Criminal Defense

We have all seen horrific news reports about elder abuse, but most of it does not sound like anything that could happen in our own families. There are stories about nursing home employees who seek out work at nursing homes so that they can have access to the patients’ prescription medications; meanwhile, they neglect the […]

We have all heard the cautionary tales about how much trouble you can cause by spreading rumors or by believing them. By this logic, it only makes sense that the criminal courts do not normally allow hearsay evidence, where a witness testifies that he or she heard someone else say particular words. In a criminal […]

In the 1980s, cocaine was the drug everyone was afraid of. It was a popular party drug during the disco era; people under the influence were annoyingly jittery, but one must admit that neither Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours nor the classic first five seasons of Saturday Night Live would exist without cocaine. Then the media seized […]