- Juvenile desensitization
- State v. Stahlnecker - CSC with minor conviction affirmed
- State v. Brayboy - murder conviction reversed
- 2683 days
- It turns out the "crack" was not in plain view, after all
- State v. Williams - death penalty affirmed
- State v. Frazier - convictions for murder and armed robbery upheld based on circumstantial evidence
- PCR - trafficking cocaine plea overturned
- PCR granted for failure to object to hearsay and bolstering by forensic interviewer
- 4th Cir. - ACCA not triggered by failure to stop for blue light
- Or maybe the lottery?
- Free money. Really.
- Links
- Mexican drug cartels in South Carolina?
- Lawyer advertising - where do we draw the line?
- Ben Field suspended for four years
- Myrtle Beach Receptionist Job
- Trooper changes breathalyzer result
- The cycle of abuse
- Duke lacrosse accuser charged with attempted murder
- Jury gives $4.25 million in false arrest suit
- 1983 action filed against first circuit solicitor
- CI not necessary to establish chain of custody
- Disciplinary opinions
- Juvenile court waiver
- Another attorney death
- State v. Elders - double jeopardy does not bar prosecutions for carjacking and kidnapping
- Pickens lawyer shot and killed
- Judicial elections
- Spartanburg County clerk of court arrested
- Conway S.C. police officer charged with CDV
- Smoke and mirrors
- Briscoe v. Virginia remanded to state court
- New public defender blog
- Another Wal-mart death
- Lawsuit of CDV victim attacked at bond hearing can go forward
- North Myrtle Beach police department investigated for CDV cover-up
- Surfside Beach Mayor charged with DUI
- California judge dismisses case after finding prosecutorial misconduct
- Criminal defense lawyer pleads to money laundering
- Lawyer turns informant against client
- Myrtle Beach helmet law arguments set for February 3
- Pottawattamie County case settled for $12 million
- Another South Carolina officer charged with DUI over the weekend
- The pervasiveness of police misconduct
- Then what's the point in having a gun permit?
- Two South Carolina officers charged with DUI over the holidays
- Football
- In re Walter M. - juvenile conviction for murder affirmed
- S.C. Supreme Court affirms Columbia lawyer's conviction for murder
- Melina S. Benninghoff, Fresno criminal defense lawyer and former King's County prosecutor
- State v. Anderson - authentication of fingerprint card does not require testimony of the person who took the fingerprints
- Dervin v. S.C. - amount of cocaine in trafficking case must be submitted to jury
- Preserving the right to a fair trial, at least for the wealthy
- Happy Holidays from the DOT
- The First Annual Bloggers’ Best Awards
- Maricopa County lawyers turnout in protest
- D.C. cop takes a gun to a snowball fight
- Maricopa defense lawyers fight back
- Hot Coffee
- DUI - this is not quotas, it's the reward system
- Another lawsuit filed against Georgia for failure to provide attorneys for indigent defendants
- More . . . Arpaio . . . Maricopa . . .
- Continuing to shine the light on Maricopa County
- Random DUI stops
- Judicial ethics and Facebook
- SCOTUS reverses death sentence of Korean war vet
- St. John's Sheriff's Office sued for secretly videotaping attorney-client meeting
- Sheriff's deputies beat up public defenders in New Orleans
- Maricopa county attorney files charges against judge for hindering prosecution?
- Maricopa update
- How to testify
- Federal prosecutor avoids DUI charge
- Lack of funding for defense attorneys blamed for "kids for cash" debacle
- Orleans Parish public defender says he may refuse cases if funding is not increased
- Myrtle Beach police help man get his drug money back
- Simels sentenced to 14 years
- Links
- Maricopa County contempt proceedings
- DUI enforcement, at the gates
- The new age of internet sleuthing
- Michigan prosecutor threatens to sue over budget cuts
- Links
- Perspectives
- Montejo Part II
- Citizens arrest
- Clinton police officer arrested for DUI
- Montejo Part I
- Horry County verdicts
- Prelude to Montejo
- The other side
- Candor to the court
- Louisiana Capital Appeals Project director accused of embezzlement
- Legal marketing
- Public defender charged with DUI
- The most famous case in legal history
- John Allen Muhammad executed
- Time
- "I believe" license plate issued by DMV held unconstitutional
- Alabama judge acquitted of sex charges (maybe)
- When is metadata considered Brady material?
