Category: Criminal Defense

In a refreshing sign of the times, the Justice Department’s Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates released a memo on how to better handle eyewitness identifications. These identifications are the basis for many arrests and eventual criminal convictions, and yet are fraught with inaccuracies and manipulations. By issuing the memo, Ms.

Especially in the recent weeks, we’ve been hearing a lot about hate crimes. However, exactly what constitutes a hate crime is not often obvious, is rarely explained, and can be difficult to understand. Unfortunately, every crime has the potential to be a hate crime, depending on who it was committed

New Year’s is one of the most exciting times in the year. This is especially true after such a rough year that we had in 2016. Many people throughout Maine will be eager to blow off some steam and bring 2017 in with a bang. However, police know that this

One of the problems of living in a country with an adversarial justice system, rather than an inquisitorial one, is that you can count on the prosecutor doing all that he or she can to convict you and pursue the maximum sentence. In this kind of judicial system that is,

Anyone who has watched a courtroom drama like Law and Order on TV has a basic understanding of how the justice system in the United States is structured: There’s the prosecutor or the plaintiff, on the one side, and on the other side is the defendant and criminal defense attorney.