Atlanta Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog

All lawyers need to keep up with their reading, and criminal defense attorneys are no different.  I’ve been plowing through recent federal criminal cases, and came across three (not from the Atlanta area) that deal with the financial aspects of a federal criminal sentence.  Each sort of reminds me of the Ojay’s song, “For the…

Casual readers (those in Bermuda shorts included) know that I am a criminal defense lawyer in Atlanta who specializes in federal cases.  Some readers even know about “discovery” in a federal criminal case.  These readers know about Rule 16 from the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the constitutional principles underlying the long-standing “Brady rule“.…

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’m working on a case with a very talented Atlanta-based criminal defense lawyer.  Our clients were accused of and later convicted for fraud involving several businesses.  These are a somewhat different type of white collar offense, for some of the crimes are what we call “securities fraud”, meaning fraudulent conduct relating to the offering or…

Readers know that I am a criminal defense lawyer in Atlanta who handles lots of federal cases. Most folks also know that various prosecutors employ full-time press officers who put together a “press release” every time that something happens that the prosecutor hopes to see published.  And most of us are so inundated and overwhelmed…

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…

To those who may not often read these missives or do not know me, I am a criminal defense lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia who specializes in federal criminal defense and criminal appeals.  This is me:  Many people who do this kind of work find themselves representing clients who look at the criminal case differently than…

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…