- Trial preparation
- Belcher - inference of malice from the use of a deadly weapon
- Criminalizing addiction
- Things are not always what they seem
- Wanted: legal secretary to perform sex acts
- Union County Sheriff and other officials arrested
- DUI in a Laz-E-Boy
- A new prosecutor blog
- Jamie Leigh Jones amendment to defense contractors bill passed
- The latest on Willingham
- Louisiana justice of the peace refuses to marry interracial couple
- God Bless America
- Charleston police obtain search warrant, seize documents from attorney's investigators
- The Scarlet Letter
- More on Governor Perry's derailing of the Willingham investigation
- Client confidences
- Texas governor replaces panel investigating wrongful execution
- Wake Up
- Death Penalty trial results in mistrial, life without parole
- Myrtle Beach's efforts to kill motorcycle rallies have mounting costs
- Is evidence of flight alone sufficient to sustain a verdict?
- Multiple offenses in different counties
- Police Links
- Boston lawyer acquitted of drug charges
- Tip for would-be burglars
- Horry County lawyer charged with solicitation of murder
- Reverse Batson
- Atlantic Beach Mayor arrested again
- Random police links
- "Kids for cash" judges indicted by federal grand jury
- Death Penalty Hyjinks in Charleston
- Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce sues anonymous commenter
- Dean and Gaither not charged
- Links
- Fun in the municipal court
- Myrtle Beach police officer charged with DUI
- Trial lawyer, criminal or civil
- Watering the right-brain
- Business as usual?
- Myrtle Beach/ Horry County Officers expose themselves in public
- Horry County Solicitor receives award for killing defendants
- Freedom
- Trial Lawyers College
- Melendez-Diaz v. Mass. - chemists affidavits violate the Confrontation Clause
- A tale of two dismissals
- Contrast in extremes of punishment
- Judges gone wild
- Two new criminal defense opinions from SCOTUS
- New amendments to South Carolina expungement law
- South Carolina Supreme Court agrees to hear helmet law controversy
- FBI investigation of Jay Hodge and 4th circuit solicitor's office
- Why isn't mainstream news media reporting on the Hodges scandal in the Fourth Circuit?
- Pay to stay?
- Proffers
- Should police officers prosecute their own misdemeanor cases?
- Sergeant Bill
- FBI investigates 4th Circuit Solicitor's Office
- Court of Appeals reverses based on discovery violation
- Continuous offense theory
- Change of venue
- Attorney arrested for bringing two ounces of weed into courthouse
- Mexican jailbreak
- Attorney fees
- The right to be let alone
- Informant legislation - some progress in two troubling areas of criminal law
- May Bike Rally Checkpoints
- Myrtle Beach helmet law goes to S.C. Supreme Court
- Myrtle Beach May Bike Rallies are still on
- Denial of the right to counsel in misdemeanor courts
- Justice Department asks Congress to revisit the disparity in crack / powder cocaine sentences
- Justice Souter to retire
- Cone v. Bell
- Dean v. United States
- Statements obtained illegally may be used for impeachment purposes
- An eloquent guilty plea
- The Fourth Amendment lives
- Defendant's mouth bound with duct tape during hearing
- Baptist minister beaten and tazed by border patrol
- Notice of trial
- South Carolina Courts bow to Patriot Act provisions
- Waiver of right to counsel
- Stevens prosecutors under investigation
- Police raid home of police misconduct blogger in Phoenix
- Charges to be dropped against former Senator Ted Stevens?
