- Good Lawyers Are Persistent, and Continuous Arguments Result in Supreme Court Victory
- Federal Criminal Sentencing Hearings: Constitution Mandates That Judge Use Older Version of Sentencing Guidelines if it Helps the Defendant
- Criminal Law Case in the Supreme Court Says That Police Can Take DNA when Person is Merely Arrested for Serious Crime
- 227 Feet Inside a Federal Boundary Line: Making a Federal Case Turns a Life Sentence into a Death Penalty
- Criminal Cases and Cell Phones: Another Court Confronts How the 18th Century Fourth Amendment Works With Modern Technology
- Federal Criminal Charges Against Public Officials: U.S. Attorney Announces Indictment Naming State Legislator
- Federal Criminal Cases and Discretion: the Recent Furor Over IRS Targeting Politically Conservative "Non-Profits"
- Prosecutors Must Play Fair: Are We Any Better Off on the 50th Anniversary of the Brady Decision?
- Supreme Court Approves Amendments to Federal Rules: Practitioners Need to Keep Up with the Changes
- Florida Development Relating to Modern Technology and the Fourth Amendment: Police Cannot Browse Through Your Smartphone in Sunshine State Without a Search Warrant
- Supreme Court Accepts Case to Decide What it Means When "Death Results" From Drug Dealing
- Federal Court in Atlanta Overturns Fraud Sentence: the Importance of Good Lawyering at the Sentencing Hearing
- Supreme Court Limits Deportation When Client Merely Possessed Small Amount of Marijuana
- Supreme Court Says Police Need Search Warrant to Perform Blood Test on Suspected Drunk Driver
- Public Corruption Cases in Federal Court: New York Arrests Show the Feds Keep Using "Honest Services" Fraud to Go After Politicians
- Supreme Court Says Dog Sniff on Porch of Private Residence is a Search that Requires a Warrant
- "You Have the Right to Counsel, But We Are Going to Take Away Any Money You Have to Hire the Type of Lawyers Who Specialize in Federal Cases": Contrasting Gideon v. Wainwright With Federal Pretrial Forfeiture Laws
- Federal Criminal Defense Difficult when Government Freezes Client's Assets: Supreme Court Finally Agrees to Hear Case About Whether Prosecutors can Obtain Pretrial Restraint of Assets Without a Hearing
- Divided Atlanta Federal Appeals Court Upholds Florida Mail Fraud and Bribery Conviction: the Latest Saga in the "Honest Services" Debate
- Appeal of Federal Insider Trading Convictions: Defendants Say They are Not Guilty and the Sentences Were Too Long
- Sentencing for Federal Health Care Fraud Offenses: Court of Appeals Nixes Probation Even Though Doctor paid Full Restitution and Performed Almost 400 Hours Community Service
- Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions: U.S. Supreme Court rules Padilla Not Retroactive
- Hiring a Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer: What Every Potential Client Should Know (and Ask)
- Atlanta Federal Criminal Child Pornography Cases: Part of a National Trend
- The Fourth Amendment in the Modern Age: Supreme Court Looks at DNA Samples Taken From Everybody Who Gets Arrested
- Bankers Get Indicted: New Crimes still require Old Approaches
- Federal Criminal Convictions Reversed Even When Lawyers Failed to Make Argument: No One Bothered to Look at Whether the Defendant's Actions Were "Contrary to Law"
- Doctor and Pharmacist Prosecuted in Federal Court for Over-Prescribing Pain Pills: Eleventh Circuit Affirms Convictions
- Federal Crimes on Airplanes: Flying is not as fun anymore
- U.S. Supreme Court says that Double Jeopardy Clause prevents retrial when trial judge erroneously granted acquittal at Defendant's first trial
- Supreme Court decision in federal criminal case: Court sides with Defendant and says that police cannot search person who left scene prior to execution of search warrant
- Going to the Dogs: Supremes Says Lack of Performance Records for Drug-Dog Doesn't Invalidate Search
- Federal Appellate Court Restricts Federal Mail Fraud Statute
- Guns and voting: Restoration of civil right to vote not enough to get around federal ban on possession gun after felony conviction
- BP Settles Federal Criminal Case and Attorney for Rig Worker Accuses Government of Indicting a Scapegoat
- Federal Court of Appeals in Atlanta Rules that Law Allowing U.S. Prosecution of International Drug Dealers is Unconstitutional
- D.E.A's Position on Controlled Substances is Inconsistent (and Unfair)
- Good lawyering results in federal criminal case going to Supreme Court: Will the Apprendi decision be extended to sentencing factors that change mandatory minimum punishments?
