Category: Criminal Defense

In a recent blog post, we asked one of the most important questions in criminal law today: How reliable are eyewitnesses? Unfortunately, the answer is “not very.” However, the lack of reliability in an eyewitness only begins to tell the story. This is because, in addition to being inherently unable

In the span of less than a week, we’ve had two more instances of police officers unjustifiably pulling the trigger on someone. However, the recent events that have unfolded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Minneapolis, Minnesota have both had new wrinkles that have made them especially powerful. Now, instead of

Let’s say you get arrested for a crime. Police claim that you robbed a convenience store at gunpoint. There were three people in the store at the time, and they all claim to have seen you do it. You get brought into the police station and get put into a

In one of our recent blog posts, we went over how both the Fifth Amendment and the Sixth Amendment gave you a right to an attorney. While it might seem confusing that there are two different parts of the Constitution that do the same thing, the reality is that they

If you’ve ever watched a courtroom drama or TV show like Law and Order, then you’ve seen at least a dozen objections being made in a trial. Unfortunately, many of these shows paint courtroom objections in a negative light, with the attorney raising the objection trying to keep relevant evidence