Can someone please tell me what is the proper way to serve a witness in a criminal case in California?

You have to be personally served or service is no good. However, if you call the DA's office, you have acknowledged service and would then have to...

Federal court in a criminal defense we hired a private attorney was is head of the practice why he never appeared colleagues

You need to look at your retainer agreement to see what it promises. But what you are experiencing is not unusual. These large firms charge a...

Anything is possible I suppose, but without having a police report, knowing your criminal history and the policy of the local DA's office, it is...

I'm curious as to why the PD and a private attorney both advised him to plead guilty? And now the girl is recanting her statement because the...

What happens if attorney is gonna ask judge to be relieved from being his attorney right before sentencing ?

It seems rare for a judge to relieve an attorney after the trial but before sentencing, which suggests something happened that caused the attorney...

If you have been charged and convicted of a crime, my son took the plea, can you go back and have it reduced or change of plea?

Sorry but you can't just change charges. It sounds like the 1st charge was a 1st degree burglary, which can only be a felony and is a strike. So...

My sister is being charged with attempted murder and her public deffender is not doing his job and is acting very strange.

From what you've said, there is not much you can do. No experienced attorney is going to put that much work into a case and not get paid. Most...

What case law supports that Brady Discovery is suppose to be turned over to the defense, as soon as the DA has it?

Really impossible to answer on this forum. Since the Brady decision was issued in the early 1960's, there have been literally hundreds of state...

A Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department Criminal Supplemental report is not for public dissemination but an Incident report is?

You are not entitled to obain the police report or its supplemental report unless you are the victim. The simple reason is that if an attorney...

Need to check with the jail but I suspect the answer is no. Most jail do not allow people on probation or parole to visit inmates.