- A crime long ago and far away: the Supreme Court confronts issues surrounding which side has the burden of proving "withdrawal" from a criminal conspiracy
- Going to the Dogs-Part 2: Supreme Court to Decide if Pooch Sniff on Porch is a Fourth Amendment "Search"
- Going to the Dogs: the upcoming Supreme Court case of Florida v. Harris
- New Term in the United States Supreme Court: Cases of Interest
- Judge Beverly Martin to Speak at Criminal Law Luncheon Here in Atlanta
- Whaddya Know? Eleventh Circuit Affirms One and Reverses Other Gun Conviction Based on Different Amounts of "Knowledge" Required
- Responding to a Grand Jury Subpoena Without a Lawyer: Always a Bad Idea
- Government Recycles Risk of Danger Argument To Convince Congress To Reject Enactment of Fairness in Disclosure of Evidence Act; Congress Should not be Misled (Again)!
- Justin Anand Sworn in as Federal Magistrate Judge; Federal Defender Program Celebrates Nearly 40 Years of Great Lawyering
- Confrontation Clause Debacle: Supreme Court Muddies the Water by Ruling that Report on Which Expert Relied Need Not Be Admitted or Subject to Cross-Examination
- Constructive Possession: Court of Appeals Won't Reverse Even When Trial Judge Gave Bad Instructions to Jury
- Eyewitness Identification: Eleventh Circuit Won't Join Most Courts that Allow Expert Testimony Showing Unreliability of Such Witnesses
- Federal Antitrust Investigations and Prosecutions of Real Estate Foreclosure Auctions
- First Federal Criminal Case for Selling Prescription Adderall: Our Client Won't go to Jail;
- Collateral Estoppel: the "Little Brother" to the Double Jeopardy Clause
- Eleventh Circuit Reverses County Attorney's Federal Mail Fraud and Money Laundering Convictions: Material Variance Unduly Prejudiced the Defendant
- Supreme Court Unanimously Holds that Placing GPS Tracking Device on Automobile Without a Valid Warrant is a Fourth Amendment "Search"
- Eleventh Circuit Reverses Physician's Conviction in Federal Health Care Fraud and Overprescribing Case
- US Supreme Court sides with Alabama death row inmate: lawyer's missed mail should not prevent client from raising challenges
- APPEALS COURT IN ATLANTA REVERSES TAX CASE: FEDERAL JUDGES PROHIBITED FROM PARTICIPATING IN PLEA DISCUSSIONS
- Court of Appeals affirms part of case involving plan to smuggle potential baseball players into the U.S. from Cuba
- Court of Appeals Affirms Life Sentences for Pain Management Physician (and Creates Circuit Split)
- Overzealous prosecution of doctor: divided court of appeals reverses the Hyde Act attorneys fees and sanctions against the prosecutors in the sad case of Dr. Ali Shaygan
- Federal Sentencing Law in the Eleventh Circuit: United States Sentencing Commission Issues Summary of Decisions To Assist Federal Practitioners
- Restitution in Federal Criminal Cases: Prove it or Lose it
- Eleventh Circuit Affirms Former Birmingham Mayor's Federal Conviction But Doubts About the Constitutionality of the Honest Services Statute Remain
- Chronic Pain, Federal Criminal Law, and the Prosecution of Pain Management Doctors in Federal Court
- Eleventh Circuit Reverses Federal Conviction of Pain Management Doctor
- Federal Court of Appeals fails to grant new trial when "possibly innocent man" gets life sentence based on "preposterously unreliable testimony of sole witness"
- Forfeiture of $1.7 million for crime involving $22,000: Court of Appeals says this is not "disproportionate"
- Supreme Court Expands (Again) Good Faith Exception to the Exclusionary Rule
- Atlanta-based Federal Court of Appeals Reverses Obstruction Conviction Because No Evidence Defendant Aware of the Proceeding He Supposedly Obstructed
- 11th Circuit Affirms Most But Not All Convictions in Siegelman/Scrushy
- Federal Criminal Sentencing Seminar and Transparency in Federal Sentencing
- Federal Criminal Rules Should Require Prosecutors To Turn Over Witness Lists
- Another loss for the Confrontation Clause: the Supreme Court's decision in Michigan v. Bryant
