Courtrooms & Crime Fiction: Chik-Fil-A, Core Unknowns, and the Presumption of Guilt
Other people, good decisions, Chik-Fil-A....
A Meditation On Independence Day
Treasure liberty....
Roger Stone, the Perp Walk, and Shame’s Role in White-Collar Cases
The recent arrest of Trump confidant Roger Stone highlights the issue of “perp walks,” when arrested defendants are displayed for the media. Lightfoot, Franklin &...
“Fantastic Lies” and Corporate Criminal Prosecution
When the past is dug up in documentaries (or docudramas), events are often sensationalized. This practice is of long pedigree: Shakespeare was not above amping...
The Five Best Ways for Your Client’s Employees to Get Indicted
The nice folks at the Birmingham Bar Association (and white-collar criminal defense lawyer Steve Shaw in particular) invited me to deliver a lunchtime CLE on a white-collar...
White-Collar Felon Registries, Hester Prynne and The Drive-By Truckers
Although one must admire the historicist sensibilities of a state legislature that just reinstated the firing squad as a methodology for execution, the Utah legislature’s passage...
Why Innocent People Plead Guilty: Judge Rakoff, Eddie Coyle, Albert Camus and Sweet Dreams of Oppression
If they give awards for “Best White-Collar Article of The Year,” I wish to nominate one. And it’s not even, strictly speaking, an article only...