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Italian Justice, Double Jeopardy and Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox was convicted in a second trial. I don’t practice Italian criminal defense law, and only took one class in law school about Italian justice. I am, therefore, woefully under prepared to talk...
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Michael Dunn: Guilty of Attempted Second Degree Murder
Michael Dunn, 45, was found guilty by a Duval County (Jacksonville, Florida) jury of three counts of attempted second degree murder of three teenage boys and one count of shooting into an occupied car....
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Man Pepper Sprays Economics Professor
George Mason University professor Tyler Cowen was pepper sprayed yesterday by a man who barged into his class, jumped on a table and said he was making a “citizen’s arrest.” The man then pepper sprayed...
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Overland Park Shooter has ties to North Carolina
The alleged shooter in Sunday’s killing of three people at an Overland Park, Kansas Jewish Community Center has ties to North Carolina. Glenn Miller (also known as Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.) was...
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A Plea for Fair Compensation
When I left law school, I considered taking a job as a public defender. I had spent roughly 18 months interning at the Wake County Public Defender’s office, first in the misdemeanor section, and then...
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Please Pay Your Public Servants
By my count, the Wake County District Attorney's office has 43 Assistant District Attorneys who handle the prosecutions for a nearly million person county in one of the most prosperous regions in the...
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Convicted Felon Dinesh D’Souza May Face Prison Time
Convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza pled guilty to count one – making or causing to be made contributions of more than $10,000 in contravention of 2 USC Secs. 441f and 437g(d)(1)(D) and 18 USC Sec. 2 in an...
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Ray Nagin’s “relatively short” sentence
What do you say about Mayor Ray Nagin, who was convicted by a jury earlier this year of 20 counts of corruption and filing false tax returns. I’m certainly not of the opinion that the “relatively...
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How Not To Message: Communications 101
Neil Siegel, a former special counsel to Joe Biden and supporter of ObamaCare/Affordable Care Act, was on WUNC’s The State of Things on Wednesday discussing recent appellate litigation involving the...
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Tom Horne’s Laughable Martindale Hubbell Rating
Click to Enlarge – Mark Brnovich I’ve been watching Arizona’s Attorney General race with some interest. Mark Brnovich, a lifelong Republican, former director of the Barry Goldwater Institute Center for...
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Attorney Access to ACIS
North Carolina’s outdated computer system – the Automated Criminal Infractions System – looks like something out of War Games, that early 1980s thriller where Matthew Broderick hacks into a government...
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Tragedy, the Police, and the Law
The murder of two NYPD officers is, it goes without saying, a tragedy, and a crime. It is every other bad adjective one wants to ascribe it. No one, whatever position they may hold, deserves to die at...
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SEANC’s Dana Cope Under Fire
UPDATE: Wake County DA Lorrin Freeman has requested that the SBI conduct a criminal inquiry into the matter. UPDATE 2: Dana Cope resigned two days later. SEANC’s Dana Cope Under Fire SEANC Executive...
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