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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Senator Grassley Slams DOJ's Medical Grass Policy
It's typical in this country to say we're fighting 2 wars - Iraq and Afghanistan. We're actually fighting dozens of "wars." Today I heard someone speaking so passionately about the increase in violence against women…
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When Our System Confronts Pure Tragedy
Yesterday in Miami, Ronald Salazar was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for rape and first degree murder. The story is here.I assume somewhere else in the world yesterday, some defendant or two, or more,…
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Letterman Extortionist Lawyer Bombs on Today Show, says People Magazine
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyWhy would a lawyer turn down an invitation to go on the Today Show?Just think, you go on the Today Show, get to meet…
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Roman Polanski, Criminal
Roman Polanski is a beloved film director who survived the Holocaust and suffered further horror as his wife was murdered by arguably the worst criminal "family" in the history of the world, the Mansons.In 1977…