Criminal Defense
Avoiding Criminal Conviction With Your Criminal Defense Attorney
Why hiring a skilled criminal defense attorney can help you avoid a criminal conviction We often receive questions about how a person who has plead guilty to a crime can return to court and withdraw his guilty plea. The answer is that in some cases we will be able to accomplish this for our clients but in others we may not be able to do so. The law states that…
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Criminal Defense Attorneys Needed to Battle Dishonest Cops
Contrary to what you might have been taught when you were a youngster, the police do not always tell the truth! This is a sad realization that happens more than one would think. As criminal defense attorneys in Los Angeles, we see it all the time. Some examples of police dishonesty that we come across include police lying to suspects during interrogations in order to get them to talk, inaccurate…
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Sex Crime Law and Megan’s Law Hysteria
Are you or a loved one charged with or convicted of a sex crime? If so, a host of complicated legal issues await you. The California sex crime defense lawyers at the law firm of Wallin & Klarich has represented thousands of individuals over the past 30 years that have had legal issues with the justice system regarding sex crimes. Issues such as: 1) Successful representation at the trial court…
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Those Fighting Restraining Orders Should Contact a Restraining Order Lawyer Following Recent Supreme Court Decision
In the previous two installments, we discussed how the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in D.C. v. Heller left open many important questions concerning how the newly established "individual" right to "keep and bear arms" fits within present laws restricting an individual's ability to exercise said right, and how, typically, a government seeking to restrict a person's exercise of a "fundamental" right has to make a very strong showing as to…
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Right to Speak at Sentencing for California Criminal Defendants Struck Down
As amazing as it may sound the California Supreme Court ruled on July 24, 2008 that a defendant has no constitutional right to address the court at his sentencing hearing to ask for leniency. The highest court in California ruled the only thing the defendant can state at his California criminal defense sentencing hearing is whether or not the defendant feels his sentence is "illegal". The courts decision runs…
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Appeals Court Rules on Community Funds Spent on Retirement Credits
The California criminal appeals court, the Sixth District Court of Appeals, just ruled that if community funds are used to repurchase retirement service credits then the community has an interest in those service credits and not merely a right of reimbursement. In the case of In re Marriage of Sonne, Husband repurchased Public Employees Retirement System service credits that he had lost as a result of dissolution in his prior…
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Cerritos Criminal and DUI Defense Lawyers
Cerritos, California is part of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area and is considered one of the "Gateway Cities" of the southeast portion of Los Angeles County. Cerritos is unlike many cities in the United States in that it is chartered; that is, residents choose its form of government and not State or Federal law. With large shopping complexes like the Los Cerritos Center and the Cerritos Auto Park,…
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Check Disciplinary History Before Retaining a Criminal Defense Attorney
Anyone who is seeking legal representation for their California criminal defense matters wants to have a very qualified lawyer fighting for them. One way the State Bar of California is trying to help consumers in making an informed decision is their recent decision to post "online" all prior attorney disciplinary history on the State Bar of California website. What this means to the consumer looking for the most qualified lawyer…
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Vandals May Need a San Diego Criminal Defense Lawyer
If you watch the news in San Diego, you may have heard how some local community residents have banded together to clean up all the graffiti in a San Diego neighborhood. Graffiti reduces property value and makes the neighborhood look trashy. These individuals are also taking pictures of all the graffiti in the neighborhood and will paint over everything they see. The kicker here is that they are committed to…
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Federal Sentencing Guidelines no Longer Dictate What a Federal Judge Can do at Sentencing in a Federal Criminal Case
The United States Supreme Court in Gall vs. United States held that the federal sentencing "guidelines" are no longer binding on what sentence a federal judge decides to hand down in any particular case. The US Supreme Court recently held that the federal judge now has broad discretion to sentence a criminal defendant to a higher or lower sentence than the guidelines provide. The judges' decision will only be reversed…
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