Criminal Law

New Hampshire Legislation
In the Nashua Telegraph, Kevin Landrigan reports, "Taxpayers could be out $2m for capital cases." Two pending murder trials, where prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, will cost at least $2 million ? and much more if either one is...

Life after death: a verdict in the first post-abolition but formerly capital trial in Jersey
When New Jersey abolished the death penalty in late 2007 there were a fair number of cases lined up for trial in that state’s version of the death belt. Today, in the first of those trials to reach verdict, a jury convicted James Vaughn...

"Boss Hog"
The Georgia capital punishment system continues to be haunted by the way way less than adequate representation many on death row received at their trials. Inadequate Defense Counsel at Trial, and Lack of Defense Counsel for State Habeas Corpus Proceedings are the first two "Problem Areas" listed in the Executive Summary of the ABA's Death Penalty Assessment Report for Georgia, published in...

death row realism II
Jack Payden-Travers of the ACLU?s Capital Punishment Project notes in the Pasadena Star-News: In Maryland, the Urban Institute study of March 2008 noted that it costs the state three times more to try a death penalty case than a non-death penalty case...

Petition Preview: Enya, the Death Penalty, and Video Victim Impact Evidence
Nearly two decades ago, in Payne v. Tennessee (1991), the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment did not bar the introduction of ?victim impact evidence? at the penalty phase of capital trials...

News Links
You may have noticed that I'm not posting links to newspapers and television coverage of hearings in capital cases as often as I used to. I have decided to stop providing links to these stories (except in rare occasions)...

Military Veterans Benefits
How to obtain full range of benefits for veterans and dependnets

Pacific Capital Bancorp 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
Pacific Capital Bancorp 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Kohlberg Capital Corporation 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
Kohlberg Capital Corporation 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Morgan Stanley Capital
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Wrongful Death
alleging death was caused by the conduct of negligent defendant.

Taser Death
allegedly directly causing or leading to complications resulting in death.

Frank Bluestein, The Maximum Financial Group, Inc., Questar Capital Corporation, and Gunnallen Financial, Inc.
alleging schemed investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.