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Protecting Corporate Employees: The Need for a New Bill of Rights
  by John F. Lauro April 17, 2006

Over the last several years there has been a dramatic change in the practice of white collar criminal defense. The highly publicized corporate scandals involving Enron, WorldCom, and others, and the federal government's reaction to those events have resulted in an enormous shift of power away from protecting corporate employees' rights.

After the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and the Justice Department's issuance of the so-called Thompson Memorandum, the focus has been on enhancing the power of big government and protecting the existence of big corporations. continue...


Pick Your Battles: Direct Appeals and Post-Conviction Proceedings
  by Gus M. Centrone June, 2007

In criminal cases, appellate counsel must carefully consider the proper procedural form in which to raise potential arguments.

In Florida criminal appeals, claims raised and rejected on direct appeal or claims that should have been, but were not raised on direct appeal are barred. They cannot later be asserted in a motion for post-conviction relief brought under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. However, not every colorable argument should be raised for the first time on direct appeal. continue...