by reason of a mental illness defense. All state in the U.S. have a statutory provision that allow a jury to find an accused person not guilty because of a mental illness insanity defense—even if the accused did the crime.
When a guilty person “gets off” like this it makes many of us upset or even …
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