The Plea Bargaining Blog

I am pleased to announce that registration is now open for the upcoming ABA Criminal Justice Section conference regarding " White Collar Crime and Regulatory Trends in the European Union and U.S. "  The conference will occur in Amsterdam, Netherlands from May 15-16, 2014.  The first day will include a number of panel discussions examining important issues in the field. This conference will bring together a cadre of international experts to examine the most current, pressing, and difficult issues in the European Union and United States regarding this rapidly changing field. The panelists, emanating from numerous countries around the world, will address topics including: corporate espionage and cyber-crime; global internal investigations; securities laws and accompanying whistleblower programs; anti-corruption enforcement; money laundering and sanctions violations; and trends in enforcement and compliance. This conference seeks to offer invaluable insights regarding white...

I was recently interviewed by the Houston Chronicle regarding the case of Corey Anthony Love. It's more than likely that Corey Anthony Love has no earthly idea he has been found innocent of the crime to which he pleaded guilty seven years ago and for which he spent 105 days in state jail... Love was one of 87 listed in the annual report of the National Register of Exonerations, a joint project of the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. Texas led the nation with 13 exonerations. His case was hardly the stuff of headlines and outrage. He did not spend decades in prison as an innocent man. He wasn't railroaded by an unscrupulous prosecutor or condemned to a life of hell by mistaken identity or shoddy forensic work. His was a minor drug offense. He pleaded guilty to the crime. He served relatively little time behind bars. But to the authors of the report, what makes Love's case, and the other six ...