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VA - Police: Sexual Assault at Reston Glen Was False Report
Original Article Diigo Post Excerpt: Fairfax County Police said a woman who made the charges of a sexual assault in Reston last February was charged with making a false police report. The 32-year-old...
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Yoelvis Reyes of Loxahatchee, Florida Arrested for Manufacturing Marijuana
Yoelvis Reyes of Loxahatchee, Florida was arrested Wednesday after he was accused of growing numerous marijuana plants inside an area residence, news sources report. Reyes, 29, was booked into the Palm...
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Sean Toltin of Miami-Dade County, Florida Arrested for Exploitation of the...
Sean Toltin of Miami-Dade County, Florida was arrested this past week after he was accused of defrauding 90-year-old Jean Moore out of an excess of $3,000, news sources report. Toltin, 45, was booked...
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Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Talk to the Police
Original Article Diigo Post Excerpt: From James Kirk Piccione, a Lawyer REASON #1: Talking to the police CANNOT help you. If the police are talking to you, it’s because they suspect you have committed...
View ArticleSAC’s Steinberg Wants to Screen Jurors For Bias As a Result of Media Coverage
Attorneys for SAC Capital portfolio manager Michael Steinberg, charged with insider trading in the Southern District of New York, have asked the court to institute certain remedial measures to guard...
View ArticleDo Judges Punish or Rehabilitate?
One of the hardest things that a Judge has to do is sentencing a defendant. Sentencing is the time when the judge has the greatest power over a person’s life and will ultimately decide what happens...
View ArticleAlford-Serrano plea is effective
The defendant father was indicted in 1994 in a twenty-eight count indictment charging that he engaged in sex relations with his 15 year old daughter, during a three month period. He entered into a...
View ArticleMistrial is denied
A Nassau Criminal Lawyer said that, this case is a criminal proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus to compel the Presiding Justice, the Clerk, and the Deputy Clerks of the...
View ArticleHope For Actually Innocent Offenders
More than 90 percent of criminal defendants plead guilty rather than go to trial. While some of these defendants are innocent and choose to plead guilty rather than face a… read more →
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BOSTON LAW ENFORCEMENT CONDUCT CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS TO SOLVE FUTURE...
I’ll bet you thought the police had enough to do with solving Massachusetts crimes concerning violence, guns, drugs and the like. Sometimes, when conducting these criminal investigations, the police go...
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Daytona Domestic Violence Arrests Spike in Summer Heat
A police officer from Holly Hill was recently arrested for domestic violence and subsequently fired after it was alleged he struck his estranged wife during a dispute over their young daughter. Our...
View ArticleDecision is reversed on appeal
Sometime in early February 1970, the police learned from a reliable informant that a certain person (the defendant) along with a friend of his were engaged in extensive heroin trafficking. The two...
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George Zimmerman Trial: Defense Rests
The defense has rested in the George Zimmerman trial. It did not introduce any evidence of Tryavon Martin's marijuana use or fighting. Its final two witnesses were Olivia Beltaran, a former resident at...
View ArticleTea Party vs. Prosecutors: The changing dynamic of Texas criminal-justice...
Grits readers will find little new in this Texas Tribune story analyzing criminal-justice reform legislation from the 83rd Texas Legislature, but I thought the prosecutor association lobbyist's...
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Counsel's competence is questioned
The criminal defendant and two co-defendants were indicted for multiple counts of forgery and grand larceny for having endorsed and cashed New York State employment checks over a three year period. The...
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Erial Hernandez Diaz and Anibal Delgado Reyes of Hialeah, Florida Arrested...
Erial Hernandez Diaz and Anibal Delgado Reyes of Hialeah, Florida were arrested this past week for allegedly attempting to catch an alligator, despite the fact that neither man has a permit to do so,...
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Zachary Mueller of Fort Lauderdale, Florida Arrested for Sexual Battery
Zachary Mueller of Fort Lauderdale, Florida was arrested Thursday after he was accused of sexually assaulting a minor while she slept, news sources report. Mueller, 31, was booked into the Broward...
View ArticleMichigan DUI - The Arraignment After a Drunk Driving Arrest in the Detroit...
In part 1 of this article, we began exploring the arraignment stage in Michigan DUI cases. In my role as a Detroit DUI lawyer, meaning a DUI attorney who exclusively handles drunk driving cases in the...
View ArticleOffense dictates the sentencing
The criminal defendant appealed from his convictions of first-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. According to the defendant, the court erred in imposing upon him...
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Defendant is found to be sane
A man was indicted on two counts of robbery in the second degree. But, he pleads not guilty to both indictments, with a reason of insanity and he was thereafter sent to the hospital for observation....
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