- Federal Criminal Defendants Continue to Win in Supreme Court Cases Involving the Sentencing Guidelines
- Eleventh Circuit Holds That Even Though Federal Sentencing Guidelines Are Advisory, Applying A Harsher Guideline That Was Not in Effect At the Time Of The Crime Can Create Ex Post Facto Concerns
- Alabama Mail Fraud Convictions Reversed by Court of Appeals sitting in Atlanta
- Diaz: Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Holds Government May Medicate Federal Criminal Defendant Involuntarily to Render Him Competent to Stand Trial
- Gowdy: Eleventh Circuit Affirms Conviction for Escape Where Defendant Was Released From Custody and Failed to Turn Himself Back In
- Kottwitz Revisited: Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Vacates Criminal Conviction upon Rehearing, Holding That Jury Should Have Heard Instruction on Reliance on the Advice of an Accountant
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines Amendments Part VII: Temporary, Emergency Amendment Pursuant to Fair Sentencing Act of 2010
- Goyal Concurring Opinion: Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Opines on Federal Prosecutors Overreaching by Stretching Criminal Law Beyond its Proper Bounds
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines Amendments Part VI: Remediation Efforts and Reporting Obligations for Effective Compliance and Ethics Programs of Organizations
- Williams: Eleventh Circuit Holds That Defendant Who Testified to His Innocence at Trial Should Have Received Sentencing Enhancement for Obstruction of Justice and No Reduction for Acceptance of Responsibility
- FEDERAL JUDGE IN ALABAMA GRANTS LAWYER’S REQUEST TO DELAY TRIAL IN LIGHT OF AUBURN’S PARTICIPATION IN BCS TITLE GAME
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines Amendments Part V: Hate Crimes
- Forey-Quintero: Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Holds Defendant Could Be Prosecuted for Being in the US Because His Mother’s Status Did Not Make Him a Derivative Citizen
- Pepper: United States Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments Next Week Regarding Consideration of Rehabilitation upon Resentencing
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines Amendments Part IV: Recency
- Childers: Eleventh Circuit Will Decide En Banc Whether Exclusion of Evidence on Cross-Examination Denied Defendant Sixth Amendment Rights
- Federal Judge Admonishes Prosecutors for Inviting “Public Ridicule and Scorn” on the Justice System with “Mean-Spirited” Sentencing Memorandum
- Abbott: Supreme Court Unanimously Holds § 924(c) “Except” Clause Applies Only to Greater Minimum Sentences Otherwise Provided for the Same Conduct Prohibited by § 924(c)
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines Amendments Part III: Cultural Assimilation
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines Amendments Part II: Relevance of Specific Offender Characteristics
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines Amendments Part I: Alternatives to Incarceration
- Davis: United States Supreme Court Will Hear Case Arising Out of the Eleventh Circuit Regarding the Good Faith Exception to the Exclusionary Rule in Criminal Cases
- Grober and Irey: New Developments in the Child Pornography Sentencing Guidelines Battle
- Mateos: An Eleventh Circuit Reminder to Criminal Defense Lawyers to Brush Up on the Rules of Evidence
- Kentucky v. King: U.S. Supreme Court Will Look at Exigent Circumstances Exception to Constitution's Requirement for a Search Warrant
- Ranier: Eleventh Circuit Departs From Recent ACCA Cases and Holds That Prior Conviction for Third Degree Felony Burglary in Alabama Qualifies as ACCA Predicate Violent Felony if Conviction was Based on Generic Elements
- Di Pietro: Federal Court of Appeals in Eleventh Circuit Upholds Criminal Conviction for Arranging Marriages Between Illegal Immigrants and U.S. Citizens
- Kottwitz: Eleventh Circuit Holds Trial Court Should Have Given Good Faith Defense Jury Instruction
