Fresno, CA
Criminal defense Lawyer at Fresno, CA
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense, Federal Crime
In a decision that strikes a blow to the constitutional rights of all U.S. citizens, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled 5-4 thatsuspects during pre-custodial questioning must expressly invoke their ...
See Full GuideControversy erupted inBakersfield, California after detectives confiscated cellphones with video recordings of police allegedly beating a man to death. Husband and father David Sal Silva, 33, died last...
See Full GuideA Sacramento woman was recentlysentenced to three years and one month in federal prison for tax fraudin relation to a scheme in which she attempted to obtain tax refunds by filing false tax returns. Ac...
See Full GuideThe owner of a tobacco distributing company inSan Diego, California was recently sentenced to four years in federal prison for excise tax fraud. Salam Kalasho, 43 of El Cajon, had pleaded guilty to tak...
See Full GuideThe Supreme Court recently ruled unanimously that atrained police dogs alert gives an officer sufficient probable cause to conduct a searchof a suspects vehicle during a lawful stop. The case (Florida ...
See Full GuideFormer Illinois CongressmanJesse Jackson, Jr. recently pleaded guilty in federal court to misusing campaign fundstotaling $750,000. Jackson, 47, who is the son of famous civil rights activist Jess Jack...
See Full GuideHomicides committed in Fresno increased in 2012with a total number of murders reaching a level not seen since 2007, according to a report in the Fresno Bee. Police Chief Jerry Dyer said that murders ro...
See Full GuideFederal authorities have arrested a woman in New York for allegedlyusing Facebook to pose as a relative of one of child victims of the Newtown, Connecticut shootingin order to solicit donations. Nouel ...
See Full GuideSan Diego Superior Court Judge Peter Deddeh recently ruled that adefendant in an attempted murder trial who slashed his lawyers face must serve as his own lawyerfor the remainder of the trial. In early...
See Full GuideIn May we discussed a decision by the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals which ruled that an Illinois law prohibiting citizens from recording police violated the First Amendments free-speech provisi...
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