Which Prevents More Drug Crimes, Treatment or Jail?

Incarceration appears to be a more effective deterrent to drug crime than treatment, according to a study of Proposition 36 recently released by UCLA’s Integrated Substance Abuse Programs at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. In 2000, California voters passed Proposition 36, also known as the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act, which offered […]

Dealing With Police Errors

Every Los Angeles criminal defense attorney has faced police errors, either in the not following proper procedure, fudging paper work or some other mistake that enables the attorney to help his/her client beat the charges. Not every error is done with malice, but Los Angeles criminal attorneys with a keen eye for detail can be […]

Expungement and Record Sealing: The Importance of Criminal Defense Attorneys

Criminal charges usually carry more than just jail time; they carry consequences that far outlive jail time.  This makes the possibility of the expungement of past offenses an important step for many people.  For example, California regulators have announced emergency measures to investigate the criminal backgrounds of all registered nurses in the state, days after […]

A Tale of Two Lawyers

Recently I blogged about my nephew’s frightening experience with the court system. A couple of beers with his high school friends before going off to college turned into a nightmare when he was stopped for DUI by a no-nonsense Virginia cop. (See our Oct. 10 post.) My 18-year-old nephew was lucky. His folks hired an […]

Sex Crimes in Los Angeles

One of the most serious crimes on the books is a sexual offense, because of the impact to the victim and the convicted. 
Sexual crimes and child sexual abuse are among the most devastating of crimes. Through their criminal acts, sex crime and child sexual abuse offenders can inflict severe physical, emotional, and psychological trauma on […]

What Is a Criminal Appeal?

After Alan Shore makes his weekly impassioned speech to the jury on Boston Legal, somewhere between the foreman’s reading of the always favorable verdict and the tears and hugs of the newly freed defendant, the plaintiff’s angry lawyer usually shouts, “Your Honor, We will appeal!” So what is an appeal and how does it work?
Essentially, […]

Jail or College? A Skilled Attorney Made All the Difference

If it weren’t for the experience and skill of his attorney, my 18-year-old nephew could be sitting behind bars instead of in a college classroom today. My nephew’s not a bad kid; in fact, he’s a great kid. But like most barely 18-year-olds he doesn’t always make great choices. One of those choices got him arrested […]

Fatal DUI in California

A tour bus carrying people to a Casino in Northern California crashed, killing eight people and sending dozens to area hospitals.  Patrol officers believe the bus owner was Daniel Cobb, 68, who died in the crash.  The accident happened in early October. 
The driver, who didn’t have a proper license to carry passengers and the vehicle had […]

Stalking a Los Angeles Laker

An El Segundo woman has been charged with stalking Los Angeles Lakers forward Luke Walton. The woman was arrested after she pulled up to his car and pretended to fire gunshots at him with her hand. She pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor count of stalking. A Nov. 6 trial date has been set in […]

Drug Abuse May Have Contributed to Fatal Bus Crash

Drugs may have contributed to Sunday’s tragic bus crash that killed 8 people and injured 30 en route to a Sacramento gambling casino. The 52-year-old driver of the charter bus, Quintin Watts, was arrested in his hospital bed earlier this week on the suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI) of drugs. Watts, who was […]

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