I’ve been waiting to see signs of this and, after seeing airline security alert levels raised today, the stories are starting to emerge. Here’s a story about a technology that uses video cameras to scan luggage for suspicious items by monitoring the electromagnetic energy given off by different objects. So explosives can be theoretically be […]

I just finished posting the note about the lawyer in Olympia that got slapped by his client during jury selection when someone brought to my attention news that a defendant in Boston tried to strangle his lawyer in trial. Is this catching or what?
Read about it here.
RP

I know this has nothing to do with technology in the courtroom, but I thought it was good for a laugh anyway. Defense lawyers are used to getting slapped around in court by judges, cops and prosecutors. But … by their clients? Larry Jefferson was still picking a jury for his client Justin Jacobson when […]

Hard to believe, but a few dozen law enforcement officials from five Florida counties packed a committee room as a show of opposition to a bill that would require them to record custodial interrogations. The bill (HB 681) would require interrogations to be recorded as a prerequisite to admissibility. Their reason? They claim it’s the […]

With Wolf Blitzer’s “Situation Room” making Blogging a regular feature in its coverage, I thought it would be appropriate to start referring to equally appropriate CNN coverage of blogging topics. In that connection, a quick note: CNN’s “Reasonable Doubt” series will be focusing this weekend on the impact of forensics on criminal cases. The […]

You might have heard the story about the oral argument before the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. After Sarah Weddington had concluded her winning argument, Jay Floyd, speaking for the State of Texas, attempted a rather tactless joke about having to follow two pretty females, and how he was guaranteed not to get the […]

I recently attended the 12th Annual Criminal Justice Institute in Seattle, a two-day State Bar Conference covering the latest trends and caselaw relevant to the practice of Criminal Law. One of the more interesting presentations was given by a Prosecutor who commented on a big Identity Theft case she lost. Like all good criminal lawyers, […]