It took less than a day of trial and the jury less than 10 minutes to acquit my client. I was disappointed because I told the jury they shouldn’t be out more than a few minutes before acquitting. This was a case where because of the “policy” of the State’s Attorney’s...
Tough Times Call For Tough Representation
Criminal Defense
Prescription Pills and Teenagers
There may be nothing harder than getting through to a teenager who is addicted to pills. Oxycodone is synthetic heroin. It does not matter how affluent your family is, heroin is heroin, and it is the ultimate monkey on the back of any person. Couple that with raw...
Motion to Suppress
Had an interesting Motion to Suppress yesterday that was granted. The issue involved the seizure of pills from the console of my client’s vehicle. We dealt with those drugs before we dealt with the arrest for possession of marihuana. That too was suppressed, but...
You are too late if you are reading this
If you are reading this you have been charged with an offense and looking for an attorney. Here is a variable neither you nor I have control over. These cases were not triable. A good search in the first caseand the second client was caught at the scene with the...
Update to DRE
The Judge never got to rule on the DRE because I got the charge dismissed on technical grounds. I wonder how happy he was to learn about that? The arresting officer was shocked. My client was happy.
SEARCH AND SEIZURE UPDATE ARIZONA V. GANT ( http://supct. law. cornell. edu /supct /html /07-542.ZS.html )
I was asked in 2004 by a judge to participate in his trial advocacy course at a local law school. I suggested that he use the Thornton v. United States ( http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-5165.ZS.html ) case as his teaching example because Justice Scalia’s...
