by the late Mark Sullivan, Board Certified Criminal Defense Attorney, Palm Springs, California. Originally printed in 2004 and reprinted with permission from Crime, Justice and America magazine Clients choose their lawyer based upon a number of factors, but one is most common. Everyone wants to know what the attorney is going to do, and how […]
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Up To The Preliminary Hearing By Kirk Tarman, Criminal Defense Attorney in San Bernardino County, California. Originally published in 2006 and reposted with permission from Crime, Justice and America magazine Many time defendants are thrust into the hostile waters of the criminal justice system without any idea what is going on and what their rights
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF AND HELP YOURSELF: By Andrew Dósa – Criminal Defense Attorney in Alameda County California. Originally published in 2007 and reprinted with permission from Crimina Justice and America magazine Up until now, you’ve been silent. You wanted to speak up, but someone else did the talking, explaining, arguing, and negotiating for you. Your
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An Interview With “Donnie Brasco” An Interview with Joseph D. Pistone – Author of “Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia” and “The Way of the Wiseguy ” by the late Bill Bickel – former Managing Editor of Crime, Justice and America magazine. Originally published in 2004 and reposted with permission from Crime, Justice
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By Stuart Kirchick – Criminal Defense Attorney in Santa Clara County, California since 1989 As a second-year law student in 1988, I attended a conference of criminal defense attorneys in San Francisco where half the day was devoted to discovery procedures for the disclosure of informants. In discussing the subject, each prominent attorney proudly announced
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Originally printed in 2002 in Crime, Justice and America magazine and reposted with permission from Crime, Justice and America magazine A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her license.She replied in a huff, “I wish you guys would get your act together. Just yesterday you
by the late Wally Farrell, Certified Criminal Law Spcialist, San Bernardino and Riverside County, California. Originally printed in 2004 and reprinted with permission from Crime, Justice and America magazine Habeas corpus (roughly, “you should have the body”) has been a capstone of Anglo-American jurisprudence for many centuries, beginning in 1215: Abuses by King John led
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PRO or CON By Chris Finnie – former Contributing Author to Crime, Justice and America magazine. Originally published in 2002 and reposted with permission from Crime, Justice and America magazine In July of this year, two California inmates filed a suit with the Ninth Circuit of Appeals saying that the parole board was discriminating against
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Do Inmates Have The Right To Father Children? PRO or CON By Chris Finnie – former Contributing Author to Crime, Justice and America magazine. Originally published in 2002 and reposted with permission from Crime, Justice and America magazine Male Order Male? Over the years, a number of issues on the rights of prisoners have been
By Anthony Fiore, Ph.D., The Anger Coach. Originally published in Crime, Justice and America magazine in 2005 and reposted with permission from Crime, Justice and America magazine It seems that anger is everywhere in our society. One just has to read the newspaper daily or watch the evening news to conclude that controlling one’s angry
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