by Beth Karas | Aug 29, 2016 | The Death of Jonathan Crews |
The death of Jonathan Crews, a healthy 27-year-old man, by a single gunshot wound to his chest is a mystery, or is it? The only witness to Crews’s death on February 2, 2014 was his girlfriend, Brenda Lazaro, a woman he dated for only a few months. In fact,...
by Beth Karas | Aug 27, 2016 | News |
I can’t recall if we’ve discussed in detail the Nick Hillary case in upstate New York but I have the Sepember 6, 2016 trial date noted on the KOC calendar. The New York Times wrote a great article last March that I recommend if you’re interested in...
by Beth Karas | Aug 19, 2016 | News |
An Ohio woman will be back on trial Monday, charged with murdering her husband of eight months on New Year’s Eve 2014. Colleen McKernan, 28, shot her husband, Rob, 10 times in their home in Stark County, Ohio. She says she killed him in self-defense. The...
by Beth Karas | Aug 15, 2016 | News |
Last Friday, I posted a blog about high profile defendants challenging the effectiveness of their counsel’s representation at trial. Sometimes it’s a winning argument; most often it’s not. At the end of the day on Friday, another high profile case...
by Beth Karas | Aug 12, 2016 | News |
It’s not unusual for a defendant to appeal a conviction after trial. Appellate counsel will scour the record for possible errors at the trial made by the judge, the prosecution, or the defense. A common claim on appeal is that the trial counsel for the defense...
