If a person is 18 years old and their partner is 15 years old, is that illegal?

If you are asking about sexual activity, it was illegal before and it's still illegal now. Any sexual activity with a person under 18 is...

Three strikes

First - the two priors need to qualify as strikes. Not every felony is a strike. I assume this is a California situation, but your terminology...

In the court of law, do things like being 18.5 or 18 make a difference?

I can only assume this is related to a prosecution/investigation for unlawful sexual intercourse under PC 261.5. What matters is three years or...

Do I still have to pay my civil claim

It's not a civil "fine" - it's a civil demand letter. California law allows a merchant to demand up to $500 following a theft incident. These...

Can a DA change a deal because you went from one attorney to the next after the prelim?

It may have nothing to do with their negotiating skills - but a plea at an early stage of the proceedings often gets a better deal. The...

RESENTENCING or is this correspondence nothing more than an amendment to his case with administrative changes ONLY

It sounds as though the court imposed 10 years for the 667(a) priors (5 years for each of the two), but a clerical error entered it incorrectly. It...

Fare evader citation on metro link, LA Co. I'm 64 and fully disabled with M.S. and in an electric scooter.

The wrong apartment number on the citation won't change anything. If they had your wrong address in the system and that's why you didn't get a...

Is there such a thing as a "Sentence Modification" lawyer in the state of CA?

His only avenue for any relief would be an appeal or a writ of some sort. He must file notice of appeal within 60 days of sentencing. And of...

Unfortunately, it is not like" traffic ticket". You were cited for a misdemeanor offense. There is nothing lower than that for this type of...

I have criminal convictions is there anything i can do in ciminal courts to get rid of my convictions for immigration purposes

There really isn't any mechanism to "remove" criminal convictions. California doesn't have an expungement law (Penal Code 1203.4 is what everybody...