Pretrial Release Is Wrong. Terrorism Is Clearly A Danger To The Community. About a week ago, authorities responded to a report of children living in New Mexico in filthy conditions, starving, and exposed to physical dangers. What authorities found was even more disturbing: an “extremist Muslim” compound where children were being tortured, brainwashed and trained […]
Category Archives: Criminal Law
Don’t Mistake Police for Private Counsel As a lawyer, I see cases where people mistake police for their own, personal counselors. People call the police and expect police officers to solve their problems.Police officers aren’t counselors. They are enforcers of legislation, peace and order. The type of help that police provide is called arrest. Two […]
Manafort Rightfully Fears Unfair Trial Paul Manafort is asking a Federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, a D.C. suburb, for a fair and impartial jury, and hence a change of venue. Manafort and his lawyers believe that the political climate in Northern Virginia would be too politically biased for Manafort to receive a fair jury trial.”It […]
Clinton’s Lawyers Get To Meet Unicorns This may sound like a defense lawyer’s fantasy — government counsel trusts you to voluntarily hand over incriminating evidence against your client, while understanding that your ethical duty is to protect your client’s best interests — but it happened. To Hillary Clinton’s defense lawyers.It’s good to be the Clinton […]
Leftist Professor Defaced Family Home of NRA’s Chris Cox I watched as stone-faced Patricia W. Hill, a “Research Assistant Professor” from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was found guilty on May 21, 2018, of a misdemeanor crime for defacing the private home of NRA’s Chris Cox.Cox is the charismatic Executive Director of the Institute for Legislative […]
You Don’t Have An Expectation of Privacy In Your Relatives’ DNA The concept of a right to privacy is deeply rooted in our culture. It is the simple idea that individuals in American society have the right to keep their government from snooping around their stuff.There is no specific law defining privacy and its parameters. […]
In Rendering Guilty Verdict, Did The Cosby Jury Rely On Policy Or On The Facts And The Law? Bill Cosby was found guilty on all 3 counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in Philadelphia.I have to wonder how much the prosecutor’s closing arguments had to do with the jury’s […]
Clinton’s donors could still face an investigation over $84 million campaign finance scandal by Marina Medvin | April 20, 2018 A pro-Trump political action committee filed a complaint in December with the Federal Election Commission alleging that Hillary Clinton’s campaign laundered $84 million in contributions from big-name donors, such as Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, […]
There Is No Such Thing As ‘Newsworthy’ Exception To Attorney-Client Confidentiality Marina Medvin President Trump and his supporters made headway in accusing the Federal government of violating or endangering attorney-client privilege.They’re not wrong.The attorney-client privilege is recognized by our Supreme Court as one of the oldest recognized privileges for confidential communications. See Hunt v. Blackburn, […]
Why Clinton’s Donors May Be Investigated In $84 Million Money Laundering Scheme by Marina Medvin A pro-Trump political action committee has filed a complaint with the FEC alleging the Hillary Clinton campaign laundered $84 million in contributions from big-name donors, such as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, filmmaker Steven Spielberg, and designer Calvin Klein. The complaint […]