- Creative lawyering
- DNA exonerations
- Indigent defendants in S.C. are entitled to less conflict-free representation
- Chief Justice warns that ordinances aimed at bikers are unconstitutional
- Nothing to lose
- Ineffective assistance of counsel - attorney does not convey plea offer to client
- Holding police and prosecutors accountable for misconduct
- Conviction for paraphernalia cannot be used to enhance drug offense
- The solo criminal defense practice
- Rule 11 sanctions do not apply in PCR actions
- Judge Goode retires
- New Mexico repeals the death penalty
- Speedy trial right - Vermont v. Brillon
- Myrtle Beach's helmet law
- Myrtle Beach begins enforcement of ordinances designed to force out bike rally
- The cost of wrongful convictions
- S.C. Highway Patrol officer arrested for DUI
- Juvenile Justice
- In re Boyce - attorney disciplined for issuing improper subpoena
- More on the abuse of subpoenas by the Horry County Solicitor's Office
- More directly on point
- U.S. v. Hayes and collateral consequences of a domestic violence plea
- U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent pleads guilty to obstruction of justice
- Impeachment by IPod
- Abuse of the subpoena power
- State v. Wharton - voluntary and involuntary manslaughter
- State v. Stokes - confrontation clause and prior bad acts
- SCDMV is not > magistrate or municipal judge
- S.C. judge rules that Texas hold'em is a game of skill not chance - then convicts the defendants anyway
- Texas judge Sharon Keller subject to impeachment
- Manufactured bite marks - Dr. Steven Hayne and Dr. Michael West
- More prosecutor misconduct links
- Prosecutorial round-up
- Steve Wilson - internet marketing specialist - toprankinglinks.com
- Murder conviction affirmed - another premature "stand your ground" case
- Police perjury
- Expungement of youthful offender convictions clarified by S.C. Supreme Court
- Sheriff Lott anounces that he will not charge Phelps
- No probable cause hearings for magistrate-level offenses
- Texas sheriff pleads guilty to raping informant
- Disciplinary opinions
- Increasing defendant's sentence was not acceptable punishment for contempt
- Pa judges to plead guilty today to charges of jailing kids for cash
- Judicial independence
- South Carolina's new DUI law took effect today
- Eight arrested in Phelps Fiasco
- The drowning man
- When does a mistrial result in double jeopardy
- Texas hold 'em - a game of chance or skill?
- 12 year delay in DMV's DUI suspension enjoined
- 3 U.S. Supreme Court opinions released today on criminal law issues
- Ohio defense attorney turned informant, now practicing criminal defense in Denver
- A pig in the parlor
- Seizure of personal property from jail does not require a search warrant
- Forensic interviewer should not have been qualified as expert
- Request to withdraw Alford plea is in trial court's discretion
- Clear error for trial judge to exclude testimony regarding Spect scan
- Cause lawyers
- SCCID announces temporary resumption of payments to appointed attorneys
- Time
- Time-keeping
- Defense attorneys with drugs in courthouses
- Aiken, S.C. narcotics officers will not be charged with misconduct
- Appointed attorneys to be paid through March 1st
- Payment plans
- Links
- Generalizing about public defenders
- Alabama sheriff pockets money instead of feeding inmates
- No-one ever won a trial by pleading guilty
- South Carolina attorneys ask courts to halt prosecutions until State comes up with funding
- Defendant held in constructive contempt is entitled to counsel
- Horry County prosecutors
- R.I.P.
