Articles Posted in Federal criminal defense

My criminal defense office is in Atlanta, but as a lawyer my clients are from various parts around the country.  Readers of this blog know that the majority of my clients face federal criminal charges.  One long-standing client recently died, it was very sad, he was in his late 50’s and is survived by his…

I just finished the Atlanta federal criminal securities fraud case that I have been working on for the past three and a half years.  After a two-day sentencing hearing, my client was given a sentence of 10 years in custody, along with being required to pay back around $1.4 million dollars to some investors. The…

Sentencing Hearings are one of the things I handle often as a criminal defense lawyer here in Atlanta and other parts of the country.  I also write occasionally about how the press and criminal cases intersect, and the increasing abdication by the press when they simply re-print whatever “press release” gets issued by some prosecutor’s…

I love it, a perfect example of the intersection between modern technology and federal criminal cases!   A United States District Court in Kansas recently threw out, by granting a Motion to Suppress, a federal criminal case in which the Defendant was charged with carrying drugs in the vehicle he was driving.  The police officer…

Late last week the United States’s Attorney’s Office here in Atlanta, Georgia announced an indictment alleging a federal criminal prosecution relating to the massive data breach  at Equifax. The government alleges that an “insider” at the company  traded on confidential information concerning the breach, selling stock ahead of the public announcement. This is the sort…

When do we ever really “know” something is a question often asked in the many federal criminal cases I handle here in Atlanta, throughout Georgia and around the country.  Most criminal cases require that the prosecutor prove that the Defendant “knew” something.  The issue might be whether the Defendant “knew” that a package contained drugs,…

After a reorganizational delay, Paul Kish is back blogging about federal criminal defense issues, here in Atlanta and elsewhere (such as D.C. where the Mueller investigation is more like a Full-Employment Act for lawyers like me who specialize in white collar criminal defense).  To those unfortunately twisted folks out there who actually read my musings,…

My law partner Carl and I represent lots of people who are charged with federal crimes, both here in Atlanta and throughout the country.  Each of us recently had cases where we believed that our clients were innocent.  In each case, we also each faced federal prosecutors who aggressively went after our clients.  All charges…