My son was at a party that got busted. He was underage but told the cops he wasn't drinking. They gave everyone a ticket.

I don't have the statute or ordinance under which he is charged in front of me but I would guess that "knowingly" is a necessary element of the...

If you want to try to get it off your record you must file a petition to have it expunged. Otherwise it will be there forever.

Can I, a pro se, file a class action complaint against the Superior Court, Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court and the State Bar?

You can try but do not expect to have any better luck with this case than you did with the first one.

What is the name of the motion that can be filed if someone is picked up on warrant in one IL county, but has charges in another

I agree with my colleagues that no lawyer has any business looking over the shoulder of the attorney who is familiar with the case and who is...

When you know you are innocent of a crime or Judgement. Isn't it imperative to fight to have this corrected?

Socrates would have said no and would have insisted that it is your civic duty to accept the decision of the court, even though you might disagree...

The normal methods of review available would be direct appeal, state collateral review and then federal habeas corpus. If you have pursued all of...

When a case is reversed and remanded do the trial judge have to retry the case or does he have the final power to discharge?

That is going to depend on exactly what the appellate court ordered. One would have to be familiar with the case and to review the decision and...

The federal prosecutor is well aware both of the inherent unreliability of CI testimony and of the exceptional unreliabililty of certain individual...

My Miranda Rights were not read to me when i was tooken in for a DUI....Can my case be dropped..?

No, for two reasons. First because it is most unlikely that the police were under any obligation to give you the Miranda warnings. Second,...

A Michigan lawyer might know what is customary in your state, but just as a general thing unless state law provides otherwise I would think tht...