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MIAMI AND FORT LAUDERDALE
CRIMINAL ATTORNEY
Attorney
Representation in Miami, Florida Since 1984
BENSON WEINTRAUB
Federal
Sentencing Attorney
Booker Federal Criminal Defense Representation,
Plea Negotiations, Sentencing Strategies, International
Criminal Defense & Extradition.
Former Full-Time Law Professor: Private Practice
Limited to Federal Sentencing & Post-Conviction
Remedies, Direct Appeals, Habeas Corpus, Plea Negotiation
& Bureau of Prisons Litigation, for 25 years.
Federal
criminal defense attorney, Benson Weintraub, and his
experienced staff are fully equipped to defend you
in any serious state or federal criminal case.
Mr. Weintraub's approach to sentencing is driven
by two decades of academic research and practical
application of sentencing doctrine— pre &
post Guidelines— in Federal Courts.
In the mid 1970’s, he was an activist with the emerging
prisoners’ rights movement in Washington, DC and served
as a lobbyist in improving conditions of confinement,
advocating more rational correctional philiosophies.
When Benson completed law school, he pioneered
the “specialization” of sentencing and post-conviction
remedies as a free-standing law practice which became
one of the earliest standard bearers in this previously
bastardized field of law.
For the next 20+ years, Benson represented a wide
range of high profile white collar and narcotics defendants,
concentrating on his unique assets in the field of
federal criminal defense, sentencing, direct appeals
and post-conviction litigation, especially law
suits attacking conditions in Special Housing Units
(SHU) for those inmates presenting unarticulated
“security concerns.”
In 2004, he accepted an appointment at Hofstra
Law School to serve as a Visiting Professor
of Law teaching legal writing, appellate advocacy
and guest lecturing in Sentencing. He is recognized
nationally as an academic expert in sentencing strategies
and scholarship. His articles are widely published
and cited by law reviews, including Harv. L. Rev.,
Yale L.J., FED. SENTENCING REP; and more recently,
a published federal court decision.
- Benson’s return to private practice has been characterized by successful post-Booker litigation in federal courts: sentencing and resentencing, plea strategies correlated with stipulated application of advisory Guidelines, direct and collateral appeals, Habeas Corpus: Motions to Vacate Conviction/Sentence, 28 USC §§ 2255, 2254, 2241; Mandamus; Criminal (pretrial and post-trial) Litigation; habeas corpus, including collateral review and conditions of confinement.
Supervised release-probation
compliance counseling and violation proceedings; Administrative
agency representation
Corporate
Compliance programs under Sarbanes-Oxley and the Guidelines
(Chapt. 8).
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