A hundred years earlier, in Hopt v. Utah, the Supreme Court ruled that a confession is not admissible if it is obtained by operating on the hopes or fears of the accused, and in doing so deprives him...
1956, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a case known as Bishop v. United States, ruled that the conviction of a mentally incompetent person was a denial of due process. Where doubt exists as to a person’s me...
In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.
I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics shou...
Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.
Litigation funders are private companies that raise money from their investors to buy into big lawsuits.
Her mind was wonderfully uncluttered with the nagging irritations of everyday life.
You’re beautiful, he said. When was the last time I told you that you are beautiful? About two hours ago. Two hours! How thoughtless of me! Don’t let it happen again. He
You look at the crime and you look at the criminal. If it's a dope dealer who guns down an undercover narcotics officer, then he gets the gas. If it's a drifter who rapes a three-year-old girl, drowns...
You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.
You advised him not to get a lawyer, giving as one of your reasons the opinion that lawyers are a pain in the ass. Gentlemen, the pain is here.-Reggie Love
What would his friends think? The Honorable Hatlee Beech, federal judge, writing prose like a faggot, extorting money out of innocent people.
We all have our little secrets, and as long as they're harmless, who really cares? With time, the secrets often go away and things don't matter anymore.
There was something unfair about a system in which a little kid was brought into a courtroom and surrounded by lawyers arguing and sniping at each other under the scornful eye of a judge, the referee,...
The relief came from the sudden realization that she had just been freed from a job she despised.
Relief, fear, and humiliation. Her parents paid for a pricey prep school education in D.C. She graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown with a degree in political science. She breezed through law sch...
In the bottom right-hand corner was a decent-sized color photo of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Trudeau posing with their new acquisition. Brianna, ever photogenic, as she damned well be, emanated glamour. Carl l...
I wished i were seven feet tall. I'd hop up there and attack ol' Samson while the crowd went wild. I'd whip him good, send him flying, and become the biggest hero in Black Oak. But, for now, I could o...
He did smile at her, though, but she did not return the smile. Her teeth were somewhere in the house.
Did you know that some of the counties in the coalfields have the highest rates of cancer in the country?