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Impact: After the Crash is a new documentary out now examining the 1988 Carrollton bus crash, which is the drunk driving accident in US history. Our own Russ Baldani was one of the attorneys who represented the defendant at his trial and was interviewed for the movie. Below you’ll find a trailer for the movie,

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On February 19, 1964, Edward Coolidge was arrested in New Hampshire for the shooting murder of Pamela Mason. Coolidge was a well-liked former high school football star, and Mason was a teenage babysitter. It was a brutal crime that rocked the sleepy New Hampshire town of Manchester. All indications were that Coolidge, however, was responsible

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Last week the Department of Justice signaled that President Obama would begin to take seriously his ability to grant clemency to prisoners by announcing new guidelines for clemency applications (and encouraging those who meet the clemency guidelines to apply. Such a move by President Obama would be a marked departure from his traditionally stingy approach

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There has been a great deal of talk lately about the need to reform mandatory minimum sentences, particularly for low-level, non-violent drug offenders. Among the most significant potential reforms that are now on the table is the Smarter Sentencing Act. Attorney General Eric Holder recently voiced his support of the SSA, and in so doing

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A study of drug dogs has confirmed what we in the criminal defense bar have known for a long time — that drug dogs are the equivalent of dowsing rods for drugs. Or, in the words of Auburn University prof Lawrence Myers, a “search warrant on a leash.” Of course, if you’ve ever been the

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