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One of my all-time least favorite questions to be asked in a consult is an invitation to comment on another civilian practitioner. In my mind, that is a topic for a candid conversation to be having ...
Read moreCalls for consultation often ask me their chances for conviction or acquittal. Mind you, this is with no investigation for review, not having interviewed one witness, and based solely on about a ...
Read moreCallers on consultations ask whether they will be charged at all; they also ask about the chances or the odds or for percentages. Each of these concerns comes from a place of anxiety because they ...
Read moreWhen a caller on an initial consultation asks me whether his military counsel will be enough, that says a lot about his confidence level. If he’s asking the question, it tends to reason he is ...
Read moreThe number of consultations I take ebbs and flows with my current case load. I remember that was one of the hardest balances to achieve when I started in private practice was determining the right ...
Read moreSome wounds don’t heal. Not really. They may scab over, they may scar, but inevitably they resurface. Some wounds just don’t heal. Among them is deep loss. Not so long ago, I was reminded of the ...
Read moreI cannot possibly count the number of potential military clients who call me after feeling like they have been railroaded. By their detailed military defense counsel. Yep. I said what I said. I ...
Read moreInnocent until proven guilty. Right. Sure. Not so much. I keep waiting for someone to give me a reasonable and logically sound justification for why the press is free to print the name of a ...
Read moreFor the past few years, the pretrial orders in the judicial circuit where I practice the majority of my cases has required a pretrial status conference between the government and the defense counsel. ...
Read moreA friend reminded me recently that even though not everyone can afford my full representation, there are plenty of people who still need and value my time. I think a lot about time and spend a great ...
Read moreSince the first case in the USMC that I tried as a civilian defense counsel, I had to accept that there was a seeming (hopefully) rebuttable presumption that civilian defense attorneys were unethical ...
Read moreDetails Matter for Military Justice I finished up a trial convinced the prosecutors don’t bother to listen to the alleged victim’s videotaped interview. Ever. They rely instead on the summary in ...
Read moreTwo attorneys separately approached me to ask whether I had any wisdom about how to achieve work-life balance. My reply was, partly in gest, “what balance?” I could tell they were earnest in ...
Read moreBad news. Nobody likes hearing it, and getting some about yourself is never good. But delivering bad news—especially to someone you care about—might be even worse. In the military, ...
Read moreSince 2008 when I was a part of the busiest Army Trial Defense Counsel offices in the world at Fort Hood, Texas, I began to understand the problems of the military justice system. The system’s goal ...
Read moreBecause of the absence of mandatory minimums in the military system for punishing sexual assault and rape do not exist, you can see a very vast and a very different level of punishment from one ...
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