A Wisconsin man lost his criminal appeal all the way through that state’s Supreme Court recently, with the court holding that a person’s self-incriminating statements are not unlawfully coerced by police “if the pressures exerted … do not exceed the defendant’s ability to resist.” The court ruled that the defendant was “not particularly vulnerable” and […]

A recent news article about a criminal charge, namely shoplifting, likely has readers evidencing mixed reactions. In a nutshell, a Connecticut woman who was arrested and charged with theft of a pack of cigarettes back in 1991, when she was 18, spent several days recently in a Florida jail on an arrest warrant because she […]

Americans’ constitutional right to exercise free speech and to debate controversial policies and decisions is most narrowly circumscribed, and a university is experiencing first-hand and at a very personal level the repercussions that can come from overt and excessive police attempts to stifle that right. As noted in a recent media account, a stand-off situation […]

Given that experienced criminal defense attorneys are daily immersed in the criminal justice system, they are amply familiar with everything about it, from what is right and works to what is wrong and should never be condoned. An example of the latter is police and prosecutorial abuse, with a sterling example of the former being […]