That is what many Dutch people asked me as I visited the Netherlands this month, including my taxi driver to the Schniphol Airport. Although I didn’t know exactly what the "goings on" he was referring to were, I said a lot is going on in America. When...
“I am angry that we live in a world where two disabled boys can have their lives stolen from them, where cops can lie and intimidate with impunity, where innocent people can be condemned to die and where injustice is so difficult to bring to...
My criminal law practice isn’t dwindling when it comes to representing individuals who have mental health and developmental disabilities. And, the same goes for my criminal defense colleagues who frequently ask where they can get their clients with mental health disabilities help. I am consistently...
July 19, 2014 Denver, Colorado The letter arrived in the mailbox of an Aurora movie theater shooting survivor half a year after the attack. In its six paragraphs of carefully, sympathetically written prose, a woman offered to help the survivor communicate with defense attorneys representing the gunman: questions,...
We all know that Darren Rainey, a severely mentally ill person, should not have been detained in a law enforcement environment. We are all ashamed that we live in a society that would lock this 50-year-old man in a shower for an hour for punishment...