I had lunch with my good friends Anna and Andy today. We were attending a yearly seminar for criminal defense attorneys in the French Quarter, and had taken a walk together to get some lunch. […]

New Orleans Criminal Court

The judges of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court pleaded with the the New Orleans City Council on Monday to spare the court’s budget from a proposed 31 percent cut. The budget proposed by Mayor Mitch […]

Photo by the Colorado Marijuana Initiative

After Tuesday’s election, marijuana is now legal in Washington and Colorado.  Penalties for adults over the age of 21 possessing up to an ounce of marijuana have been eliminated, […]

What costs 70 billion dollars a year, and is generally regarded as an abject failure? Answer: our criminal justice system. In the last 20 years, the incarceration rate in this country has quadrupled, but the crime problem […]

A Monday Night Football game in New Orleans between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New Orleans Saints offers plenty of opportunity for certain people to run into trouble with the law. Arrests for DUI, drug […]