by Webmaster | Mar 15, 2016 | Environmental Legal Defense, Jury Selection
“The German shipping companies Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG and Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG MS “Extum,” who owned and operated the cargo ship M/V BBC Magellan, pleaded guilty today to failure to maintain an accurate oil record book, in violation of...
by Webmaster | Feb 2, 2016 | Environmental Legal Defense
“Virginia-based hardwood flooring retailer Lumber Liquidators Inc. was sentenced today in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia, and will pay more than $13 million in criminal fines, community service and forfeited assets related to its illegal importation of hardwood...
by Webmaster | Jan 20, 2016 | Criminal Defense Law Articles
The Supreme Court held that Florida’s Death Penalty sentencing statute is unconstitutional because it requires the judge to make the findings justifying a death sentence, but the constitution requires a jury to make the findings. Read the opinion here:...
by Webmaster | Aug 22, 2014 | Criminal Defense Law Articles
What would federal prosecutors have to prove in the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri? Some commentators have assumed that the police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, could be charged with a federal civil rights violation if he was negligent or reckless in...
by Webmaster | Aug 12, 2014 | Criminal Defense Law Articles
The United States Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has filed a record number of criminal police-misconduct cases and aggressively uses civil laws to force reform at police departments across the country. Following a 3-year federal...
by Webmaster | Jul 29, 2014 | Criminal Defense Law Articles
Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide, playing a role in 72 percent of the convictions overturned through DNA testing. In case after case, DNA has proven what scientists already know-that eyewitness identification...
