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- Spy Plane Coming To Lancaster, California
The Lancaster City Counsel just approved a spy plane to conduct aerial surveillance over Lancaster ten hours per day and seven days per week. The images captured by the occupied plane will supposedly ...
- Cities Can Ban Marijuana Dispensaries
A three judge panel in the 4th District (Riverside) Court of Appeal of the State of California just ruled that cities and counties are free to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in their ...
- Hiring an Expert Criminal Defense Attorney
How do you know that the lawyer you are hiring is an expert at criminal defense? There are a lot of highly competent lawyers in our community. How do we know that the lawyer we pay is the right lawyer ...
- Pill Pushers Beware, The DA's Office and the DEA may be Watching You
I was recently contacted by the Los Angeles Area Drug Enforcement Administration or DEA. Special Agents on a task force dealing with physicians over-prescribing pills called me because they wanted to ...
- Cities Can Ban Marijuana Dispensaries
A three judge panel in the 4th District (Riverside) Court of Appeal of the State of California just ruled that cities and counties are free to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in their ...
- Pot Bust Near Pyramid Lake
Ventura County law enforcement busted seven people and confiscated an estimated 130 pounds of marijuana in a farm-like setup near Pyramid Lake in the Los Padres national forest. Sheriff's ...
- Suspected Urban Terrorists Arrested in Hemet
Hemet, California Poice announced the arrests of two men on Saturday in connection withthe recent urban terrorism against the City of Hemet and the Hemet, California Police Department. A joint task ...
- Cities Can Ban Marijuana Dispensaries
A three judge panel in the 4th District (Riverside) Court of Appeal of the State of California just ruled that cities and counties are free to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in their ...
- Medical Marijuana Is Not A Crime
Many years after the voters in California passed an initiative to allow legal use and possession of marijuana, the federal government still does not see it our way. The Compassionate Use Act allows ...
- How Much Should It Cost to Hire A Criminal Defense Attorney
I regularly get calls from potential clients who do not wish to give out any case-specific information and want to get a "quote" over the telephone for the cost of my criminal defense services. It is ...
- Consequences of a Domestic Battery Conviction
Domestic Battery seems to be the crime de jour to prosecute these days. Ever since the O.J. Simpson case, police officers do not seem to be able to go out to any domestic battery call without ...
- Jurors Step Up to Nullify Marijuana Laws
Here in Los Angeles people have long had a liberal view of illegal drug use. In recent years we have seen our state's marijuana laws become more and more liberal as well. Not all other states take the ...
- L. A. Unified Teacher Arrested for Multiple Child Sex Offenses
Mark Berndt, a long time Los Angeles Unified School District teacher was just arrested and charged with multiple sex offenses against his students. The allegations include that he gagged the students, ...
- Backlog of DNA Evidence Finally Cleared Up
The Los Angeles Police Department has finally cleared up a backlog of DNA evidence which has existed for many years. Sadly, this was not before they suffered a new backlog from current DNA samples ...
- Convicted Sex Offender Sentenced to Nine Years
A 61 year old Los Angeles Man was just sentenced to nine years in Federal Prison for traveling to Cambodia for the purpose of having sex with a 14 year old girl . Michael James Dodd was also ordered ...
- Amnesty for Unpaid Traffic Tickets in Los Angeles County Superior Court
The Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles will begin an amnesty program where offenders can get their traffic tickey fines cut in half. Any person whe had a traffic ticket fine that was due on ...
- Fighting Your Traffic Ticket
FIGHTING YOUR TRAFFIC TICKET Another common question that I get as a criminal defense attorney is: How can I beat my traffic ticket? My answer is almost always the same: Set every traffic ticket for ...
- LAPD Officers Sue City Over Traffic Ticket Quotas
10 Los Angeles Police Department Officers from the West Traffic Division sued the City of Los Angeles alleging that the LAPD has a traffic ticket quota that the officers must meet. The officers ...