Blog Posts in April, 2011
Posted on Apr 29, 2011 By Tony McGinnis
Five Riverside teenagers, who are members of the gang known as South Side Mafia, have been charged in an alleged gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in a Moreno Valley park bathroom. Four of the boys are ...
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Posted on Apr 26, 2011 By Criminal Defense
The United States Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 ruling, recently stripped a $14 million award from a wrongfully convicted man who spent 14 years on death row and successfully sued New Orleans prosecutors ...
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Posted on Apr 23, 2011 By Criminal Defense
Over the last few years, California has enacted two laws to regulate registered sex offenders; Megan's Law, which was enacted in California in 2006, requires sex offenders who are released from prison ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2011 By Criminal Defense
Lawrence Taylor, former football player for the New York Giants, was arrested last May for hiring a 16-year-old girl who was prostituted out by a pimp at a Holiday Inn in New York. The 51-year-old was ...
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Posted on Apr 16, 2011 By Criminal Defense
The head of the Bureau of Prisons, the federal prison system, Harley Lappin, recently announced that he was retiring. He also informed his staff that he had been arrested and charged with driving ...
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Posted on Apr 13, 2011 By Criminal Defense
A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was recently arrested on a felony warrant at his Pasadena home in connection with an incident last April while he was still a law enforcement officer. He ...
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Posted on Apr 10, 2011 By Criminal Defense
The co-founder of the Asian Boyz gang was recently sentenced to life in prison without parole in connection with a spree of at least eight murders and 10 shootings a decade ago in the San Fernando and ...
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Posted on Apr 7, 2011 By Criminal Defense
In a recent letter to Apple, Google, and Research in Motion (BlackBerry), four democratic senators urged the companies to remove apps that provide users with information about DUI checkpoints. "With ...
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Posted on Apr 5, 2011 By Criminal Defense
Constantine Peter Kallas, a former U.S. immigration attorney, was recently sentenced to 17 years in prison after being found guilty of accepting cash bribes in exchange for letting illegal immigrants ...
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Posted on Apr 2, 2011 By Criminal Defense
Mel Gibson's latest legal trouble began last year when the mother of his daughter, Grigorieva, accused him of Domestic Violence after he threatened her with a gun and punched her in the left temple ...
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