Aggressively Defending My Clients Since 1990
THE SUPREME COURT AS A BETRAYER OF THE LAW
Through this method of questioning, answering… questioning, answering… we seek to develop in you the ability to analyze… that vast complex of facts that constitute… the relationships of members within a given society. You come in here with a skull full of mush… and you leave thinking like a lawyer. Prof. Kingsfield, The Paper Chase (1973) Law students are taught…
REPUBLICAN SENATORS ARE IGNORANT: THE NEED TO LEARN THE HISTORY OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONS INVOLVING RACE
Dear Senator Cruz and company, Your refusal to acknowledge that race CONFLICT is an important part of US Supreme Court jurisprudence proves the depth of your ignorance and bias. You would benefit from reading Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court by Orville Vernon Burton which is the first comprehensive accounting of the U.S. Supreme Court’s race-related jurisprudence; a legacy…
IN AMERICA, MONEY CAN BUY YOU FREEDOM IN YOUR CRIMINAL CASE
Francis Scott Key is the author of the famous words “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” He wrote those words in 1814 and, ever since 1931, they have been sung as the national anthem of the United States. Unfortunately, “the land of the free and the home of the brave” likes to keep people presumed…
IS U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR THE ONLY JUSTICE WHO CARES ABOUT ATTORNEY ETHICS?
The right to effective assistance of counsel is protected by the sixth amendment to the United States Constitution, made applicable to the states through the fourteenth amendment, and by art. 1, sec. 7, of the Wisconsin Constitution. Cuyler v. Sullivan, 446 U.S. 335, 344 (1980); State v. Franklin, 111 Wis.2d 681, 686, 331 N.W.2d 633, 636 (Ct.App. 1983). Counsel for…
Thompson v. Trump: THE RULE OF LAW, NOT THE RULE OF PASSION, MUST GOVERN AMERICA
George Washington possessed enormous power and popularity as the head of the American army during the Revolutionary War. However, he understood that the rule of law needed to be respected and demonstrated immense responsibility while president. “Passion influences those who are in power…Law is reason without desire.” This principle is known as the rule of law, and America’s Founders knew…
THE WANDERING COP: ENSURING POLICE INTEGRITY BY POLICE TRANSPARENCY
Do you want someone who is allowed to wear a gun in public, use force to stop someone and shoot the person, perhaps killing them, for failing to comply with any order to stop to have a questionable background? Little known by the public they are supposed to protect, there is a group of police officers who have been fired…
THE CONTINUED JUDICIAL EVISCERATION OF YOUR FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS: NO KNOCK WARRANTS
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black medical worker in Louisville, Kentucky, was shot to death by police shortly after midnight on March 13, 2020, in the apartment she shared with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker. The police had a no-knock warrant and entered with a battering ram to search for evidence of drug dealing; none was found. Or what of the shooting…
TRAFFIC STOPS OF DEAF MOTORISTS
Imagine car that the police are attempting to pull over for one of the million traffic violations a cop can use to pull you over. But in this scenario we are imaging, the car does not pull over for the squad car. Immediately, the cop must become stressed. When enforcement decides to pull you over, the cop does not know…
PASSENGERS AND DRUNK DRIVING LAW
Once stopped can police order passengers out of the car and pat them down?Yes. An officer making a traffic stop may order passengers out of car pending completion of the routine traffic stop. Maryland v. Wilson, 519 U.S. 408, 413-15(1997). Once ordered out, driver and passengers can be patted down (and under certain circumstances, cops can draw weapons, handcuff and…