- Villarreal: Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Speedy Trial Claim Where Ten Years Elapsed Between Indictment and Arrest
- U.S. v. Belfast: Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Holds That § 924(c) May Apply to Crimes of Violence Committed Outside United States Territory
- U.S. v. Irey: Divided En Banc Eleventh Circuit Holds Criminal Child Pornography Sentence Substantively Unreasonable And Remands for Sentencing at Statutory Maximum
- Federal Sentencing Disparity Between Crack and Powder Cocaine Reduced
- Cunningham: Eleventh Circuit Joins Other Courts of Appeals in Holding That Alleged Violations of Supervised Release Do Not Implicate Jury Trial and Evidentiary Standards as Applied by Apprendi and Blakely
- Garcia-Cordero: Eleventh Circuit Holds “Bring and Present” Requirement of Federal Immigration Law Does Not Violate Criminal Defendant’s Privilege Against Self-Incrimination
- Skilling: Supreme Court Limits Federal Criminal Honest Services Fraud Law to Bribery and Kickbacks
- Change of Law in the Eleventh Circuit: Supreme Court Holds That a Sentencing Court May Order Restitution Even After Missing 90-Day Deadline
- DOJ Implements New Federal Mortgage Fraud Initiative; Prosecutors Here in Atlanta Announce Commitment to be “Key Participants” in Program
- Breaking News: Supreme Court Limits Honest Services Fraud to Bribery and Kickback Schemes; Holds Skilling Was Not Denied Fair Trial
- Gilbert: Eleventh Circuit Corrects “Complete Miscarriage of Justice” in Federal Criminal Sentencing Under Career Offender Enhancement
- Holland: Supreme Court Reverses Eleventh Circuit, Holding That Its Standard for Equitable Tolling of the Federal Habeas Corpus Statute’s Timeliness Provision is Too Rigid
- Eleventh Circuit Reverses Judge Martin’s District Court Decision that a 30-Year Mandatory Minimum Sentence was Cruel and Unusual Punishment
- Barber v. Thomas: Supreme Court Holds That Bureau of Prisons Has Been Correctly Calculating Good Time Credits on Federal Criminal Sentences
- New Holder Memo: Emphasizing “Individualized Assessment” in Federal Criminal Prosecutions
- Berghuis v. Thompkins: U.S. Supreme Court Holds That One Must Speak to Invoke the Right to Remain Silent
- Lall: Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Holds Confession Involuntary In Federal Criminal Case in Which State Police Had Told Defendant He Wouldn’t Be Charged
- Carr: Federal Supreme Court Holds That Liability under 18 U.S.C. § 2250 Cannot Be Predicated on Pre-SORNA Travel
- Frazier: Eleventh Circuit Rejects Polk Argument, Holding that Falsifying Identity of Firearms Purchaser is a Violation of § 922(a)(6) Even If Actual Buyer May Lawfully Purchase Firearms
- Ghertler: Eleventh Circuit Holds Abuse of Trust Federal Sentencing Enhancement Does Not Apply Where Criminal Defendant Impersonated a Trusted Person
- Supreme Court Opinions Issued This Morning in Graham v. Florida, U.S. v. Comstock, and Abbott v. Abbott
- Phaknikone: Eleventh Circuit Holds Myspace Profile Photographs Inadmissible Character Evidence, but Harmless Error
- Dean: Eleventh Circuit Holds in SORNA Retroactivity Case that the Attorney General Properly Invoked the Good Cause Exception to the Notice and Comment Procedures Required by the APA
- Stevens: 8-1 Supreme Court Decision Holds Criminal Statute Unconstitutionally Overbroad and Invalid under the First Amendment
- Lee: Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Conviction for Attempt to Entice a Minor Even Though All Communications Were With “Parent” of Fictitious Minors and Defendant Never Made Arrangements to Meet Minors
- USSC Issues Press Release Regarding Amendments to Federal Sentencing Guidelines
- Recency Criminal History Points to be Deleted from Federal Sentencing Guidelines
- Fowler: Miniscule Evidence Needed to Show Federal Nexus when Murder Prosecuted under Statute Intended to Punish Federal Witness Tampering
- Upcoming Federal Eleventh Circuit Criminal Decision: Is Sholam Weiss Entitled to Resentencing Following His Extradition from Austria?
