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Published by Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Criminal & DUI Defense Lawyer | Crime Attorney Frederick Defense Firm

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  • The trouble with Tribble
  • Myrtle beach drug bust turns up kilos of heroin and cocaine
  • FBI tries to order Wikipedia to remove its seal from wiki entry
  • Aynor magistrate suspended
  • Pensacola officer tazes and runs over teen on bicycle
  • A world without lawyers
  • The Flower
  • Sex for legal services
  • Colorado detective charged with perjury
  • Ethics opinions
  • "Unfortunate hostility toward the government."
  • Former Horry County police officer sentenced for possession of child pornography
  • Crack/ powder cocaine sentencing bill passed US House
  • SC police misconduct update
  • Home invasion, armed robbery, and kidnapping
  • Rape by deceit or protecting racial purity
  • What is the worse crime, mass murder or the possession of drugs?
  • PCR granted in Christopher Pittman's case
  • Ohio former judge disciplined
  • Okidokie . . .
  • Florence, S.C. lawyer charged with DUI
  • Myrtle Beach police officer charged with domestic violence
  • SC Highway Patrol trooper fired after arrested on drug charges in Horry County
  • S1154 - changes to penalties for property crimes
  • Dillon's mayor pro-tem arrested
  • Myrtle Beach issues refunds for helmet fines
  • S1154 cliffnotes - sentence reductions for testimony
  • S1154 cliffnotes - burglary, disturbing schools, and licenses
  • S1154 cliffnotes - bond hearings
  • S1154 cliffnotes - arson, assault and battery, and attempted murder
  • S1154 - major overhaul of South Carolina's criminal code
  • Happy Fourth of July
  • Freedom
  • Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it . . .
  • Gant's effect in S.C. - Horry County trafficking conviction reversed
  • South Carolina police misconduct update
  • More on the war on drugs people
  • Update - prosecutor, police, judge prosecuted in Detroit for conspiracy to commit perjury
  • Judge orders defense lawyer to apologize for "impugning cop's integrity"
  • Helmet "encouraged"
  • PCR - who are you protecting?
  • Myrtle Beach helmet law overturned - too late for the bike rally, but better late than never
  • How courts chill effective advocacy
  • A bit more on Comstock
  • Graham and Comstock
  • Police misconduct in Sumter and Lee Counties
  • Anonymous callers
  • The "war on drugs" has failed, enough already
  • Addition of sex offender conditions to probation
  • Former Ninth Circuit asst. solicitor suspended for 6 months for pointing and presenting a firearm
  • Former North Charleston police officer busted with house full of explosives
  • The warrior
  • Trial theory
  • Charleston police officer resigned over sex allegations
  • Columbia police chief fired
  • Myrtle Beach Bike Week 2010
  • One more bad apple
  • More lying cops caught by video footage
  • Not pleading "sissy"
  • Federal agent indicted
  • "Contempt of cop"
  • Tilting at windmills?
  • Anger is contagious
  • Note to judge - rule in my favor and the case will not come back on appeal
  • State v. Smith - denial of continuance and severance affirmed
  • Easter Bunny attacked in New York
  • The fact that an accident has occurred does not mean a crime has occurred
  • Careful what you say
  • The problem with contempt in child support cases
  • Defense lawyer must advise of immigration consequences
  • Preparation for preparation
  • Myrtle Beach in the Spring
  • Baltimore judge marries Defendant and Victim in the middle of trial
  • Atlantic Beach looking for a new judge
  • PTSD in Biglaw?
  • Angry police and Easter bunnies
  • Being yourself
  • 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
  • Trial Chicken
  • State v. Frazier - convictions for murder and armed robbery upheld based on circumstantial evidence
  • Resonance
  • PCR - trafficking cocaine plea overturned
  • Tell me more
  • 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?
  • In the moment
  • Back to basics
  • 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
  • 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
  • The "CSI" effect
  • Smoke and mirrors
  • Not guilty in Georgetown, South Carolina
  • 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
  • GBMI and NGRI - why do we lie to juries?
  • 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
  • We are all killers at heart
  • 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
  • Credibility
  • The wonder of a child
  • Dervin v. S.C. - amount of cocaine in trafficking case must be submitted to jury
  • Opening statements - learning from the Plaintiff's bar
  • 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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