A common question asked by defense attorneys is whether a deferred prosecution or pre-trial diversion would have any adverse immigration consequences for their non-citizen clients.  In other words, are these diversionary programs considere...
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Little information is forthcoming about yesterday’s FBI raid of the offices of State Senator Ron Calderon. It is known that no arrests were made in the raid and that it is part of an ongoing investigation into alleged bribery of state off...
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Information has surfaced in the past few weeks that some members of the Elite and Special Forces sections of the Los Angeles Police Department have engaged in buying and selling guns for individual profit. These members are being investigated f...
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On March 20, 2013, a new bipartisan bill was proposed that would potentially mitigate some of the harsh prison sentences which are currently required under federal mandatory minimum laws for people convicted of federal crime such as drug traffi...
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This story aptly demonstrates the palpable effect of re-alignment and the overcrowding of the county jails all over Los Angeles County. As a criminal defense attorney who has handled hundreds of DUI cases in Los Angeles County, I am not rea...
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A question that has been raised more and more in my criminal defense law firm is the possibility of parole for inmates who have already been convicted of indeterminate sentences for either violent crimes of sex crimes.  The answer appears ...
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Even a decade ago, federal and state criminal cases involving sex trafficking seemed few and far between.  However, in the last few years, as a federal criminal defense attorney, in Southern California, and as a female sex crimes attorney,...
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As a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles, who handles a majority of sex crimes cases, I have seen lots of different scenarios involving allegations of child pornography but this is a relatively uncommon one: Letha Mae Montemayor ,a 52-year...
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As a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles who has handled a lot of child abuse, murder, and violent crimes cases, this story leaped out at me because it just seems terribly sad.  First of all, we know that the accused is only 21-years-...
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As a sex crimes defense attorney in Los Angeles, I tend to pay attention to all news stories that involve perceived public outrage over changes in the laws involving these sensitive type of sexually-related cases.   Interestingly enou...
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