In 2014, Samuel Little, a 74-year-old man, was insistent that he was innocent after being convicted for the murder of three women. Currently serving a life sentence, he has also
A new attitude seems to be emerging about drug crimes. First, the city of New York stopped prosecuting small marijuana crimes, in line with much of the rest of the
Facing criminal charges involves making difficult choices. Namely, whether to accept the known parameters of a plea deal or to gamble on the unknown consequences of the trial. A good
In Les Miserables, Jean Val Jean serves twenty years hard labor as punishment for stealing a “mouthful of bread”. His sister’s child was close to death, they were starving…yet despite
Author : The Blanch Law Firm August 2, 2018 Everyone has been buzzing lately with the news of Supreme Court Justice Kennedy’s impending departure, and the nominee to replace him. But what
Author: The Blanch Law Firm July 4, 2018 There has been lots of chatter in the news lately about pardons – who can receive them, who should (or shouldn’t) be
Whenever anyone says ‘Witness Protection Program,’ the frame of reference (for me at last) always goes to Goodfellas. For all the movies created about people in the witness protection program,
It seems like prosecutors across the country are becoming increasingly tolerant to low-level drug possession, particularly marijuana, in spite of the reversal of the Department of Justice on enforcing the
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