Category: Criminal Appeals

Woman Stabs Boyfriend 25 Times With Heel of Stiletto If you search for the phrase odd murder weapons online, you will find stories of homicides that have been committed with many different, and yes, odd objects. From spatulas to icicles, to an Xbox360 and a bowling ball, people seem to use whatever is at their […]

New Sentencing Hearings for Close to 100 Illinois Convicts The Illinois Supreme Court decided on March 20, 2014 that inmates that are currently serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for homicides they committed as minors will now be granted new sentencing hearings. There are currently about 100 convicts that will receive a chance […]

Massachusetts Court Ruling on Upskirt Photos The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has overruled a lower court’s decision to arrest and prosecute a man for taking photos up women’s skirts and dresses. In 2010, Michael Robertson was arrested in a sting after transit police had received reports that while riding the subway in Boston, he […]

Fort Hood, Texas Sees More Loss and Devastation It has not even been five years since the terrifying mass shooting that took 13 lives in Fort Hood, Texas. Yet the headlines read all the same on April 2, 2014: another shooting spree with multiple fatalities. On April 2, 2014, Sergeant Ivan Lopez was in a […]

Brownstone Law, an appellate attorney who specializes in post-conviction appeals at our firm, Brownstone Law, was mentioned in a recent article  posted on the Riverfront Time, a news outlet in St. Louis, Missouri. Brownstone Law was hired by Cornealious Michael Anderson, a client who was sentenced to thirteen years in prison for a conviction of […]