Los Angeles, CA-- Due process and our dubious criminal justice system is really not doing well.   Exonerations are on the rise as exhaustive post conviction investigations expose police, crime lab or prosecutorial misconduct.  It takes decades to expose wrongful convictions as these victims rot in our prisons.  This is not about reducing the penalties that criminals deserve.  This is about pure and simple justice and fairness.   Prosecutors have been given excessive powers in recent years that they nearly always abuse.  Juries almost never hear about the checkered backgrounds of witnesses and so-called victims.  The backgrounds of the accused however are nearly always disclosed.   We routinely convict people in circumstantial cases where the jury guesses guilt or innocence.   If a jury has to guess, that should dictate an acquittal but that’s just not how it works.   I have worked with the best and worst la...

Chicago, IL --Amazing how a lawyer can be disbarred for simply fighting for justice in Chicago's Courtrooms.  Despite no allegations of theft, dishonesty or fraud Joel Brodsky faces possible disbarment.  In the meantime the Illinois State Bar Association will destroy Brodsky's clients with a questionable interim suspension. All I have to say is, WOW!   Sit back and watch what my investigation uncovered about Brodsky's case.

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I had to return to Chicago for an investigation of tragic proportions.  Needless to say my camera came along for some of the sights and sounds of The Windy City.

William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman Mossimo Giannulli and Lori Loughlin Los Angeles, CA —I spent the afternoon in the courtroom of Federal Magistrate, Alexander MacKinnon .     He arraigned and set bail for a handful of accused that had already been indicted on Conspiracy and Racketeering charges   The vast majority of the 31 people were only brought before the court for an Initial Appearance on Complaints.  That’s the first step in the process.  Those brought in on complaints have a bit of wiggle room to save themselves.  At this point there are some 50 people caught up in this very novel prosecution.  Prosecutors allege that the ringleader, Rick Singer ran a consulting company that facilitated fixing ACT and SAT scores with the use of a ringer by the name of  Mark Riddell who took these tests for the applicants.   Prosecutors also said that Singer proceeded to bribe various schoo...