- Berghuis v. Smith: Supreme Court Unanimously Reverses Jury-Diversity-Based Habeas Case in Favor of Government
- Padilla v. Kentucky: Sixth Amendment Effective Assistance of Counsel Requires Criminal Defense Lawyers to Advise Clients When Pleas Carry a Risk of Deportation
- Sneed: Eleventh Circuit Holds Sentencing Courts May Not Rely on Police Reports to Determine whether Prior Crimes Were Committed on Different Occasions for ACCA Purposes
- Long-Term Difficulties Faced By Innocent Federal Criminal Defendants, Even After Acquittal
- Health Care Fraud Provisions in Federal Bill Passed Last Night
- 11th Circuit Rules That Fraud Victims Cannot Climb To The Top Of The Pile And Get More Back Than Other Victims
- Eleventh Circuit Holds No Expectation of Privacy in Delivered Email Messages
- Harrington v. Richter: Cert Granted in AEDPA Ineffective Counsel Case
- Bloate: Supreme Court Holds Time Granted to Criminal Defendants to Prepare Pretrial Motions is Not Automatically Excludable under Speedy Trial Act
- Supreme Court Criminal Case: Police May Reinterrogate a Suspect Two Weeks After He Requests a Lawyer, Even if He Remains in Prison, Lawyerless
- Upcoming Changes in the Supreme Court?
- Phillips: A Crack Reduction is a Sentence Under Rule 35
- Oral Arguments in Third Circuit Electronic Privacy Case – Should the DOJ Need a Warrant to Obtain Location Data from Cell Phones?
- Eleventh Circuit: Both Defendant and Federal Prosecutors Entitled to Notice and Opportunity to Respond when Court Intends to Rely on New Information in Modification of a Criminal Sentence
- Eleventh Circuit Discussion of Loss and Restitution in Sentencing for Federal Crimes
- Briscoe v. Virginia: Federal Supreme Court Upholds Recent Opinion Regarding Testimony By Forensic Analysts in Criminal Trials
- Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in § 924(c) Cases Regarding Mandatory Minimums in Federal Criminal Firearms Cases
- Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Avoids Rule of Specialty in Federal Criminal Extradition Case… Again
- DOJ Appoints National Coordinator of Criminal Discovery Initiatives
- Georgia Innocence Project Exonerates Another Wrongfully Convicted Man
- Prosecutorial Misconduct -- Federal Criminal Stock-Option Backdating Cases
- Supreme Court Update: Honest Services Fraud Cases
- Ben Kuehne Celebrates Dismissal with a Party and You Are Invited!
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines Amendments Part IV: Drug Crimes
- Georgia Criminal Defense Lawyer Acquitted of Money Laundering, Drug Conspiracy, and Attempted Bribery
- Eleventh Circuit Remands Livesay for Resentencing… Again
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines Amendments Part III: Alternative Sanctions to Prison
- Eleventh Circuit Holds Crime of Eluding a Police Officer at High Speed or with Wanton Disregard for Safety is a Crime of Violence in the Same Category as Burglary and Arson
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines Amendments Part II: Economic Crimes
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines Amendments Part I: Sex Crimes
- Eleventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Money Laundering Charges Against Attorney
- Eleventh Circuit Holds “Walkaway” Escape is Not a Violent Felony under Federal Armed Career Criminal Act
- Supreme Court Will Hear Another Miranda Case: Where Criminal Defendant Neither Waived Nor Invoked Rights, Is Further Interrogation Proper?
