Criminal Defense Attorney

Would obtaining a Criminal Defense Attorney for a first DWI, be worth it? or just go with a Public Defender?

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:41:40 +0000

Would a Private Attorney really do anything special for a first DWI? or just go threw the process with the Public Defender. This will affect my work, since I drive a company car. I was a point 19 Related posts:Not having a Public Defender appointed in a Criminal Case.?Would you get a public defender or hire [...] Related posts:

Will illegals use the defense did not know the documents were fake or stolen 12 arrested document fraud?

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:07:04 +0000

PANAMA CITY, Fla. – Twelve illegal aliens were arrested here today by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and Bay County Sheriff’s deputies following a joint investigation into document fraud.

The announcement was made by Thomas F. Kirwin, the United States attorney for the Northern District of Florida, Susan McCormick, ICE special agent in charge (SAC) of the ICE Office of Investigations which oversees Panama City and Frank McKeithen, Bay County sheriff.

The arrests were made at a local business in Panama City. The defendants, 11 men and one woman, are from various countries including Panama and Mexico. They have been charged via criminal complaint for document fraud.

They will have their initial appearance in United States District Court at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow before United States Magistrate Judge Larry A. Bodiford.

“Immigration fraud poses a severe threat to national security and public safety because it creates a vulnerability that may enable criminals and illegal aliens to gain entry to and remain in the United States,” said SAC McCormick. “Those who think that they can flagrantly break our laws are mistaken.”

Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen stated, “We will continue to do everything in our power to remove illegal aliens from our county who are infringing on our resources.”

The prosecution of this case is being handled by Assistant United States Attorneys Ryan Love and Corey Smith. The investigation into this case is ongoing.

A criminal complaint is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/news/13282

Are more gang members going to pretend that they are illegal aliens to avoid prosecution?

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:41:23 +0000

Posted On: January 11, 2010 by William Weinberg
Santa Ana California Gang Member Claims Illegal Alien Status to Avoid Arrest

You can’t say he wasn’t creative. Adolfo Aparicio, a documented Santa Ana gang member misidentified himself as an illegal alien so that he could avoid capture for an attempted murder charge for which he was being sought.

Turns out Aparicio got into a domestic dispute with his wife and mother in law. When the cops came, he took off but soon returned and took some shots at his wife, who fortunately, wasn’t hurt. Aparicio fled the area again and was arrested in Arizona, where he gave a fake name. But his fingerprints did him in: they matched a wanted out of Santa Ana for the attempted murder of his wife.

Aparicio is getting deported….to Santa Ana. He’ll face the criminal charges. It will be interesting to see if the District Attorney tries to charge it as a gang offense, which this incident doesn’t smack of. In either event, Mr. Aparicio is going to need good legal representation, because like it or not, his gang background will come up and may work against him.

Whether you live in Newport Beach, Fullerton or San Clemente, if you are charged with domestic assault or battery, call an experienced defense attorney right away to assist you.

Whether you live in Irvine, Placentia or Santa Ana, if you are charged with assault or battery, call an experienced defense attorney right away to assist you

Is it Hard too>!>>!?!?!?

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:46:55 +0000

Is it hard to become a public defender after you graduate law school for criminal law? I am wanting to go law school and become a criminal defense attorney where do most lawyers that just graduate law school go to work? Thank You for the help!
Max Hoopla- So, are you saying that they want more public defenders in the future? Thanks

I am wanting to…..?

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:49:15 +0000

Hey yall I am currently in undergrad college for Criminal Justice. I am wanting to attend law school after i graduate to become a criminal defense attorney. My question is do you think it would be rude to walk into a law office this summer asking if i can do a internship. For example, I am wanting experience what its like to be a defense attorney such as what they do on a every day basis and sit in court with them and watch them at trials. What is the best way to go about doing this? I dont wanna be rude and forward and didnt know if it would be disrespectful to just walk in and ask. Any advice would be very appreciated. Thank you and have a good day!

Why are violent dangerous illegal alien crimicals released from jails & free to walk the streets of America?

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:45:24 +0000

Hundreds of missed opportunities to deport convicted criminals, perpetuating a cycle of crime and violence.

•Armando De La Cruz, a Mexican national, told jailers on two occasions in 2007 that he was undocumented. Both times, he was convicted of assaulting his wife and released after serving his jail time. De La Cruz is now back in Harris County Jail, charged with raping a woman at knife point behind a southeast Houston apartment complex in July, and attempting to rape another woman less than a week later. His defense attorney, Ricardo Gonzalez, did not return phone calls.
•Pedro Alvarez, a convicted sex offender from El Salvador who was first deported in 1991, racked up eight convictions in Harris County over a span of two decades and was allowed to walk free from jail multiple times — as recently as the spring of 2007. Immigration officials finally charged him with re-entry after deportation in February. Sandra Zamora Zayas, the attorney who represented Alvarez in federal court in South Texas, did not return phone messages.
"It’s just amazing how long it took them to catch up with him," the mother of a 5-year-old girl Alvarez sexually assaulted in 1988 said in an interview with the Chronicle, after learning about Alvarez’s extended criminal history.

‘Never lied about who I am’
Miguel Mejia Rodriguez, 36, is locked up on the fifth floor of the San Jacinto Jail downtown, accused of raping and sodomizing a second-grader.

