legal issues

It turns out that 'believe the victims' a term that should have been left in the dustbin back in the 'Satanic Panic' era has not only reared it's head again, but had the usual unexpected consequences, a rash of unsafe trials...

The getaway driver in a home invasion was arrested for felony murder. Her three accomplices were killed by a resident of the home they invaded. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/28/oklahoma-home-invasion-shooting-suspected-getaway-driver-arrested.html The shooter has not been arrested, yet...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/charged-with-stealing-ex-deputy-says-he-cant-remember-anything-from-the-last-14-years/2015/10/29/ce46c80e-7c10-11e5-b575-d8dcfedb4ea1_story.html How convenient for him.

There is a lot of discussion of and interest in crime here and not a little confusion about criminal law so I thought I would put that right for anyone interested. I am an English solicitor with about ten years' criminal practise under my belt (long time ago) mostly small potatoes but with the...

Guy is shot in a house, staggers to a gas station and falls over. Laying dying, he tells the cop who shot him and where, then he dies. The issue: Can that statement be admitted as evidence during the murder trial, given the guy is dead and thus cannot be cross-examined. Ruling: Yes Court...

A few people on this forum have legal knowledge. I am lodging an appeal at work (it isn't going to court, so I don't need/can't afford a lawyer's services yet), and need some advice on how to argue a few issues. I'd like it to be as water-tight as possible, in a legal sense, in case it has to go...