Aggressively Defending My Clients Since 1990
This morning at 3 AM I received a frantic phone call stating, “You gotta help me man…the cops are pounding on my door….what should I do?”If you are ever in this situation, here is what I suggest you do. BE CALM. TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE, DO NOT ARGUE OR BE A SMART ASS WITH THE COPS. While some cops are…
Like many other Americans, judges believe. based on public statements from certain politicians, that crime is up in their community. This judges and the public believe violent crime has spiked. We all saw the campaign rhetoric during midterms, along with often misleading ads to justify harsh sentences or cries for bail reform. In reality, national crime data is not reliable…
American, not Russian, police have been “directed by local election officials to question voters before letting them deposit their ballots, the deputies guarding the drop boxes underscore the growing schism in this country over the debunked claims that the 2020 election was marred by rampant vote fraud.” CNN (Nov.3, 2022), https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/03/politics/elections-law-enforcement-conspiracy-theories-invs/index.html The ACLU, https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-questioning reminds you: Do you have to answer…
In the story The Pedestrian, Leonard Mead, is a citizen of a television-centered world in 2053. In the city, sidewalks have fallen into decay. Mead enjoys walking through the city at night, something which no one else does. “In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not one in…
The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution is majestic and powerful: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States…
Now that the Netflix show has been flagged to me, memories of representing Tracy Edwards (often referred to as Dahmer’s last survivor) on his own homicide charge have come flooding back. I remember his description of Dahmer talking about how he was going to eat his heart. His life was truly destroyed by his experience. I only wish as a…
Black people are seven times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of a serious offense, including murder, than white people, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Registry of Exonerations. In addition, Black people fall victim to police misconduct at a greater rate and experience longer prison times before exoneration, the report found. https://www.law.umich.edu/…/Race%20Report%20Preview.pdf
This July, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that recordings against the defendant was constitutional because the defendant’s cellmate had not acted as a government agent in making the recordings. State v. Arrington, 2022 WI 53 (July 1, 2022), https://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=540596 If the facts of this case accurately reflected that holding, I would have no complaint. Unfortunately, the court choose to omit…
Poster advertising a special issue of a Nazi newspaper about “race defilement” and the Nuremberg Laws,” US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The book Skeleton of Justice, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3767951-skeleton-of-justice was written in 1941 by Roper and Leiser. Edith Roper was one of the few correspondents to enter a Nazi courtroom so she had a clear insight what was happening in the courts. As…
And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” Luke 9:58 First the numbers: Total homeless in Wisconsin count in 2020: 4,515. That is about 8 per 10,000 people In January 2020, there were 580,466 people experiencing homelessness in America. Most were individuals…