Criminal Defense

Frontline PBS recently released Democracy on Trial, a special documentary examining the origins and key evidence in the upcoming trials against former President Donald Trump.  BWO Partner Ken White features prominently throughout the documentary. Ken is a leading criminal defense attorney and First Amendment expert, who...

California’s mental health diversion statute, Penal Code section 1001.36, has been on the books since 2018.  But there is no published case nor any secondary source addressing its applicability to a white-collar defendant.  While a number of firms have blog posts about mental health diversion,...

Here on the Brown White & Osborn LLP Blog, we’ve covered many of the emergency steps that different branches of government have taken to address the COVID-19 pandemic.  In several jurisdictions, authorities have extended the statute of limitations within which prosecutors must file criminal charges on the theory that...

Brown White & Osborn LLP partner Ken White wrote several columns, and appeared on several news programs, based on his expertise with federal criminal law in the past week:   "Three Remarkable Things About Michael Cohen's Plea," November 29, 2018 in The Atlantic. "Why Did Manafort...