Jubilació AFP vs ONP (V parte)
Jubilación AFP vs ONP (V parte) Este será el más extenso de mis comentarios sobre el tema, pido por favor que antes lean con atención la entrevista que un buen amigo colgó en Internet, sobre ella y...
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Lansing Woman to Stand Trial on Charge of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon in...
On Thursday April 11, 26-year-old Pamela King was bound over to circuit court by Lansing District Judge Hugh Clarke on a charge of felonious assault, also known as assault with a dangerous weapon. King...
View ArticleIf (and when?) confirmed, will Judge William Pryor champion federalism...
As reported in this post yesterday, President Obama officially nominated three new persons to serve on the US Sentencing Commission: an east-coast academic (NYU Professor Rachel Barkow) a west-coast...
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Ypsilanti Man Convicted of Sexual Assault in March Faces Additional Charges
On March 15, 76-year-old Dervin Mood was convicted by an Oakland County jury on a charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct; Mood was on federal probation for child pornography at the time. Now it...
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Gun Control Bill Defeated in Senate
The Senate today rejected new gun control measures. Among the measures that failed: One that banned high-capacity magazines with more than ten rounds, one that banned rapid-firing "assault" weapons and...
View ArticleArmed Shoplifter Eludes Authorities
Authorities are still looking for an alleged shoplifter who pulled a knife on Walmart security employees back in March. The Midvale store reported that the person appeared to be shoplifting and was...
View ArticleWhat is Unlawful Imprisonment in Arizona?
Unlawful Imprisonment is a felony offense in which a person restrains another person temporarily. Though a serious felony, an unlawful imprisonment charge does not mean the offender possessed malice in...
View ArticleUnited State Supreme Court Prohibits Forced Blood Draws Without A Warrant
In what is known as a plurality decision, one in which the judges agree with each other in certain parts but not others, the slim majority in Missouri v McNeely, has stated that police officers cannot...
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Supreme Court Limits Warrantless Forced Blood Tests for DUI Suspects
The Supreme Court today ruled in Missouri v. McNeely (opinion here) that the natural dissipation of alcohol in the bloodstream does not constitute an exigency in every case sufficient to justify...
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Show Me The Warrant In (some) DUI Blood Cases
U.S. Supreme Court filed Missouri v. McNeely today, refusing to recognize a categorical exception to the warrant requirement in DUI cases where the police order a person's blood drawn against his or...
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Not So Petty Theft in Southern California Riles up San Bernardino Residents:...
If you tried to design a Los Angeles petty theft crime that would make you look like a classic “bad guy,” you'd have a hard time beating this guy. According to NBC Los Angeles, a skateboarder recently...
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Long Beach DUI Sports News: Trumaine Johnson of St. Louis Rams Busted for...
Although this blog focuses on Long Beach DUI cases, we’ve been covering a surprisingly sizable number of cases out of the Big Sky State of Montana recently. To wit, The Associated Press is reporting...
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The DUI Officer Can’t Hold You Down While They Jab a Needle Into Your Arm (at...
Missouri v. McNeely has been decided. We can all breath a sigh of relief that the United States Supreme Court has affirmed the judgment of the Missouri Supreme Court. The case holds that in a DUI...
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Teen ‘sexting’ case goes to trial in Fairfax County
4-17-2013 Virginia: Three Fairfax County high school students made cellphone videos of drunken sex acts with fellow teens and shared them among themselves, authorities said. When they go on trial......
View Article9th Circuit Reverses CA City Treasurer’s “Honest Services Fraud” Convictions
On Monday, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Albert Robles, former Treasurer for South Gate, California, acquitted on three charges for “honest services fraud,” 18 U.S.C. 1346, which Mr....
View ArticleWhat Sort of People Are We?
Call it mercy or grace. Call it generosity of spirit if you're made uncomfortable by the seemingly religious sound of those words. (This atheist isn't. I believe deeply in mercy and in...
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Rushing to Judgment Against Those Society Fears
When the Oklahoma City bombings first happened, the first suspects were innocent Muslims. In Boston, the FBI rushed to search the home of a Saudi student injured in the blast. Why does the Washington...
View ArticleRepresented an individual in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of...
We persuaded the U.S. Attorney’s Office to defer prosecution, resulting in the case being closed.
View ArticleHandled a jury trial in the bank robbery case
The trial went to verdict and resulted in the defendant’s acquittal.
View ArticleSuccessfully represented a co-defendant in a 12 million Medicaid Fraud...
Our client was facing a five years prison term but was sentenced to probation, exclusively because of our early intervention.
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