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Proposition 36
California is suffering a severe prison crisis that it is unconstitutionally crowded. In 1994, California enacted the “Three Strikes and You’re Out” law which was the harshest sentencing law in the country. Thousands of inmates were sentenced to life in prison for...
Juvenile Crimes
There are three types of juvenile cases that a minor can be involved in: status offenses, delinquency offenses and juveniles being tried as an adult. As a parent, it is frightening when your child gets in trouble so if you find yourself in this situation, make sure to...
Expungement or Sealing of Adult Criminal Records
Because having a criminal record can wreak havoc in your life, whether it’s with an employer or landlord or any other similar situation, you might be able to clean up your record through a process called expungement, or expunction. Expungement refers to the process of...
Sexual Battery in California
Because sexual battery includes acts of inappropriate or more offensive touching, it is considered a more serious battery offense in California that can either be charged as a misdemeanor or felony and can have severe consequences. By definition, any person who...
Assault With a Deadly Weapon
In California, assault with a deadly weapon (ADW) is a very serious crime and can be charged as either a misdemeanor or felony. In order for it to be considered an assault with a deadly weapon, it must be an assault with any type of “deadly weapon” or by the means of...
Drug Possession in California and How That’s Changed since Prop 47
On November 4, 2014, California voters passed Prop 47 by nearly 60%, which redefined some nonviolent offenses as misdemeanors, rather than felonies as they had previously been charged. Because of this, it has released 2,700 inmates after their felonies were reduced to...
White Collar Criminal Defense
White-collar crime covers a variety of nonviolent crimes involving cheating of some sort. Such crimes include fraud, bribery, insider trading, environmental crime, embezzlement, forgery, tax evasion, kickbacks, and money laundering. Many different agencies are...
Getting a Criminal Record Deleted
Employers, schools, landlords, etc will want to know if you have a criminal history for a reason. They use such information to either judge, accept, or hire you in the given situations. Having a criminal record will haunt you for the rest of your life, regardless of...
Murder
There are different degrees of murder. Murder one, or capital murder, is the premeditated, willful, and deliberate killing of another person. In most jurisdictions, the person who kills while attempting to inflict serious bodily injury on another has shown sufficient...
Burglary/Robbery Defense
Often times, people assume that burglary and theft are the same crime. However, they are two very different criminal offenses. Theft is defined as “taking property, belonging to someone else, with the intent to permanently deprive at the time of the taking. Basically,...
