Drug Convictions and Federal Student Aid

Drug cases can lead to issues with federal student aid when the accused person is a college student. This question comes up more often than you might think, as most students have some knowledge or awareness that catching a drug charge might negatively impact their...

Kentucky’s New Drug Laws

A new law in Kentucky made headlines on March 25th, with some newspapers calling it “a cultural shift.” Comments on message boards suggested the new law was misguided, and that it actually created crime, rather than effectively addressing it. What was this new law?...

Violence, via Althusser and the State

I have written previously on violence, both in its symbolic form (e.g. graffiti) and in its literal form (i.e. the death penalty.) Part of what interests me about violence is that I encounter extreme forms of it on a regular basis through my work as a criminal defense...