Leon Friedman

July 05, 2018 | National Law Journal

Even if a solidly conservative Justice is confirmed to the High Court, Democrats aren't powerless against the rollbacks of progressive policies.

By Leon Friedman

1 minute read

March 07, 2016 | National Law Journal

OPINION: Look past the debate over when to nominate a justice, and you'll see a very different future.

By Leon Friedman

5 minute read

July 23, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

A look at why juries are so unsympathetic to the insanity defense.

By Leon Friedman

6 minute read

July 23, 2015 | New Jersey Law Journal

A look at why juries are so unsympathetic to the insanity defense.

By Leon Friedman

6 minute read

July 17, 2015 | Law.com

The jury in the James Eagan Holmes murder case in Colorado on Thursday rejected his insanity defense, finding him guilty of first-degree murder after he killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Why are juries so unsympathetic to the insanity defense? Why do they reject extensive expert opinion by renowned psychiatrists or psychologists that a defendant is psychotic and therefore insane?

By Leon Friedman

6 minute read

July 16, 2015 | National Law Journal

The jury in the James Eagan Holmes murder case in Colorado on Thursday rejected his insanity defense, finding him guilty of first-degree murder after he killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Why are juries so unsympathetic to the insanity defense? Why do they reject extensive expert opinion by renowned psychiatrists or psychologists that a defendant is psychotic and therefore insane?

By Leon Friedman

6 minute read

May 30, 2014 | New Jersey Law Journal

The attorneys who represented Rubin "Hurricane" Carter reflect on his legacy.

By Myron Beldock, Leon Friedman and Lewis M. Steel

5 minute read

May 16, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

We were the lawyers for former middleweight boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and John Artis during the many years they fought against their unconstitutional convictions in the New Jersey courts for murder. They were falsely accused and twice convicted of killing three white people in a Paterson bar in 1966.

By Myron Beldock, Leon Friedman, Lewis M. Steel

5 minute read

April 28, 2014 | National Law Journal

A wrongfully convicted boxer relentlessly fought against flawed prosecutions.

By Myron Beldock, Leon Friedman and Lewis M. Steel

5 minute read

July 11, 2011 | National Law Journal

Judge J. Waites Waring's opinion 60 years ago in 'Briggs v. Elliott' led directly to 'Brown v. Board of Education.'

By Leon Friedman and Richard Mark Gergel

6 minute read