I plan on Challenging the Constitutionally of the Mandatory Conviction on Misdemeanor Speeding. There is another case on Appeal.

A judge in Du Page County is required to follow the law as declared by the Second District of the Appellate Court until such time as the Illinois...

I was followed by a city cop without his lights on into the next county were he stopped me was this legal

Assuming that the arrest was defective for the reasons you recite, I do not see what difference it would make. A defective arrest is not normally...

Do officers have to read EVERYONE their miranda rights while being detained?

The statement "you have no rights, you're a minor," is incorrect. That being said, it is only in very limited circumstances that the police are...

Immigration: Is a class A misdemeanor theft control intent in Illinois a significant misdemeanor .

A few of the terms you use in your posting lead me to suspect that the theft case was not from Illinois. Regardless, your instinct that you should...

Attorney Ethics in a Order of Protection (OP) case & Criminal case..Is this unethical? Involves me, my girlfriend & her brother

You ask first whether this is an ethical violation. I have not tried to research the issue. and I do not know the answer. Your second question...

If I were to file an appeal, is it possible to receive a harsher sentence if convicted again?

Possible but unlikely. You cannot have your sentence increased just because you took an appeal. The most obvious bases for an increased sentence...

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In need of a Criminal Defense attorney who has experience with appeals.

One good idea is to look for lawyers who have served, and established good reputations, with the Colorado state public defender's appeal division.

I don't see what any kind of federal law has to do with a Florida state charge, but regardless of that my colleagues are right that you need to...

What can I do, when we have paid a lawyer for a service he did not complete. We told him what we needed him to do, he discarded

It sounds from your rather confusing posting as though the lawyer disagrees with you and believes that the time calculation of the mittimus is...

WHEN IS REPLY BRIEF DUE WHEN SEQUENCE OF EVENTS BEEN DISRUPTED BY APPELLEE?

My suggestion: first call the clerk to find out what the court thinks the due date is (I always do this anyway in the absence of a scheduling...