Criminal Defense


Criminal Defense addresses "current issues in state and local criminal defense, including commentary on cases of national interest."

Author: Author Brian Tannebaum is a criminal defense attorney in Miami with the firm of Tannebaum Weiss.

Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • States • Florida • Private Defense

Recent Posts from Criminal Defense


  • Terrorist Aiding Criminal Defense Lawyers, Michelle Malkin Is Looking For You

    This week, a federal appeals court ordered attorney Lynne Stewart to prison and asked the trial judge to review her sentence. It may have been too low based on his lack of consideration of whether…

  • Will Scott Rothstein Get A Voluntary Surrender?

    The public takes for granted when they hear that someone "surrendered to authorities."Surrendering to authorities means that either there is a mature, experienced agent or police officer on the case, or that heavy negotiations took…

  • David Letterman Wasn't Extorted

    As a defense lawyer, the job is to defend. Defending means determining the appropriate defense to the charge. There are simple defenses: didn't do it, that guy did it, insanity, statute of limitations has run,…

  • Why Life Without Parole For Juveniles Makes Sense

    No, it doesn't make sense to me. But it makes sense that they remain in effect based on the fabric of our society, based on "what the public wants," says the government.Yesterday, as every lawyer…

  • VIDEO: Judge Calls Cop Stealing From Defense Lawyer's File "Leeway"

    Required watching for every defense lawyer, prosecutor, judge, bailiff, defendant, voter, garbage man, teacher, citizen of the world, is this video where an in-court deputy is seen stealing a document from the file of a…

  • Scott Rothstein: Who Knew?

    Keeping up with the latest news on the unraveling of Scott Rothstein is like watching the stock market ticker.Here's what we know this morning:Rothstein had $16 million transferred to Morocco. A country he spent the…

  • A Lawyer's Meteoric Collapse Sends No Shockwaves

    I never met Scott Rothstein. He ducked out a few minutes before our lunch a few years ago. His secretary telling me and his colleague, who set up the lunch: "he went to lunch." There…

  • Why Do Conservatives Apologize For The Government?

    I don't know Randall G. Shelden, other than learning he is a criminologist at UNLV, but in searching for a definition of the Conservative philosophy of criminal justice I ran across his thoughts:The conservative view…

  • Trick or Treat: Scary Criminal Justice Statistics

    From on of the various fact sheets on the website of Families Against Mandatory Minimums:Race and mandatory sentencesPrison populations •One in 20 African American men over the age of 18 is in state or federal…

  • Criminal Defense Brethren: The 11th Circuit Says "No" On The Ben Kuehne Case

    If he hasn't already, my good friend David O. Markus will certainly blog the result in the Ben Kuehne case handed down today in the 11th Circuit. An opinion from a case of first impression…