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Can the Police Search My Home Without a Warrant?

22 Mar 2017
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It’s rarely a good sign when the police come knocking at your door. But when the police come to your house looking for evidence of a crime, this can be an extremely dangerous situation, and how you respond can be critical to defending yourself or a family member from criminal...
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Can You Be Convicted of a Crime in CA if Someone Else Actually Committed It?

14 Feb 2017
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One of the biggest misconceptions that people have about the criminal law is that they can only be convicted of the crime if they themselves took the actions which constituted the crime. Thus, a person might think that if he merely took some seemingly legal action of telling a...
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Facing Assault Charges: Proving Self-Defense

20 Dec 2016
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There are two sides to every story in an assault charge and figuring out who was the innocent victim and who was the criminally liable aggressor often comes down to a matter of which story to believe. At the same time, however, California law provides a valid self-defense to...
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Can Your Internet Search History Be Used Against You in Court?

12 Dec 2016
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More and more, when we want answers to a burning question or simply want to gather information or entertain ourselves, we turn to Google or some other search engine to get us where we want to go on the internet. This is especially likely to be true when we have an issue we do not...
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New CA Law Ends Ten-Year Statute of Limitations on Rape Cases

08 Nov 2016
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The principle of the statute of limitations for bringing criminal charges against an individual has been part of our justice system since our nation’s founding. There are a number of reasons for having a statutes of limitations, which we will discuss below. The state of...
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Does the Hacking of Leslie Jones’ Website Qualify as Revenge Porn?

07 Sep 2016
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Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones has been in the news quite a bit this summer. She starred in one of the summer’s biggest movies, Ghostbusters, and even helped with NBC’s coverage of the Rio Olympics, but her presence in the media has exposed some of our society’s worst...
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Using to Proposition 47 to Reduce Your Felony Drug Charges to a Misdemeanor

11 Apr 2016
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When a hot-button political campaign includes both Jay-Z and Newt Gingrich among its supporters, you know that something with a wide social impact must be at issue. And that was exactly the case when Californians passed Proposition 47 in November 2014, a law that reclassified...
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Molly Possession Charges — What Now?

07 Mar 2016
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Molly, also known as Ecstasy, has been in the headlines recently because of a number of overdose deaths on the electronic dance circuit. If you are facing Molly possession charges — you’ve got trouble. Your best course of action is to speak with an experienced criminal...
What to Do If You Are Facing Cocaine Possession Charges

What to Do If You Are Facing Cocaine Possession Charges

01 Mar 2016
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Cocaine is a highly addictive and dangerous drug. It is listed on Schedule I, a federally-established category that also includes methamphetamines and oxycodone. California, like many states, imposes harsh penalties for the possession, transportation or sale of cocaine. If you...
The Penalties for Mail Fraud Include Prison Time

The Penalties for Mail Fraud Include Prison Time

23 Feb 2016
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It may come as a surprise that the penalties for mail fraud are extremely harsh. After all, we all frequently receive “offers” in our mailboxes that seem a too good to be true. Surely, it would seem, outrageous offers don’t seem to be a concern. Most of the time, those letters...
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