Our criminal justice system simply does not have the resources to hold a trial for every case, so the great majority of criminal cases are resolved through a negotiation process known as “plea ...

In a pair of recent decisions - Lafler v. Cooper and Missouri v. Frye - the U.S. Supreme Court held that criminal defendants have the right to effective assistance of counsel during the ...

Plea bargaining is back in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. For the third time in little more than two years, the court is being asked to decide the reach of the Sixth Amendment as it relates to the ...

In 2006, George Alvarez was charged with assaulting a prison guard while awaiting trial on public intoxication. He knew he didn’t do it — the guards actually jumped him — but the ten year mandatory ...

This afternoon, I filed a motion for the Boeing 737 MAX crashes victims' families whom I represent in the criminal case against Boeing. As readers of the blog will recall from my earlier posts (e.g., ...

The High Court in Kitgum has concluded 25 criminal cases through a two-day plea bargaining camp conducted inside Kitgum Prison, in a move aimed at reducing case backlog and prison congestion.The ...