Like kids counting the days until Christmas, attorneys, legal scholars, and jurisprudence junkies, including me, eagerly anticipate the first Monday in October, the day the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) begins its new term each year. We can barely control ourselves as we wait for the justices to decide which of the 7,000 cases submitted to them annually become one of the 150 or so they hear. Under normal circumstances, the justices go about their work in relative obscurity Read More
Due Process
In his most recent MahoningMatters column, BKH managing partner David Betras, one of the area's leading criminal defense attorneys, discusses prosecutorial misconduct and the threat overzealous prosecutors pose to every American's freedom... Prosecutors in the United States wield awesome power and have access to immense resources that dwarf what is available to criminal defendants and defense counsel. The lawyers who represent the people of the United States or the people of Florida have Read More