Criminal Justice Reform – 2020 Style
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND STATE OF MARYLAND * v * CASE No: CT 95-1837A DEMETRIEUS…
Category: Criminal Justice
Judge halves 100-year sentence for 1995 murder by juvenile
A retired judge on Wednesday cut in half the 100-year sentence he gave a defendant 23 years ago, partially granting…
LAWYER’S LAWYER, BOB ZARBIN, TAKEN FAR TOO SOON
On Saturday evening, July 8, 2017, Robert Julian Zarbin, Esquire, Age 56, passed away far too soon. He was President…
IS POLITICS CORRUPT? STAY TUNED TO YOUR SUPREME COURT STATION!
Good news! The Supreme Court of the United States has finally agreed to define the term “corruption.” That term has…
Criminal Justice System Reform
The most valuable lesson that I learned as a result of being lucky enough to have been appointed and elected…
Judge Steven I. Platt’s (Ret.) 5 Step Grand Jury Reform Plan
Two recent grand jury decisions involving the police killings of unarmed black men have sparked protests and demonstrations across the…
Crime and Punishment in Maryland
As Governor-Elect Hogan and the Lt. Governor-Elect Rutherford ramp up their Transition Team operations with a goal of having “the…
The Grand Jury: Old Habits , New Truths
The Ferguson, Missouri community along with the rest of the country anxiously awaits the apparently imminent decision of the St….
A 21st Century Criminal Justice System
In my last column, I hope that I left readers to at least agree that Maryland’s Criminal Justice System needs…
The Time For a Criminal Justice System Futures Commission Is Now
Almost a quarter of a century ago in his “State of the Judiciary Address” to the 1990 Session of the…