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Riverside Divorce and Family Law Attorneys

Posted on April 14, 2009
Riverside is located near, and named for, the Santa Ana River. As home of most of the Joshua Tree National Park, Riverside County is primarily a desert. Riverside is the county seat of Riverside County and the birthplace of the citrus industry in California...

California Police Informant Tips can be Unreliable

Posted on April 13, 2009
What If The Police Used An Informant In My Case? What Can My Criminal Defense Attorney Do? Before a police officer can stop a person, they must have reasonable suspicion that criminal activity is occurring. One way in which police can get reasonable suspicion is through informants? tips...

California Appeal Reverses Sex Offense Conviction

Posted on April 12, 2009
Often a defendant is accused in one criminal complaint of many different crimes. A very powerful weapon in many cases is for your experienced California criminal defense attorney to bring a motion to sever the cases so you can receive separate trials...

San Diego Drug Diversion Program Granted By Judge

Posted on April 11, 2009
Judge Reverses 19-Year Sentence and Gives Criminal Defendant Drug Diversion Program On Appeal by Criminal Defense Attorney Chauncey Lee Harris was convicted in San Diego Superior Court of transportation of a controlled substance and possession of narcotics paraphernalia in San Diego...

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California Deportation for Drunk Driving On a Suspended License

Posted on April 10, 2009
Drunk Driving On A Suspended License Is a Deportable Crime Requiring the Assistance of a Criminal Defense Attorney A recent ruling by the United States Appeals Court for the 9th District underscores the necessity of hiring an aggressive and skilled California criminal defense attorney...

Redondo Beach Divorce and Family Law Attorneys

Posted on April 09, 2009
Redondo Beach is a city located in the South Bay region of the greater Los Angeles area. Redondo Beach is one of the three major beach cities in Los Angeles County. The city was initially part of the 1784 Rancho San Pedro Spanish land grant. In 2007, Redondo Beach had an estimated population of 67,019 people...

California Preliminary Hearings Deny Use Of Officer History

Posted on April 09, 2009
Defense Hands are Further Tied By New Court Holding, Requiring More Experienced Criminal Defense Attorneys to Handle Cases Properly The court has found more ways to limit a defendant?s ability to fight his or her California felony case at the Preliminary Hearing...

Riverside County Criminal Case Dismissal Rate Highest in California

Posted on April 08, 2009
According to a Los Angeles Daily Journal report, ?Riverside County courts dismiss more criminal cases than any other in the state for missing trial deadlines.? Since Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco was voted into office in January 2007, Riverside County criminal crimes in court have dismissed more felony and misdemeanor trials than any other county in the State...

Rancho Bernardo Divorce and Family Law Attorneys

Posted on April 07, 2009
Rancho Bernardo, California is a community situated among the hills and canyons north of San Diego. Rancho Bernardo is a planned community of primarily wealthy residents and boasts in a sprawling community of largely affluent tract homes, golf courses, office parks, and shopping malls...

California Sex Offender Laws Influenced by Emotion, Not Facts

Posted on April 07, 2009
Sex Offender Laws are Based on Emotion Rather Than Facts, And That Is Why You Need A Criminal Defense Attorney In 2008, the State of California spent $22 million to house sex offenders on parole who must abide by Jessica?s Law or Proposition 83. The proposition, which passed a little over two years ago, requires those convicted of sex crimes in California from living within 2,000 feet of schools, parks, and other places where children often are present...

Immigrant?s Options when Facing Deportation Narrowed

Posted on April 06, 2009
The California Supreme Court ruled this month that immigrants who are facing deportation may no longer rely on two common post-conviction challenges. The court ruled in two separate cases that a writ of habeas corpus, or writ of error coram nobis, would no longer be available to a defendant once they had served a sentence and were no longer on parole or probation...

Calilfornia Juvenile Record Sealing Regulations

Posted on April 05, 2009
Juvenile crimes in California do appear on your criminal record. Upon your 18th birthday, you are eligible to petition to have your juvenile records sealed. Once sealed, no one can gain access to them and they will be completely destroyed five years from the date of sealing...

California Medical Marijuana Prescription Doesn't Hinder Driver's License Renewal

Posted on April 04, 2009
Department Of Motor Vehicles Officials Say California Drivers Cannot Lose Their License Just Because They Have A Medical Marijuana Prescription Medical marijuana prescription holders are breathing a little easier after the Department of Motor Vehicles issues a training memo which states California drivers cannot lose their license just because they have a medical marijuana prescription...

Equal California Protection Rights of Criminal Defendants

Posted on April 03, 2009
Criminal Defense Attorney Proves the Sex Offender Registration Imposed 20 Years Ago Violated Equal Protection Rights of Criminal Defendants Twenty years after a sex offender was convicted by a jury of oral copulation with a minor and was required to register as a sex offender, the offender moved to lift the lifetime registration requirement...

California Legal Right to Bail

Posted on April 02, 2009
If You Are Convicted of a Misdemeanor After a Trial, You Have the Legal Right to Bail as a Matter of Right Recently a person called our office after he had been found guilty by a jury of a misdemeanor offense. The judge sentenced him to six months in county jail...