It is the fourth time in 12 years that Rodriguez, an unemployed drifter from Zacatecas, Mexico, has landed in Harris County Jail. Over the years, Rodriguez has served time for drug possession, theft, trespassing and indecent exposure. He told jailers he was in the country illegally in December 2006, after a security guard caught him touching himself in an apartment complex parking lot, records show.

But ICE officials did not file paperwork to detain Rodriguez. He was released after serving his 25-day sentence.

"I never lied about who I am, or where I’m from. I’m 100 percent Mexican," Rodriguez said in a jail interview with the Chronicle in September, after he was accused of the rape and sodomy of a 7-year-old.

According to court records, the girl told a friend Rodriguez started abusing her after her mother died in 2005, while he was living with her family.

The girl was hospitalized and treated for syphilis, court records show. In an interview with Houston police detectives, Rodriguez admitted to contracting syphilis from a woman he met in a Houston cantina, but he denied raping the girl. He said she was a "troublemaker" who lied because he punished her when she misbehaved.

When he was arrested on the sexual assault charge in July 2007, Rodriguez again told jailers he was in the country illegally, records show. In June, nearly a year after his arrest, ICE officials filed paperwork to detain Rodriguez, who is scheduled for trial in December.

Deadly consequences
Katherine Anne Bridges, deaf and mute, was just 19 in the fall of 2004 when she told Harris County authorities that Jeremias Fuentes, her boyfriend, tried to grab their 6-month-old baby boy from her arms and kicked her in the face. He hid her emergency phone so she couldn’t call for help. Fuentes was sentenced to 20 days in jail.

Nearly three years later, in August 2007, Fuentes was arrested again, suspected of interfering with case workers trying to interview Bridges about abuse allegations. Fuentes, 36, told jailers he was an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, records show. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail. He was released after ICE didn’t file paperwork to detain him.

On the morning of Nov. 26, 2007, a medical examiner puzzled over the writing scrawled on Bridges’ palm. It read in part: "Payback because … help me."

The evening before, Bridges’ body had been found facedown in the bedroom closet of her southwest Houston apartment complex. She had blood in her brown hair and a dozen stab wounds on her face, neck, chest and back. A knife rested on the baby crib.

Detectives questioned Fuentes, who admitted he stabbed Bridges, but he said it was self-defense. In December, immigration officials filed the paperwork to detain Fuentes, who declined a request for a jail interview. He is scheduled for trial in February.

Andy Kahan, director of the Houston Mayor Crime Victims Office, said he hoped Bridges’ case could be a ”catalyst for change" and encourage local authorities to work more closely with ICE to ensure inmates with violent criminal histories are vetted before release.

"There were numerous opportunities to do the correct thing, and that’s have him deported, and that didn’t happen. And as a result, a woman paid dearly with her life," Kahan said.

Matthew Baker, an assistant field office director for ICE in Houston, said agents try to screen out as many violent criminals as possible to avoid preventable crimes. Many illegal immigrants are identified by ICE in the state’s pris

lawyer and attorney civil or criminal?

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:42:07 +0000

If someone was sent to jail for something they didn’t do and they’re rights were violated then what type of attorney would they call, civil attorney or criminal defense attorney? Related posts:Can a lawyer try both Civil and Criminal Cases?Its my dream to become a lawyer, but guilty about defending a killer?My lawyer is lame, can [...] Related posts:

Why do attorneys want to talk to jury members after trial?

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:40:19 +0000

I just finished serving jury duty on a criminal trial. After the verdict was read and all the jurors received our certificates, the defense attorney was trying to get jurors to speak with the defendant. Does anyone know why? I was in a hurry to get someplace, so I didn’t have time. Just curious…. Thanks!

Is just irony that Attny. Gen.'s push for civilian trials coincided w/ his old law firm providing the defense?

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:05:03 +0000

Of all the infuriating aspects of the decision to transfer five 9/11 war criminals to civilian federal court, the one that grates most is the contention that the Obama administration is finally moving forward after “eight years of delay” — as Attorney General Eric Holder put it at his Friday press conference — during which the Bush administration managed to complete only three military-commission trials.

This is chutzpah writ large. The principal reason there were so few military trials is the tireless campaign conducted by leftist lawyers to derail military tribunals by challenging them in the courts. Many of those lawyers are now working for the Obama Justice Department. That includes Holder, whose firm, Covington & Burling, volunteered its services to at least 18 of America’s enemies in lawsuits they brought against the American people. (During 2007 alone, Covington contributed more than 3,000 hours of free, top-flight legal assistance to our enemy detainees.)

http://www.thefoxnation.com/eric-holder/2009/11/18/holders-former-law-firm-representing-high-value-detainees

Now he won’t release the names for good reason!
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republicans-eric-holder-answers-appointees-defended-terror-suspects/story?id=9959102&page=2

Lawyer/Law School/Help?

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:41:32 +0000

I want to be a criminal defense attorney. Now, when most people graduate law school do they usually start working for a law firm or go in business for thereselves? What paths do most lawyers take when they are new to the career? Any info/help is appreicated. Thanks Related posts:Is it Hard too>!>>!?!?!?Would majoring in Criminal [...] Related posts: