Phil’s Published Articles

Your Law License and Marijuana

This article explores the interaction between jurisdictions that allow and prohibit marijuana, recreationally and as a medicine, and how it can impact a lawyer’s license to practice law. Current through February 2016.

The Colorado Lawyer Articles:

How successful are sex offenders on probation? What about other offenders? Data provided by the Colorado State Judicial Department shows that about 15% of Sex Offender Intensive Supervision Probation (SOISP) probationers are revoked within the first year and 25-30% are revoked within the first two years the individual is on probation (the data varies by the year probation began). Click here for the data for probationers starting in 2003 to 2009.

Other Legal Publications

Phil Cherner also wrote the following articles, which were published over the years in a variety of legal publications:

  • The Alibi Defense
    Trial Talk, Fall, 1987
  • Several articles
    for the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar newsletter (The Rap Sheet) over the years.