Pasadena Divorce and Family Law Attorneys

Posted on April 02, 2009
Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County most famous for hosing the annual Rose Bowl Football game and the Tournament of Roses parade. Pasadena is the sixth largest city in LA County and is the main cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. The estimated population of Pasadena in 2007 was reported to be 146,518...

California Dismissed Appeals Can Be Re-Examined

Posted on April 01, 2009
There is Good News for Criminal Defendants Who Lose an Appeal Because Their Attorney Negligently Handled the Matter A recent ruling by the California Court of Appeals gives defendants the opportunity to have their appeal heard by the court if the dismissal of the appeal must result due to the neglect or misconduct of the appellate attorney...

Juvenile Attempted Child Molestation

Posted on March 31, 2009
Juvenile Defendant Wins New Trial in Child Molest Case Based Upon Ineffective Assistance of Counsel for Failure to Properly Investigate the Facts of Case Recently the court of appeals has reversed the conviction of a juvenile who was accused of attempted child molestation after the juvenile was found guilty by a judge of committing the alleged offense...

Palm Desert Divorce and Family Law Attorneys

Posted on March 31, 2009
Palm Desert is a city in the Coachella Valley in Riverside County, California. Palm Desert?s area was originally referred to as the Old MacDonald Ranch, which changed to Palm Village in the 1920s when date palms were planted. Many vacationers from colder climates enjoy the warm climate of Palm desert, increasing the population by an estimated 31,000 each winter...

Probation California Revocation Hearings

Posted on March 30, 2009
What If My Probation Is Revoked? What Do I Do If I Have A Probation Hearing Coming Up? Do I hire a Criminal Defense Attorney? If you are facing a probation revocation hearing in California, it is important that you hire a private attorney immediately...

California Multiple Criminal Charges for One Crime

Posted on March 29, 2009
One Crime but Many Charges? Why You Must Have A Criminal Defense Lawyer How can the government charge many crimes when it's only one event? It?s done everyday. They will say it?s different theories of the same event. An example is the recent California case of People v...

California Hearsay and Out of Court Statements in Criminal Courts

Posted on March 28, 2009
You?re charged with a crime. Does a victim identification always have to be confirmed in court? The answer is not always. In California one of the exceptions is in California Evidence Code 1240. It allows some out of court statements of a witness where the statement was made spontaneously, while the declarant was under the stress of excitement caused by such perception...

California Drunk Driving Could Result in Deportation

Posted on March 27, 2009
Deportation for Drunk Driving: Why You Need a Criminal Defense Attorney A new court decision may allow persons convicted of drunk driving to be deported. On March 4, 2009, the United States Appeals Court for the 9th circuit decided the case of Marmolejo-Campos v...

New Evidence May Allow Second Suppression Hearing

Posted on March 26, 2009
Criminal Defense Attorneys May Have More Than One Attempt At Suppressing Damaging Evidence You may be able to get a second bite at the apple for suppression hearings, but there must be new evidence that justifies the second bite, or your request will be denied...

Palmdale Divorce and Family Law Attorneys

Posted on March 26, 2009
Palmdale is one of the largest cities in the Mojave Desert of California. Palmdale was and continues to be a key location during much of the research and development on many of the United States Air Force's modern aircraft. Some of the better known projects include the SR-71 Blackbird, F-117 Nighthawk, B2 Spirit and the F-35 JSF...

California Juvenile Crime Records Can be Sealed

Posted on March 25, 2009
What Does it Mean to Seal your Juvenile Record? Sealing the records for your juvenile crimes in California means that all records held by the police department, the court, the district attorney, and the probation department will be deemed not to have occurred...

Yvonne Pampellonne Retains Law Offices of Wallin & Klarich

Posted on March 25, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 25, 2009 On March 24, 2009 Yvonne Pampellonne retained the law offices of Wallin and Klarich to represent her as it relates to pending criminal charges of Second Degree Burglary, Grand Theft, and Unauthorized use of personal identifying information in the West Orange County Justice Center...

Selling Drugs in California: Concurrent & Consecutive Sentences

Posted on March 24, 2009
If You Are Arrested for Selling Drugs and the Police Saw You Making Several Sales, You Must Hire an Experienced Criminal Defense Attorney. If you were arrested for selling drugs in a California drug crime, you should know the difference between consecutive and concurrent sentences because new case law might affect your maximum exposure to time in prison...

Ontario Divorce and Family Law Attorneys

Posted on March 24, 2009
Ontario is a thriving city in San Bernardino County, California. Ontario?s population has exploded; increasing to nearly one hundred times the size it was one hundred years ago. Today, it hosts a small international airport and an ECHL hockey team, the Ontario Reign...

Filing a Second Motion to Suppress Evidence

Posted on March 23, 2009
Why You Need an Experienced Criminal Law Firm to Help You Make that Decision You may be able to get a second chance for suppression hearings, but there better be new evidence that justifies the request, or your request will be denied. Late last year, a California Appellate Court ruled that a Defendant was not entitled to a new hearing on a suppression motion at the retrial, unless the defendants could present additional evidence that would justify a different ruling...

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