Month: May 2015

There are many things that you can leave to chance in this world but let’s face it, your appeal is not one of them. When you lose your court case and suffer a conviction or judgment against you, it has a way of ruining your life, or at least making things very difficult for you […]

There has been a philosophical debate in the criminal justice system for nearly as long as a system has existed. At a basic level we understand that a crime is only committed when a person has the required intent to commit a crime. For example, it is not possible for one to commit arson while […]

There is an old and arguably misguided belief that if you go to court, and if you are innocent, then you have nothing to worry about. This, however, is further from the truth than most people realize. In both civil and criminal cases, there are those who have found themselves the victims of faulty judgments […]