How Sexual Battery Charges Affect Your College Career – Penal Code Section 243.4
How Sexual Battery Charges Affect Your College Career – Penal Code Section 243.4 College football fans in Tallahassee, Fla. are rejoicing today knowing that Jameis Winston, star quarterback of the top-ranked Florida State Seminoles and favorite to win the Heisman Trophy, won’t have to face sexual assault charges. His college career remains unaffected and he is on track to play in the biggest college football game of the year, the…
Read MoreNew Law Prohibits Asking About Criminal Convictions on State Job Applications
New Law Prohibits Asking About Criminal Convictions on State Job Applications On Oct. 11, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 218 clarifying what the government can ask you on state and local government job applications. With this newly signed law, California joins nine other states with similar legislation. Essentially, AB 218 prohibits state and local agencies from asking about criminal convictions on state job applications. The law bans state…
Read MoreDrug Treatment under Proposition 36 may still be Available after Previous Failures in California - PC 1201.1
Drug Treatment under Proposition 36 may still be Available after Previous Failures in California - PC 1201.1 In a recent California Court of Appeal case that should be of interest to anyone who has previously failed to complete drug treatment under Proposition 36 “Drug Treatment” laws¹, the court held that prior refusals to complete treatment does not disqualify eligibility in a future case. People v. Juhasz, California Court of Appeal,…
Read MoreMan Escapes Guilty Verdict after Involvement in Major Copyright Infringement Scheme
Man Escapes Guilty Verdict after Involvement in Major Copyright Infringement Scheme In the summer of 2003, owner of Super DVD, Julius Liu, was convicted of copyright infringement and trafficking in counterfeit labels. Liu’s company was involved in commercially replicating DVDs and CDs for various clients on a very large scale. While Liu was replicating these works, he was under the impression that all of his clients had permission from the…
Read MoreSpeed Exhibition Can Lead to Deadly Consequences – Vehicle Code Section 23109
Speed Exhibition Can Lead to Deadly Consequences – Vehicle Code Section 23109 Memorial Day will always be a time of solemn remembrance for the parents of five Irvine high school students killed in a gruesome car accident that investigators determined was caused by excessive speeding. Traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour on a downhill stretch of Jamboree Road, the teenager driving the vehicle lost control of the car…
Read MoreYou Could Kill Someone and Go to Jail for Talking or Texting While Driving – California Vehicle Code Sections 23123, 23124
You Could Kill Someone and Go to Jail for Talking or Texting While Driving – California Vehicle Code Sections 23123, 23124 Haverhill, Mass., February 2011 Aaron Deveau was only 17 years old when he struck and killed Donald Bowley, a 55-year old father of three and critically injured the deceased man’s girlfriend who was a passenger in the car Bowley had been driving. Aaron’s attention wasn’t focused on the road…
Read MoreU.S. Congress Close to Restrictions on International Travel for Sex Offenders – Amendment to House Resolution 2848
U.S. Congress Close to Restrictions on International Travel for Sex Offenders – Amendment to House Resolution 2848 Laws putting restrictions on international travel for sex offenders are proliferating across the United States. Many lawmakers say controlling where a sex offender may live and physically be increases public safety by making it more difficult for this unpopular segment of society to have access to “vulnerable” populations, namely children. Other legal practitioners…
Read MoreAmending California’s Lifetime Sex Offender Registry: Assembly Bill 702 (AB702)
Amending California’s Lifetime Sex Offender Registry: Assembly Bill 702 (AB702) In February, Chairman of the California Assembly Public Safety Committee, Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (Democrat, 17th District – San Francisco County), introduced Assembly Bill 702. AB 702 would have amended California’s Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA), which is currently a lifetime requirement for anyone required to register as a sex offender pursuant to Penal Code sections 290 and 290.006. This bill…
Read MoreCan an Illegal Immigrant Practice Law in California?
Can an Illegal Immigrant Practice Law in California? Sergio Garcia came to the United States when he was just 17 months old. He became a California resident permanently when he was 17 years old. He has been on a waiting list for almost 19 years to obtain a green card, which he was originally approved for because his father had one. Garcia was told the process to get his green…
Read MoreBreaking Bad Outage Sparks Controversy over Misuse of 911 – California Penal Code Section 148.3
Breaking Bad Outage Sparks Controversy over Misuse of 911 – California Penal Code Section 148.3 When you catch a meth kingpin in the act, it might be a good time to call 911. But when that meth-making drug mogul is really just Walter White in an episode of the popular television series "Breaking Bad," it is not necessary to call the emergency number. And when you can’t watch the latest…
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