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Following his recent victory in the Helio Castroneves tax evasion trial, Roy Black, famed trial attorney from Miami spent some time with us reflecting on that trial: Q: Thanks for your time and congratulations on the not guilty verdicts in the Helio.

Pete at Drug WarRant and Scott at Drug War Chronicle have each fired off very sharp critiques of George Will's fairly awful column from Sunday's Washington Post, which seems to be an attempt to out-do James Wilson in its celebration of American incarceration rates. The main point.

A Brief Overview of Law Reforms for Rape and Sexual Assault  The feminist movement in the United States has brought about significant reforms to the manner in which rape is defined and prosecuted in the United States. States vary upon the specifics.

The trial of former San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds on four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice commenced yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The.

To date, no reported decisions mention the employment of the "Chewbacca Defense" at trial, despite the passage of almost 14 years from the late Johnnie L. Cochran’s demonstration in 1998 of the novel and innovative defense on the 14th episode of the.

After the Enron scandal, Congress aimed to pass a law prohibiting the destruction of evidence and preventing similar scams from occurring. The result was Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), an unwieldy law that prosecutors have increasingly been applying to a very broad range of different.

In March of 2010, a bank called Park Avenue Bank failed. The former bank president subsequently became the first person in the United States who was convicted of stealing funds provided to bail out banks as part of the Troubled Asset Relief.

Over 300 street gangs are situated in the Las Vegas Valley. Police say that number is growing because members are breaking ties and creating new factions. About 20,000 members (which equates to 6/1000 residents in Nevada) are in this area, based on.

Originally posted on Drug Law Blog by attorney Alex Coolman This week is the second anniversary of this blog's debut in the world (with this unremarkable post) in April of 2006. I completely forgot about the first anniversary, but I've been thinking.

Note: I first wrote this post back in March when James Q. Wilson published an op-ed in several major American newspapers defending America's intense use of prisons. I decided not to publish it at the time, but today I see that Wilson.