Recent Posts in Constitutional Law Category
Posted on Nov 13, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
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 ...
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Posted on Nov 13, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
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 ...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
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 ...
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Posted on Oct 2, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kelvin Filer overturned the murder conviction of Obie Anthony and ordered that he be immediately released from jail. Anthony, age 37, spend 17 years in custody after ...
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Posted on Sep 14, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
As a criminal defense attorney I am constantly trying to stay up to date on new criminal case law and legislation as well as the state of the justice system in California and the United States. One of ...
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Posted on Sep 3, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
In a landmark case, the Federal Court just ruled that immigrants are entitled to a hearing and potential bail before any prolonged detention. The Court said that failure to do so is unconstitutional ...
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Posted on Jun 18, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
The Supreme Court rules that when police take a child out of school for the purpose of questioning them about a crime, Miranda warnings are required. In a 5 to 4 ruling, Justice sotomayor clearly ...
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