I recently got back from a trip to our nation's capital with the family. It was a lot of fun showing my kids the various monuments, the...

After more than a decade of working as a public defender and receiving a salary that was completely independent of the nature or number...

A few weeks ago, I had a sentencing for a client that I first met about 5 years ago. I eventually had to withdraw from his case due to a...

There are certain lies that law enforcement officers tell because they are trained to. Among people in the defense community, we joke...

As an attorney, one of the most important aspects of the job is maintaining confidentiality with clients. This means that any information...

In the very first season of FX's excellent comedy series "The League," there is a scene where one of the characters who is a defense...

Throughout my career, I have gotten a number of questions time and time again that used to feel like they are meant as attacks: "How can...

Unless you have had the benefit/misfortune/privilege to be involved with the criminal system, your impressions of how that system works...

I just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell's book, "David and Goliath." The whole book is about how the mythos of the story of David's...

Let me start off by thanking my brother for reminding me of what it felt like to first learn about Double Jeopardy in law school. I had...

I had a client ask me if he would be able to force the alleged victim to pay his attorney's fees after he got acquitted at trial. The...

Here in Arizona, a felony DUI is called an aggravated DUI. As the name implies an aggravated DUI is a regular DUI plus some...