A 2022 front-yard fight in Baltimore left one man dead and another on trial for murder. The ensuing case and appeal have broken important new ground in Maryland law, clearly recognizing for the first time that a substantial battery on a close relative may constitute the sort of necessary provocation…
An old Chinese proverb says that a “journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” A successful defense against criminal charges can be like that. The monumental final destination of acquittal (or reversal of a conviction) involves hundreds or thousands of discrete tiny steps. Make sure that that…
35 years ago, the TV movie The Burning Bed brought spousal abuse and domestic violence into the front of the public consciousness. The famous Farrah Fawcett film and a 1980 book of the same name were based on a 1970s case where a Michigan woman doused a bed in gasoline…