CITIZEN TO CONVICT AND BACK AGAIN (Navigating a Lengthy Incarceration)

He stared me down with emotionless eyes.  The rancid smell from his underarms hit me before his words:  “If the new charges stick, they wanna give me the death penalty.  I can take one more with me.”  I held my ground in the prison’s TV room, but I knew he meant what he said.  Prisons are dirty, dangerous, distressing human warehouses. //Read More

15 THINGS TO KNOW IF YOU END UP IN PRISON (part 2)

5.    HOPE FOR AN EARLY RELEASE; BUT DON’T COUNT ON IT

There are many post-conviction legal remedies:  Appeals, 2255 motions, and 2241 motions, to name but a few.  The time within which to file and the //Read More

15 THINGS TO KNOW IF YOU END UP IN PRISON (part 1)

Are you heading to prison?  Imagine being locked into a 7’ X 10’ cell alone, or worse yet, with a farting, stinking, snoring bunky.  Picture a prison guard, half your age with less than half your education, ordering you to hold your genitals up so he can inspect for contraband.  Read on… //Read More

10,000-FOOT VIEW OF A LEGAL HAIBALL

Ten DEA agents surrounded my DJ booth, weapons drawn, shouting like madmen.  Just moments before, the beats on all three turntables were in synchrony for the whirling dervishes on the dance floor at World nightclub in Santa Monica, California. //Read More