Case Story : Aim High

Military crim­i­nal defense attor­neys con­tacted me to aide in the defense of a US ser­vice­man who was charged with com­mit­ting a drive-by shoot­ing. I reviewed the case mate­r­ial, and said I didn’t think I would be able to help much, because the evi­dence I needed to exam­ine had been destroyed when the gov­ern­ment was collecting

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10 Way to Kill Your Own Expert

The fol­low­ing arti­cle was orig­i­nally posted in the American Bar Association October Newsletter. There is a LOT of truth to these points:

Ten ways lawyers kill their own experts

Businessman chop­ping down another busi­ness­man.  Expert wit­nesses can make or break a case, but many lawyers inad­ver­tently destroy their experts’ cred­i­bil­ity. In the tele­con­fer­ence “Ten Ways That Attorneys

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Air Rifle Homicide

A crim­i­nal defense attor­ney asked me to look into a homi­cide a few months ago that involved an air rifle as the mur­der weapon.

The state con­tended that the defen­dant shot the vic­tim in an apart­ment, put their body into a car, and torched it. Then hid/disposed of the air rifle.

The defense the­ory of the case was

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