- Horry County has the highest number of DUI arrests over the holidays
- LAPD attempted to reverse coroner's verdict
- More charges brought against South Carolina troopers
- 4th Circuit - U.S. v. Dunphy
- Jail phone calls
- Juvenile's confession upheld on appeal
- Ohio public defender's contempt case reversed
- S.C. Bar releases statement in response to suspension of legal fees for court-appointed attorneys
- Indigent defense - ethics
- State habeas relief in South Carolina
- Indigent defense - what can be done
- Beaufort County Sheriff is in violation of FOIA, says AG's opinion
- Md state trooper fired after (allegedly) kidnapping a man in his patrol car while drunk
- S.C. indigent defenders have dropped the ball
- Defense lawyer arrested for giving candy to his client in court
- DNA exonerations are best when they happen before the conviction
- Indigent defense - SCCID suspends payments to Rule 608 appointed lawyers
- The danger of ever-expanding DNA databases
- DMV violates S.C. law on compiling jury lists
- No funding for indigent defense?
- On the lighter side . . .
- Ben Kuehne's money laundering charge dismissed
- US v. Whorley - 4th Circuit
- The child sexual abuse exception to the rule against propensity evidence
- Mobile breathalyzer visits Mount Pleasant, S.C.
- A defense lawyer's duty to investigate
- Holiday gift shopping
- Matt Shirk again
- Client confidentiality v. duty of candor to the court
- Liberty's last champions?
- Catching up
- Pogan indicted
- More on Elections of Public Defenders and Solicitors
- Scientists extract images directly from the brain
- Federal investigation exposes cops working for drug dealers
- Dilbert
- Gowdy v. Gibson - IN REM: $146,050.00 in U.S. Currency
- Turner v. State - when to advise of right to appeal from guilty plea
- Government regulation of dress codes
- Criminal law cases at the U.S. Supreme Court
- Honea Path magistrate arrested
- Drug law reform
- Neuroscience and the courts - trial application
- Neuroscience and the courts - this is your brain on adolescence
- Trooper who was given award by MADD now under investigation for police abuse and perjury
- No right against self-incrimination in SVP proceedings
- South Carolina executes last death row inmate of the year
- Police distribute playing cards with information on cases at Charleston detention center
- No charges filed in North Myrtle Beach Walmart death
- Cop - Busters reverse sting
- European Court of Human Rights holds that DNA samples taken from persons charged but not convicted must be destroyed
- Irony
- Another Walmart death
- Confidential informants
- Jailhouse informants
- Hedgepath v. Pulido
- Repeal Day's 75th anniversary
- ABA's top blogs
- Arizona criminal defense blog
- More on the Myrtle Beach crime rate
- Blawgers blogging about blawgers and marketing and stuff
- More agencies not complying with FOIA
- State v. McGrier to be applied retroactively
- PCR - uncounseled magistrate court conviction cannot be used for enhancement
- Charleston, S.C. police department refuses to release FOIA materials
- Myrtle Beach 14th most dangerous place in the U.S.?
- anonymous quote
- Elected public defenders
- the "CSI effect"
- A must-read for trial lawyers
- Cop in Chicago testifies about bribing judge, planting drugs
- Attorney conducted voir dire
- Where is indigent defense in the Horry County magistrate's court?
- Journalistic ethics
- PCR - defense lawyer has a duty to advise client as to lesser included offenses
- Raising the bar
- Leaving Houston
- The jury's role
- Sale of alcohol to minors
- The judge's role
- DUI pleas at bond hearings
- State v. Dickey and S.C.'s "stand your ground" law
- Dreadlocks is not a race-neutral reason to strike juror
- Defending drug crimes
- Disciplinary actions
- The importance of media in government accountability
- Public defenders refuse clients due to overwhelming caseloads
- Murder trial
- Do innocent persons go to prison?
- Jobs are getting harder to find for new lawyers
- Everyone deserves a defense
- DNA testing bill passes S.C. House and Senate
- Three lawsuits filed to declare Myrtle Beach's bike rally ordinances unconstitutional
- New laws track child predators online
- Appointment of counsel in PCR cases
- DNA exonerations given attention by national media
- How to encourage constitutional violations by police officers
- State v. Gaines, foreshadowing of State v. Wallace?
