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Among the many rules of thumb a criminal defense lawyer consults in the day-to-day practice of law is the following: Delay always favors the defense. If that rule of thumb is in fact true, then Connecticut criminal defense lawyers ought to thank the heavens each morning. The criminal courts in this...

In the glory days, when Clarence Darrow argued from morning ‘til night, and crowds fought for a seat in the gallery, a criminal trial was both entertainment and constitutional convention. Folks fought for seats, to be present at the event, and to register their support for one side or the...

Paul Gilding doesn’t mince any words. Things are going to get bad. Very bad. What will be required is a mobilization of social resources, a reorientation in the way we relate to one another and to the world, that will make our transition to a war economy in the Second World War look trivial....

I got a chance yesterday to see what freedom looks like: freedom is a man still dressed in his orange prison jump suit springing from the passenger seat of your car into the waiting arms of a loved one standing outside a housing project. Freedom is the stunned, even shocked look of two brothers...

In the blood-sport that is capital litigation, ends often justify the means. The fight to save a client’s life can yield conduct that lawyers would not otherwise condone. And the state, as always, has the means, opportunity and motive to engage in strategic deception, as in all cases. The...

Earlier this year, I asked Robert Fogelnest, past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, to read a draft of my new book, Taking Back the Courts. Bob's a good friend, now living as an expatriate in Mexico after decades of courtroom fighting in the United States. We...

Anthony Weiner lacks inhibitions. Now he lacks a job. Time now for the next question: Are we out of our minds?
The seven-term former Congressman, age 46, has an active libido. When he shared photographic images of himself with young women on Facebook and Twitter, he took a self-destructive,...

It’s time to put the potted-plant theory of the separation of powers doctrine to rest. Jack B. Weinstein, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, is proof that it can be done. All it takes is a judiciary determined to take its role as judges...

Some folks are bigger than their critics. When I asked Gerry Spence to look over a draft of my new book, I expected him to decline. But he did not. He wrote the introduction, proving once again that a kind gesture speaks far louder than noisy recrimination.
Introduction
To...

Here's the foreward to my new book, Taking Back the Courts, written by an idol of mine, F. Lee Bailey. To say I was thrilled to get this review is an understatement.
FOREWORD
Several years ago I was asked by my most important client at the time to find him a fearless, highly...