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Bail Reform Gets Yet Another Boost

The nation’s bail bonds industry is a $2 billion-plus enterprise—an enterprise that in many respects borders on being criminal. The wealth of the industry…

Defending the Indefensible Client: Ethical Duty Versus Social, Professional Risk

Every criminal defense attorney has had a client whose crime repulsed the attorney. Every criminal suspect is entitled under both our state and federal…

Cruel and Unusual Justice: A Surging American Phenomenon

The criminal justice system in America is often blind to injustice and, more often than not, cruel and unusual. As of 2017, the Sentencing…

Rigged Police Lineups Lead to Wrongful Convictions

As of this writing, there have been 2,481 exonerations in the United States since 1989—nearly 400 of them through DNA exoneration. Roughly 35 percent…

Romance Fraud? Of Course That’s A Thing

In 2010, a documentary called Catfish gave a name to a disturbing new online trend. The documentary followed a young man in New York…

What Will the White House’s Crackdown on Fentanyl Look Like?

A synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin, Fentanyl is responsible for a large proportion of opiate overdose deaths occurring in every segment…

McSally Reignites Debate on Domestic Terrorism Law

Following the tragic mass shooting in El Paso, Texas in early August, there has been a political push to make domestic terrorism into a…

Texas Criminalizes Texting Unwanted Explicit Images

It has always been indecent, and criminal, for anyone in Texas to expose their anus or any part of their genitalia with the intent…

“THE PROMISE OF GIDEON REMAINS UNFULFILLED”

In a rare unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963 handed down the landmark decision known as Gideon v. Wainwright . The decision…

After El Paso and Dayton, Will Gun Crime Consequences Increase?

The mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton which left at least 31 people dead reflect the escalating gun violence in the United States.…

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