Criminal Appeals from the Federal Public Defender’s Perspective | Matthew Wright | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Criminal Appeals from the DA’s Perspective | Andrew Warthen | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Extraordinary Writs in Criminal Cases | Michael Falkenberg | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Court of Appeals Reversals from a Criminal Perspective | Jim Huggler | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
From the Trial Bench to the Court of Criminal Appeals | Judge Bert Richardson | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Stare Decisis and Advocacy in the Court of Criminal Appeals | Judge David Newell | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Appellate Practice Perspectives: Criminal Defense | Naomi Howard | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Sometimes you fall headlong into a chorus you thought you knew by heart—only to discover the bridge is where all the action is. For appellate practitioners, that action seems to be happening more and more in orders issued by...more
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Bastias v. US Att’y Gen - immigration - Casa Express v. Venezuela - judgment execution, ancillary jurisdiction - Saadi v. Maroun - judgment execution, fraudulent transfers...more
Each year, Take the Fifth blog compiles and analyzes key statistics from the opinions issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. While the Fifth Circuit itself compiles and releases statistics on a...more
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Bridges v. Poe - § 1983, prison abuse - USA v. Martinez - smuggling, ivory, evidence, obstruction of justice ...more
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - USA v. Dorelus - sentencing - Burt v. UF Pres - en banc order, vacating this opinion; appellate jurisdiction...more
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Ivory v. USA - postconviction relief - Gould v. Interface - employment, agreement, preservation of error - Devengoechea v. Bolivian Repub - Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act,...more
Third Circuit Holds Smartphones Qualify as Computers for Sentencing Enhancement- The defendant was convicted of, among other things, possessing child pornography, on the basis of images found to be on his smartphone. The...more
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Watkins v. Davis - § 1983, qualified immunity - USA v. Leahy - race-based intimidation, constitutional challenge, instructions - USA v. Schmitz -search and seizure - ...more
In a recent alert, we highlighted the United Kingdom (UK) benchmark manipulation cases of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo from 2015 and 2019, respectively. Hayes was the first banker to be jailed in the LIBOR scandal....more
In a strident judgment that expresses “concerns about the effectiveness of the criminal appeal system in England and Wales in confronting legal error”, the UK Supreme Court has unanimously allowed appeals by Tom Hayes and...more
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Smith v. Odom - False Claims Act, standard, public disclosure - Fla Ag Comm’r v. US Att’y Gen - Second Amendment, firearms, medical marijuana - ...more
Welcome to another monthly roundup of notable Fifth Circuit Criminal and White Collar-related case updates. July was a relatively quiet month for published criminal decisions, with the Court issuing just three new decisions,...more
“After a one-day trial in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, a jury found Craig Donnell Johnson guilty of robbery. Before trial, Mr. Johnson had filed a motion to dismiss the case, arguing that the State had withheld...more
In United States v. Mims, No. 22-13215, 2025 WL 1934570 (11th Cir., July 15, 2025), the Eleventh Circuit addressed a relatively straightforward question of first impression: “whether a district court continues to have...more
On July 31, 2025, a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued an opinion vacating the wire fraud and money laundering convictions of a former manager of a marketplace for non-fungible...more
On March 10, US District Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York issued a decision in United States v. Tavberidze, holding that section 3E1.1(b) of the US Sentencing Guidelines, which provides a one-point...more
A recent blog post advocating using Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) to “automate” criminal appeals instead raises the concern that common flaws in contemporary judicial decision-making will only get worse if we cede legal...more
Civil lawyers love written notices of appeal. Have you ever heard a civil attorney say, “I wish I could orally notice an appeal”? Me neither. But the criminal trial bar overwhelmingly give oral notices of appeal in state...more
The North Carolina Court of Appeals entered the Bruen Second Amendment debate this week with its decision in State v. Radomski. First, a bit of background: In its landmark New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen...more
MoFo recently assisted APPEAL, a UK charity and law practice dedicated to fighting miscarriages of justice, in helping to overturn Andrew Malkinson’s wrongful conviction for rape, for which he spent over 17 years in prison....more
If you need to appeal the outcome of a federal criminal case, you need to know that you are making informed decisions. Filing an appeal in the appropriate U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is one of the last opportunities to...more
If you need to appeal the outcome of your federal criminal case, you have lots of factors to consider. While there are a variety of grounds for pursuing appeals, not all grounds are available in all cases; and, even if you...more
Getting convicted for a federal crime in district court is not a situation that defendants want to find themselves in. However, the conviction or the sentence that it leads to do not have to be the end of your case. You have...more
The right to criminal defense counsel is a cornerstone of our justice system. This is particularly true in federal courts, where the stakes in criminal trials are very high. One of the ways we meet this constitutional...more
In Texas, district attorneys’ offices appear as counsel in the courts of appeals more than almost any other litigant. Beyond simply appealing or defending appeals, district attorneys have unique responsibilities as...more