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The Best Defense: When defendants think they know more than the lawyers.
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Matters Affecting Criminal Defense Lawyers and their Clients. Tuesday, October 12, 2004. When defendants think they know more than the lawyers. They were all told to go with their police uniforms, and would accompany a federal task force agent who would tell any one who intervened that they were assisting the feds in a drug operative. Of the 11 or 12 original targets of the investigation, each was asked to recruit more officers for different deliveries, and told that they had to be different. Officers fo...
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The Best Defense: November 2004
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Matters Affecting Criminal Defense Lawyers and their Clients. Thursday, November 11, 2004. I have no good answers for you as to John Heart. Yesterday was the oral argument before the First Circuit of one of my former clients. Let's call him John Heart for now. I was about the fourth attorney John had. The first, a New Jersey attorney, ended up disbarred not too long after making his pro hac vice. Did John have a chance of being acquitted? Initially, John was being offered a plea for 25 years, which he ha...
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The Best Defense: "The 3 Offers Rule"
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Matters Affecting Criminal Defense Lawyers and their Clients. Monday, September 13, 2004. The 3 Offers Rule". See post at Macondo Law. About "But I still have 2 more offers" and other trends. Which is a good example of the difficulty in getting some clients to comprehend how plea bargaining even works. And, believe me, I always try to have them understand. View my complete profile. Other Blogs I Author. Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. TrialPrep - a PRACDL Blog. District of Puerto Rico.
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The Best Defense: When Snitches are just Cooperating rather than Snitching
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Matters Affecting Criminal Defense Lawyers and their Clients. Tuesday, September 21, 2004. When Snitches are just Cooperating rather than Snitching. The term "snitch" never applies to one's client who -for whatever reasons- decided to cooperate. It is reserved for those who are shafting your client by helping the government. We go to battle against them presuming them to be liars, and we certainly try to show juries they are prevaricators of the worst kind and for the worst motives. Other Blogs I Author.
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The Best Defense: Penny-wise Pound-foolish on CJA Voucher Approvals
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Matters Affecting Criminal Defense Lawyers and their Clients. Monday, September 13, 2004. Penny-wise Pound-foolish on CJA Voucher Approvals. Explaining to him that, yes, even though he was acquitted of the murder charges in a previous local case before the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico courts, the feds are now alleging that he committed said murder in furtherance of the instant drug trafficking conspiracy and that they can present all of the evidence in the instant case, even though (at least pre- Blakely.
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The Best Defense: October 2004
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Matters Affecting Criminal Defense Lawyers and their Clients. Friday, October 29, 2004. I have set up a few Google alerts for such things as Blakely, mandatory minimum sentence, and the like. Here's one I received today:. FBI: Man arrested at eatery had mouth full of heroin. Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA. Assistant US Attorney David Jennings said at a hearing in US District Court that Jaquez faces a mandatory. Of 10 years and as much as life in . Tuesday, October 12, 2004.
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Purple States....: 04/11/2004 - 04/18/2004
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The Daily Musings of a Fools Fool. Way to Go, Cuba. Oliver Stone gets a good chuckle out of torture and authoritarianism. In an interview for Slate. Ann Louise Bardach grills Stone on his time with Castro and his film. Read the transcript and you won’t believe what’s said. Here’s the most shocking part:. OS: I love that. I thought that was hilarious. Those guys just popped up. ALB: Is there a show-trial element here? In other Cuba news, Oxblog. After the United Nations Commission on Human Rights narrowly...
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Macondo Law: Lou Gehrig's Speech on July 4th, 1939 and my friend Jorge L. Arroyo Alejandro
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Saturday, July 04, 2009. Lou Gehrigs Speech on July 4th, 1939 and my friend Jorge L. Arroyo Alejandro. On July 4, 1939, Lou Gehrig reminded the world that even though he'd had a bad break, he had an awful lot to be thankful for. Watch a tribute to the Iron Horse which reminds us this Independence Day of all we have to be thankful for in our lives. Posted by Tom Lincoln. Macondo Law Atom Site Feed. Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer; Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL affiliate) Chart...
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Macondo Law: The story of a CJA Voucher
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Saturday, October 08, 2011. The story of a CJA Voucher. Frustrated" is not an accurate description for my feelings about the length of time it has taken to have a CJA Voucher processed and paid. Yes, the and paid. Page at the District Court's website indicated my voucher had been "processed for payment.". You would think that is tantamount to telling me that the check is in the mail, but it isn't. The "processed for payment" entry means they have taken some. Posted by Tom Lincoln. Federal Criminal Defens...
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Macondo Law: How Far can the Power of Eminent Domain Reach
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Saturday, September 25, 2004. How Far can the Power of Eminent Domain Reach. The words of the U.S. Constitution are clear:. 8220;…nor shall private property be taken for public use. Without just compensation.” U.S. Constitution, Amendment V. Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports here. On some of the 40 cases in which the Court has granted certiorari this term. One of them caught my eye, and it is not. But the issue is much bigger than the fate of one house on the Thames - businesses, developers and homeowne...