- Judge injected himself into investigation in Bell case
- Lawsuit filed against S.C. trooper
- Trooper acquitted in South Carolina civil rights trial
- Police cameras are coming to a neighborhood near you
- Trial to begin this week in Highway Patrol case
- Sentence reduction as a remedy for prosecutorial misconduct
- Buzzed driving is not drunk driving
- For nine years, lawyer kept client's secret regarding murder case
- Veteran's treatment courts
- Marijuana arrests increased in 2007
- Hood's execution stayed
- Myrtle Beach continues efforts to shut down the May bike rally
- Copy and paste DUI reports
- Criminal defense lawyer's office searched in New Jersey
- Judge who signed search warrants for attorney's office recused from murder case
- Official obstruction of justice
- Brooklyn lawyer Marina Tylo sues blogger for reporting that she was sued for malpractice
- Another attorney's office raided
- Ignition interlocks for all (MADD's agenda)
- DUI - Ignition interlocks and vehicle immobilization
- State v. Spoone - S.C. approves waivers of appeal and PCR in plea agreements
- Sober or slammer
- Winning your case anthology
- South Carolina evangelist charged with DUI
- Life sentence for drunk driving
- Anderson, S.C. magistrate charged with DUI
- Not guilty in Aiken, S.C.
- Justice
- 50 lawyers showed up to support Texas lawyer whose office was searched by police
- California bans uncorroborated testimony by jailhouse snitches
- Mistrial in Horry County child sexual abuse case
- Closer to home - Greenville S.C. sheriff's deputy beats teenager on camera
- West Palm Beach officers fired after beating handcuffed suspect
- Boston juror removed from case for questioning the constitutionality of statute
- Winning your case
- Marijuana victim
- Mexican cartels growing marijuana in National Forests
- Lancaster, S.C. Courthouse and Solicitor's Office burned
- Criminal defense or a cog in the machine
- More video of NYPD and Critical Mass bicyclists
- Magicians and perception
- The Hero's Journey
- Miller v. S.C. - counsel ineffective for failing to pursue third party guilt defense
- Greenwood magistrate found not guilty
- Tennessee Judge clarifies ruling on Moncier's suspension
- More lying cops
- NYPD assaults bicyclist, ongoing police abuse in NYC
- Undercover informants
- Resisting an unlawful arrest?
- State v. Brannon - resisting arrest first requires an arrest
- MADD presents awards for most DUI arrests
- Bicycling while intoxicated
- Why prosecutors should not rely on jailhouse snitches
- Constitutional right to access evidence for DNA testing
- Reese Joye
- Are lawyer/ public officials subject to ethics rules?
- DNA evidence and why we trust the government
- Judge signs search warrant for attorney's files
- The politics of Kennedy v. Louisiana
- Self defense and involuntary manslaughter are not mutually exclusive
- What motivates prosecutors?
- Room 8 subpoena related to death threat investigation
- Kentucky judges order public defenders to take cases
- Abuse of the subpoena power by prosecutors
- Complaining witnesses as prosecutors part II
- How to hide your weed
- A JonBenet Ramsey hypothetical
- How to avoid police abuse
- Police encounters and the magic words
- Racial profiling on South Carolina Interstates
- Complaining witnesses as prosecutors
- Necrophilia is against the law in Wisconsin, after all
- Standing up and fighting for your clients
- Police abuse videos
- Williams - kidnapping and the sex offender registry
- Who benefits from the "war on drugs?"
- DUI a victimless crime?
- Boating under the influence
- Independence Day - remember what we are celebrating
- Richland County Deputy charged with hit and run and DUI
- U.S. Government holds patents to Medical Marijuana?