- Skilling Added to the Mix of Honest Services Fraud Cases to Be Heard by the Supreme Court
- Money Laundering Charge Against Criminal Defense Attorney Argued in Federal Appellate Court
- Eleventh Circuit Takes Government’s Side in Federal Criminal Circuit Split Regarding Section 924(c)
- Federal Judges Testify That Criminal Sentences for Possession of Child Pornography May Be Too Long
- Federal Appeal Regarding Funds Needed to Hire Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Double Jeopardy: Eleventh Circuit Decides Second Federal Criminal Indictment for Same Offenses Must Be Dismissed
- Federal Circuit Court in Atlanta Vacates Criminal Identity Theft Conviction
- Federal Supreme Court Will Hear Argument on Federal Criminal Constitutional Law, Affecting Law Here in Atlanta, Georgia
- The Effect of the Pressure to Cooperate by Federal Prosecutors on White-Collar Criminal Defendants
- Federal House Subcommittee on Crime holds Hearing on Federal Criminal Law
- Federal Court of Appeals Limits Calculation of Criminal Insider-Trading Gain for Sentencing Purposes
- Banishment: Exile Permitted Under Current Georgia and Federal Criminal Law
- Prison Reimbursement in the Georgia and Federal Criminal Justice Systems
- Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Raises Issue of Standing to Skirt the Rule of Specialty in Federal Criminal Extradition Case
- New Federal Criminal Law Targets Internet Drug Sales
- Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Argument on Federal Criminal Honest Services Fraud
- Supreme Court Establishes New Federal Rule Regarding Criminal Forensic Lab Reports
- Supreme Court Finds No Federal Constitutional Due Process Right to Access to DNA Evidence in Criminal Cases After Conviction
- Federal Supreme Court Decides Criminal Collateral Estoppel Issue
- Black Requests Bail Pending a Decision on Federal Honest Services Fraud Case
- Federal Drug Case Decided by Supreme Court in Favor of Criminal Defense, Rationality
- Federal Criminal “Honest Services” Fraud Law Applicable Here in Atlanta to be Reviewed by Supreme Court
- Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 Expands Fraud and Money Laundering Statutes
- Criminal Defendants Lose Another Protection of Federal Constitutional Rights
- Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta Issues Heads-Government-Wins, Tails-Defendant-Loses Decision in Federal Criminal Case
- Supreme Court Decision in Federal Identity Theft Case Overrules Eleventh Circuit Precedent, Changing Criminal Law Here in Atlanta
- Supreme Court Ends Its Streak Protecting Rights With Georgia Federal Criminal Case
- Supreme Court Agrees to Resolve Circuit Split Regarding Speedy Trial Act in Federal Criminal Cases
- Federal Case May Impact Suppression of Evidence Resulting from Criminal Seizures of Computers in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama
- Finally! Federal Supreme Court Limits Criminal Search Rule
- Divided Supreme Court Protects Federal Criminal Rule
- Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta Affirms Tax Fraud Conviction
- Former Detention Officer at Fulton County Jail in Atlanta Arrested on Federal Criminal Charges
- Federal Criminal Mortgage Fraud Cases on the Rise
- Atlanta Criminal Case: U.S. Attorney Decides Not to Initiate Federal Prosecution of Brian Nichols
- Another Miscarriage of Criminal Justice in Atlanta: The Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals Renews our Tenacity in Fighting for Rights
- Scientific Report Should Impact Federal Criminal Cases
- Federal Bureau of Investigation Raids Georgia Peanut Plant
- Farias-Gonzalez: Another Atlanta Federal Criminal Case We Hope Gets Reversed by the Supreme Court
- Federal Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia Overrules 1996 Brown Decision Regarding Criminal Fraud Statute
- Federal Criminal Sentences May Be Enhanced by Acquitted Conduct
- United States Supreme Court Affirms Eleventh Circuit Federal Criminal Case
- United States Supreme Court Limits Definition of “Violent Felony” under Federal Armed Career Criminal Act
- Two Counts Thrown Out in Federal Criminal Case Against Former Georgia Judge
- Atlanta Criminal Case: Fulton County D.A. has asked United States Attorneys to Charge Brian Nichols in Federal Court
- Court of Appeals Hears Arguments In Federal Case Involving Alabama's Former Governor
- Supreme Court Agrees to Review Eleventh Circuit Sentencing Decision in Federal Criminal Case
- Prosecutors Unhappy in Federal White Collar Cases: Supreme Court to Decide Whether There Can Be Second Trial for Defendant When First Jury Acquitted But Hung on Some Counts
- White Collar Crime Prosecutions: Why do some cases simply wither away?
- Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Federal Criminal Case Involving Identity Theft Statute
- Crime in the Federal Courts: When Investigators Scrutinize the Judges for Potential Criminal Activity
- Federal Criminal Cases: Prior Convictions Can Really Hurt
- Government Urges Supreme Court To Resolve Circuit Split Over Federal Identity Fraud Statute
- Federal Judge in Atlanta Declares Mandatory Minimum Portion of Federal Statute Unconstitutional
- Atlanta Federal Criminal Case: Can Police Search a Spouse's Computer?
- Federal Criminal Attorneys Submit Briefs In Important Federal Criminal Appeal
- Lawyers in Federal Court; Major Case Affirms Right to Have Company Pay Legal Fees for Employees
- Sentencing Issues for Federal White Collar Crime Cases
- Federal Criminal Cases: Some Prisoners Have Email Access
- Court of Appeals Issues Interesting Ruling In Federal Criminal Case
- Reversal of Conviction in Federal Criminal Case: Lawyers need to Keep Fighting!
- Court of Appeals Identifies The Issues In Federal Criminal Appeal
- Sentencing First Offenders in Federal Court: Is the Tide Finally Turning?
- Federal Prosecutors Trying to Seize Assets: the Details are Important!
- Recent Developments in the Federal Criminal Case of Alabama's Former Governor and Richard Scrushy
- Has a Federal Criminal Prosecutor Prosecuted Innocent People?
- Atlanta Money Laundering Prosecution: Federal Prosecutors Ordered to Explain Charges
- Eleventh Circuit Vacates Opinion in Federal Criminal Fraud Case
- United States Supreme Court Rules that Federal Court of Appeals Cannot Increase Sentence on its own Initiative
- Crafty federal investigators get help from the courts: suspects must remember to keep their mouths shut
- Federal Court of Appeals Affirms Sentences in Theft of Trade Secret Case
- Sentences for Federal Drug Crimes: Why Does the U.S. lead the World in Prison Sentences?
- Federal White Collar Fraud Conviction Reversed on Appeal: Pattern Jury Instruction on Fraud Held to be Deficient
- Creative Lawyering in Atlanta, Georgia: The Deal for "T.I." in Federal Court
- Federal Appellate Court in Atlanta Issues Ruling Concerning an Individual's Right to an Attorney
- Federal Criminal Sentence of Probation Affirmed on Appeal in Case from Atlanta, Georgia
- Federal Criminal Charges Dismissed in Atlanta Against Doctor: Be Careful What you Say on an Airplane
- Winning Strategies Seminar Held for Federal Criminal Lawyers
- Federal Criminal Sentences in Georgia, Florida & Alabama
- Criminal Defense Lawyers in Atlanta: What Can We Learn from the Brian Nichols case?
- Practicing federal criminal law in Atlanta: sometimes it gets a little weird
- Federal Firearms Offenses: Speech in Birmingham, Alabama
- Federal Judge's Ruling Provides Some Hope For Individuals Detained On Internet-Based Sex Charges
- Perfect Storm in federal prosecution: taxes, publicity and race in the Wesley Snipes case
- Federal Court of Appeals Affirms Sentence Reductions in Federal Criminal Case
- Appellate review of federal criminal sentences: Let the Battle Begin!
- Crack Cocaine sentences to be reduced
- Federal Crack Cocaine sentences: will the unfairness ever end?
- Federal Crimes: Can Prosecutors Use Similar Act Evidence?
- Eleventh Circuit Affirms 360 Month Sentence in a Federal Mortgage Fraud Case
- Federal Criminal Trials: More thoughts on whether the Defendant should testify
- Federal Criminal Trials: should a defendant take the witness stand?
- Federal criminal appeals; reversal of Alabama conviction for environmental crimes
- Drug Crimes in federal court and young people: how to avoid having a stupid mistake become the defining moment in a young person's life
- Federal Prosecutor's Apparent Suicide Highlights the Stress Associated with the Defense of Internet-Based Federal Charges
- Criminal defense in Atlanta: Can rapper T.I. get a bond?
- Search and Seizure in Atlanta, Georgia argued in the Federal Court of Appeals
- White Collar Criminal Defense in Atlanta, Georgia: fighting against appeals by the government in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit when defendant gets probation
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