“J4guar17″ a/k/a “Soupnazi” a/k/a Super Hacker Albert Gonzalez Pleads Guilty...
Once again demonstrating the massive potential for crime created by our digital age, 28 year-old Albert Gonzalez pled guilty to two counts of conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to payment card...
View ArticleDOJ Issues New Discovery Guidelines for Prosecutors
As set forth in the official DOJ Blog yesterday, Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden issued three Memorandum to DOJ prosecutors no doubt intended to remedy some of the setbacks the Department...
View ArticleThe 00s:The Decade Technology Transformed the Practice of Law; Chinese...
The Fulton County Daily Report’s "The Snark" has illustrated, in a tounge-in-cheek manner, what has indisputably been the biggest change in the practice of law–including criminal law–over the decade...
View ArticleDOJ Publishes Reference for Search and Seizure of Electronic Evidence
A large portion of government searches and seizures today involve the seizure and search of electronic media and information. The manner in which such searches and seizures of electronic media and...
View ArticleJustice John Paul Stevens on Criminal Law
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who notified President Barack Obama last week that he will be stepping down from the Court when its current term is over in June or July, has written nearly 400...
View ArticleElena Kagan on Criminal Law
President Obama is expected to announce today his nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens. Solicitor General Kagan has been one of the presumptive leading...
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Julian Heicklen, 80 Year-Old Jury Nullification Advocate, Charged With Jury...
"No free man shall be captured, and or imprisoned, or disseised of his freehold, and or of his liberties, or of his free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed...
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“Chewbacca Defense” Continues to Go Unmentioned By Courts 14 Years On
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...
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60 Federal Judges and Prosecutors File Brief in Shaygan Prosecutorial...
As noted by the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog, on Thursday more than 60 Federal judges and prosecutors filed a brief in the case of Dr. Ali Shaygan, the South Florida physician who was charged with...
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Eleventh Circuit Holds Drug Trafficking Not an “Offense Against the Law of...
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10 of the U.S. Constitution–or the “Offenses Clause”–empowers Congress “To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law...
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