Category: Criminal Defense

Anthony Rupp isn’t going to get rich off the case. Buffalo police officer Todd McAlister isn’t going to go broke. How Rupp’s lawyers will get paid would be anybody’s guess, but for the fact that Tony Rupp happens to be the founder of the law firm, Rupp Pfalzgraf, and, well, doesn’t have to take it. […]

Officers in Fillmore County believe they finally have the situation sorted out after they say a woman switched places with her twin sister after striking an Amish buggy in September, killing two children and injuring two others. Although neither of the twin sisters have been officially taken into custody, criminal charges were filed in Fillmore […]

Back during the days of Fault Lines, my mean-ass editor tasked me weekly with compiling a post called the “Friday Fail.” It was a short post detailing what I thought were the biggest criminal justice failures of the week. We let readers vote on what they considered the worst in an informal poll for audience […]

Two women released from prison last week may be the first inmates in Minnesota to see their sentences reduced under the new legislation that redefines the crime of aiding and abetting felony murder. Megan Cater and Briana Martinson were charged and eventually pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting in the murder of Corey Elder in […]

It’s a truism in law that a right without a remedy is worthless. It’s cool to say “you have a right to speak,” but if you’re precluded from speaking, whether because of cancellation, disruption or pressure of being shunned, it’s an empty right. The American Bar Association, flexing the one power that it oddly still […]

If you’re concerned that an action you’ve taken may be construed as bribery, you should be asking if you can go to jail or prison for a bribery offense. The daunting answer is yes, as demonstrated by the sentencing of a former top aide to former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. According to ABC affiliate KTRK […]

Chapter 794, “Sexual Battery,” under Title XLVI of Florida law, details all the rules related to statutory rape. In general, these laws make sexual relationships between individuals of certain ages illegal, even if it involves consensual sexual activity. This is still considered statutory rape because the state says some minors are too young to legally […]