Having spent a majority of my life as a criminal defense attorney, one of the questions I get asked frequently is how to get a criminal charge removed from your record.

New Orleans is a popular tourist destination around the holidays, and this time of year I get lots of phone calls and emails about advice about how to handle what for many is an inevitable brush with the law. In that spirit, I have compiled a list of my top 5 things everyone should know about how to deal with a New Year’s Eve or Sugar Bowl arrest.

New Orleans Municipal Court is where people charged with minor misdemeanor offenses in New Orleans will have their cases heard. Your case will be allotted to Municipal Court either because you have been […]

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A recent report from the American Civil Liberties Union  found that at least 3,278 people are serving sentences of life without parole for non-violent crimes. Around […]

A new report from the Stanford University Criminal Justice Center examines the response of stakeholders in the California criminal justice system to the state’s now two-year-old prison realignment program. [Full text of the […]