Attorney General Eric Holder gave a speech giving credit to defenders on the 50th Anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright. This was the landmark case that ruled that state courts under the Fourteenth Amendment must provide counsel to defendants of criminal cases who are unable to afford attorneys on their own. The case began from a 1961 burglary…
An appellate rule requires “extraordinary” circumstances to sentence outside of guidelines range. While the 11th Circuit has never found reason to deny an upward variance sentence, they have on occasion found downward variance sentences to be unreasonable. In this case the appellant plead guilty to a five year health care fraud scheme of $3 million.…
Attorney General Eric Holder gave a speech giving crIncome tax refund thefts are on the rise along with identity theft that it often starts with. In Miami recently, two police officers have been arrested for corruption and fraud as they used the state driver’s license database to gain information on 1000 identities and then file bogus…