Former NOPD Officer Sentenced to Three Years in Danziger Bridge Case
A former NOPD officer who pled guilty to covering up some of the facts surrounding the shootings of civilians on
A former NOPD officer who pled guilty to covering up some of the facts surrounding the shootings of civilians on
GO FALCONS! A.C. Flora High School in Columbia, South Carolina (my alma mater) was ranked by Newsweek Magazine as one
The story of JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater has garnered quite a bit of attention in the last week. And
A (hopefully) humorous take on criminal defense for minor violations given at the February 2010 “Ignite NOLA” Conference. Five minutes, twenty slides. What are you passionate about?
If you spend much time (like I do) looking at the types of offenses most people are arrested and taken to Orleans Parish Prison for on an average night, you will notice one thing above all others – most of them probably shouldn’t be in jail.
Maybe I was just missing what everyone else was seeing, or maybe the story just wasn’t that strong, but up
IgniteNOLA is part of the Ignite Series which started in 2006 by Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis. The objective is
So, I guess the title of this post is a little misleading. Not because this isn’t about getting arrested at
First off, the best advice I can give anyone is this: DON’T TALK TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. You will not be
Watching Treme on HBO, like everyone here in New Orleans, I am prone to look for what is true New Orleans, and what is not. And being a criminal defense attorney (and one who was back working during the fall of 2005) I tend to be more critical of those parts of the show portraying the criminal justice system…and there are many. So I am going to throw my hat in the ring with the many Treme critics, but only insofar as my thoughts on the accuracy of the show’s depiction of crime and criminal justice after the storm.
Well, I didn’t make the 2009 list of top lawyers in New Orleans, but it looks like someone thinks I