An update on an earlier post about the sad case of Todd Cameron Willingham, executed by Texas in 2004 for a crime experts now say he did not commit. Four of the nation’s top arson investigators were asked to independently review the evidence used to convict Willingham of the alleged arson that resulted in the […]

Just a follow-up on the last post regarding the challenges facing Chris Herion in his “Donations” (read “Bribery”) case below. After Herion filed a motion to recuse the entire Benton County bench from presiding over any hearings in the case, he got into a nasty on-the-record argument with the judge. The judge threatened Herion with […]

It’s hard to believe that this story, getting attention across the nation, is happening in my backyard. I first heard about it when Attorney Chris Herion (pictured above) posted a rather lengthy message on a local listserve describing the whole ordeal he encountered in the course of representing clients charged with DUIs. What he discovered […]

In what can only be described as the height of prosecutorial arrogance, Federal prosecutors in Washington state decided that their right to seize the assets of suspected drug dealers reaches right into the mouths of the accused. Flenard T. Neal Jr. and Donald Jamar Lewis were awaiting trial and hadn’t been convicted of any offense […]

I just got an unbelievable email. It was an urgent request from the Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers to join a letter writing campaign to the Washington State Bar Association urging the Board of Governors to file an amicus brief in a case currently before the State Supreme Court. If you can believe this, […]