Recent Posts in Misdemeanor Category
Posted on Apr 5, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
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 ...
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Posted on Mar 20, 2011 By Jeffrey Vallens
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 ...
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Posted on Dec 25, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
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 ...
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Posted on Dec 18, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Anthony Mohr issued a temporary injuction allowing dozens of Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries to stay open pending new City Laws or further court action. The ...
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Posted on Dec 4, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Expect to see extra CHP cruisers on the 118 freeway for the next year. The California Highway Patrol obtained a large grant to fund extra DUI patrols on State Highway 118. These funds will go toward ...
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Posted on Dec 4, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
DUI arrests both locally and across the state increased this year from last year. The CHP reported that the number of people arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol drugs or both increased ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Two Los Angeles area car wash owners were just sentenced to a year in the Los Angeles County Jail and will have to pay hundreds of thousands in fines after they were convicted of multiple criminal ...
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Posted on Jun 8, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
Singer Chris Brown was recently denied a visa for travel to the United Kingdom because of his criminal history. As a result of the visa denial, Brown's tour had to be post-poned. As a result of ...
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Posted on May 12, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
The Los Angeles City Attorney charged Ralphs grocery stores with multiple counts of overcharging their customers. The Los Angeles County Department of Weights and Measures recently conducted an ...
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Posted on Apr 27, 2010 By Jeffrey Vallens
July 1, 2010 is the beginning of a pilot project in Los Angeles County where every person convicted of DUI will be required to install an ignition interlock device in their vehicle. For those of you ...
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Posted on Feb 9, 2009 By Jeffrey Vallens
BAIL AND THE BAIL SYSTEM From Arrest to Exoneration The dreaded event occurs...you or someone you love is arrested. Police take him to the station ask him a few identifying questions and take his ...
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