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856.861.4236 Bryan Kohberger Wants To Take Back His Guilty Plea: A Former Prosecutor On Why Post-Conviction Relief Almost Never Works August 4, 2026
By David Gelman | Cherry Hill Criminal Defense Lawyer and Former Burlington County Prosecutor Bryan Kohberger already admitted to murdering four University of Idaho students, and he is already serving four life sentences for it. Now, from his cell at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, he says he wants it all undone. In a phone interview with The New York Times, Kohberger claimed he is innocent and was misled into confessing, insisting his guilty plea “MUST be withdrawn.” That request runs straight into one of the…
read more David Gelman On The Lindsay Clancy Trial: When Does Mental Illness Mean Someone Is Not Criminally Responsible? August 3, 2026
By The Criminal Defense Team At Gelman Law, LLC If you have followed the Lindsay Clancy trial, you already know how hard these cases are to watch. A Massachusetts mother admits she killed her three young children in 2023, yet her lawyers argue she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis and could not understand what she was doing. Cases like this raise a question that comes up more often than most people realize, including here in New Jersey: when does a serious mental illness mean a person is not criminally responsible for what happened? If you are trying to…
read more David Gelman On Fox Across America: Why Do I Have No Doubt Todd Blanche Will Be Confirmed? July 22, 2026
By David Gelman | Gelman Law, LLC | Cherry Hill, New Jersey | Criminal Defense and Legal Commentary I recently joined Fox Across America to break down a few of the biggest legal stories in the news, and the confirmation of Todd Blanche as attorney general was at the top of the list. I have worked with Todd, I know how he operates, and I have no doubt he will be confirmed. In this recap of that conversation, I want to walk through what we discussed, explain the legal ideas behind the…
read more When a Murder Charge Is Not the Whole Story: What the Mangione Case Teaches Us About Psychiatric Defenses in New Jersey Criminal Law July 15, 2026
By Gelman Law, LLC When a high-profile case dominates the national news cycle, it often opens a window into legal concepts that most people have never had to think about before. The Luigi Mangione case is doing exactly that. Accused of the December 2024 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan, Mangione’s defense team announced in mid-June 2026 that they would pursue a psychiatric defense ahead of the state trial scheduled for September 8, only to withdraw that defense in a court filing the very next day. The announcement and abrupt reversal raised questions about what a…
read more Shooting Charges In New Jersey: What Happens When Police Investigate A Mass Shooting Like The One In Trenton? July 13, 2026
By Gelman Law, LLC | Criminal Defense Attorneys Serving Cherry Hill, Camden County, And All Of New Jersey Late on the night of June 9, 2026, gunfire erupted near the intersection of Furman and Centre streets in South Trenton, leaving seven people wounded, including two teenagers. Investigators recovered more than 50 shell casings spread across several blocks and believe multiple shooters were involved. Investigations like this one move fast and cast a wide net, and the people swept into them are not always the ones who pulled a trigger. If detectives have contacted you about any shooting in New Jersey,…
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