- Ignorance Is No Excuse
- Bloggers blogging about blawgs
- Sanford vetoes South Carolina DNA testing bill
- Groome - S.C. Supreme Court invalidates "driver's license checkpoint"
- Lying cops
- DNA testing bill waiting for governor's signature
- The devil made me do it
- Texas 32, South Carolina 1
- Bost . . . Texas Legal
- A thankless job
- Getting to know your clients
- Heller - SCOTUS strikes down D.C. ban on handguns
- Thank you to the public defenders
- Guilty until proven innocent
- South Carolina's Attorney General tells prosecutors to ignore U.S. Supreme Court decision
- Another take on Baze v. Rees
- Death Penalty as punishment for child rape ruled unconstitutional
- About wrongful convictions
- Manhattan prosecutor helped defense to win Palladium murders post-conviction hearing
- Rothgery v. Gillespie County - was an appeal from a 1983 claim
- Keeping up with criminal defense blogs
- Police abuse in the blawgosphere
- There is no downside to preliminary hearings in state court
- The pros and cons of polygraphs
- House and Senate democrats discuss drug policy
- Regina McKnight released from prison
- Seizure of drug money or highway robbery
- Laura L. Loder joins Frederick Defense Firm
- Trooper indicted for civil rights violation
- South Carolina passes new sex offender law
- State v. Tindall - South Carolina Court of Appeals rejects Fourth Amendment in cocaine trafficking case
- Caldwell and the problem with discovery violations
- Teachers defend DUI hoax
- Defense attorney volunteers to represent terrorist
- Happy birthday Miranda
- Defending Kozinski
- Boumediene v. Bush - the United States Supreme Court holds that Gitmo detainees have rights after all
- Judge Alex Kozinski - porn-haulic or victim of slander and invasion of privacy?
- David Mark Hill executed
- Senate overrides governor's indigent defense veto
- Law Graduate denied Michigan law license for being critical of the State Bar
- At what point does a rising crime rate justify doing away with Constitutional protections?
- Wiesart - 1996 amendment to sex offender registry statute is retroactive
- Chinese defenders disbarred for volunteering to represent Tibetans
- California's proposed amendments to Code of Conduct
- Chief Justice Toal speaks out on Sanford's veto of indigent defense funding
- Fieger and Johnson acquitted in Detroit campaign finance case
- Police misconduct in the news
- MADD stages DUI deaths to scare high school students?
- Criminal domestic violence
- Kentucky public defender asks judges to order State to pay for indigent defense
- DUI attorney's wife arrested
- Scott prosecutors publicly challenge judge
- Governor vetoes indigent defense funding bill
- Senator Scott's DUI dismissed
- The concerned, well meaning citizen - DUI lay witnesses
- DUI fanatics
- Mandatory minimum sentences
- Update on Moncier's fight in the Eastern District of Tennessee
- McGrier - South Carolina community supervision statute held unconstitutional
- "The DUI Exception to the Constitution"
- The proposed No Parole Bill and Middle Courts
- California prosecutor faces disciplinary hearing for misconduct
- No more parole in South Carolina?
- More on the Pew Center Study
- Bolin's implications on South Carolina's minor in possession laws
- DUI breath test results suppressed in 49 cases in Tucson
- More than 1 in 100 American Adults incarcerated
- Should prosecutors be criminally liable for intentional misconduct?
- Lori Drew indicted in California
- Regina McKnight's case overturned on PCR
- Bert von Hermann leaving the 15th circuit solicitor's office
- Bite mark database?
- Orangeburg DUI attorney still under pressure
- Proposed bill would permit DNA samples to be taken before conviction
- USSCT will hear prosecutorial immunity case
- South Carolina's new DUI law
- More on the SCHP fiasco
- South Carolina Highway Patrol misdeeds
- GBI admits they screwed up fingerprint analysis
- The shady world of informants
- Jails, telephones, and audiotapes
- DNA testing bill update
- Tennessee attorney Moncier suspended from federal practice
- Hill v. State clears way to execution
- Virginia v. Moore
- Orangeburg and Greenwood County Solicitors publicly sanction police misconduct
- No intent?
- Adam Reposa's day in court
- Policing the police
- Senator Randy Scott's DUI arrest
- Frederick Defense Firm's Florence office is now open
- Post-Conviction DNA Testing Procedures Act waiting for Senate approval in South Carolina
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