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Posted on Sep 26, 2011 By Robert Bernstein
The son of actor Ryan O'Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett, Redmond O'Neal, has been in trouble with the law before. He has been battling drug addiction since he was a teen and has been in and ...
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Posted on Sep 23, 2011 By Robert Bernstein
The operator of a South Los Angeles day-care center has been convicted of molesting her 13-year-old godson. Last December, Chelsea McClelland was arrested after police found her having sex with the ...
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Posted on Sep 21, 2011 By Robert Bernstein
"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis and his bodyguard have been charged with multiple misdemeanors, including false imprisonment, assault and impersonating a public officer, stemming from ...
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Posted on Sep 19, 2011 By Robert Bernstein
If you have been charged with a crime, it is essential that you hire an attorney who knows how to aggressively defend your case. Representing yourself in a criminal case is never a good idea, as one ...
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Posted on Sep 16, 2011 By Robert Bernstein
Clark Gable's grandson, Clark Gable III, was arrested in July after allegedly shining a laser on a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter, momentarily blinding the officers. The officers in the ...
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Posted on Sep 14, 2011 By Robert Bernstein
A California woman has been arrested after committing battery, criminal threats and a hate crime against her son's elementary school principal. The principal, Evangelina Ramos, had recently ...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
An Orange County woman, Catherine Becker, allegedly drugged her husband's dinner, tied him to their bed, and when he awoke, she sliced off his penis with a knife and dropped it down an active ...
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Posted on Jul 22, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
Jason Dulay was arrested in 2010 after a man was fatally shot during an attempted robbery of Dulay's room at a Harbor Gateway hotel where he had been stashing firearms, ammunition and ...
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Posted on Jun 22, 2011 By Law Offices of Robert M. Bernstein
Jay Mariotti, former ESPN sports personality, was already on probation in connection with a misdemeanor domestic-violence case from August 2010, when he was recently charged by the Los Angeles ...
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Posted on May 19, 2011 By Robert M. Bernstein
A 40-year-old DreamWorks animator, who is credited on films such as "Kung Fu Panda," "Bee Movie" and "Madagascar 2," recently pled not guilty to beating a neighbor's muzzled dog with a hammer, an ...
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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 ...
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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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Posted on Mar 30, 2011 By Criminal Defense
A Hermosa Beach woman, Debra Louise Brass, sold dozens of fake Lady Gaga tickets on Craigslist last summer. She has been charged with Grand Theft. Police learned about the phony tickets from a woman ...
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Posted on Dec 20, 2010 By Attorney Robert Bernstein
Possession of Less Than an Ounce of Marijuana is Now an Infraction: Under current California law, the possession of any amount of marijuana is charged as a criminal misdemeanor. As of January 1, 2011, ...
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Posted on Nov 18, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
For the first time in 35 years, the penalties for the use of non-medical marijuana have been reduced. On September 30 th , Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill that downgrades the possession ...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
Andrew Thomas Gallo was found guilty of murder in connection with the April 9, 2009, DUI crash that killed Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two of his friends. Gallo was driving a mini-van at 65 ...
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Posted on Nov 4, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
24-year-old Alejandro Lorenzo Contreras was recently convicted of Possessing Child Pornography and Annoying and Molesting a 12-year-old girl at a local public library. Contreras pursued three girls ...
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Posted on Sep 16, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
To most people, the crimes of robbery, burglary and theft sound like they could be interchangeable. While these three offenses do have some similar aspects, under California law the elements of each ...
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