The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is considering banning background checks for restaurant employees in a bid to prevent discrimination and reduced recidivism rates. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission proposal will ban background criminal screenings on both current restaurant employees as well as job applicants. The Commission is likely to base its proposal on recommendations [...]
Monday, August 1, 2011
A California man has been sentenced to 70 months in prison after a conviction of insurance fraud. The sentence was handed down by a federal judge in New Jersey. The man had been charged with selling fraudulent insurance policies. In addition to the prison sentence, he will also pay restitution. The North Hollywood man was [...]
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
The outrage over the Casey Anthony verdict earlier this month has not just confined itself to Twitter and the blogosphere. Several states have seen a vast outpouring of public support for legislation that would make it a crime for parents to fail to report missing children. In California, that public support has resulted in several [...]
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
A northern California couple has admitted to their role in a multimillion dollar mortgage fraud scheme. 29-year-old Garet Griffith Gilliland III and his wife Nicole Magpusao were charged with money-laundering this week. Magpusao also plead guilty to one count of mail fraud. According to prosecutors, the couple inflated the prices of dozens of homes in [...]
Monday, May 9, 2011
San Diego criminal defense lawyers are calling it the biggest identity theft in history, not to mention one of the biggest Internet crimes of all time, but prominent hacker group Anonymous claims to have nothing to do with it. The group has denied that it was involved in the malicious attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network [...]
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Los Angeles criminal defense attorneys are closely following a case before the U.S. Supreme Court which could have serious implications for juvenile offenders. The US Supreme Court is considering a case that relates to the manner in which these suspects are interrogated. The court is deciding how law enforcement officers can determine that a juvenile [...]
Friday, April 1, 2011
The California Highway Patrol has confirmed that it is looking for a hit-and-run driver who fatally struck a pedestrian in Gold River, California. The victim, a popular male fashion model had just exited his car and was crossing the street, when he was struck. The driver fled the scene of the accident. According to the [...]
Friday, December 31, 2010
San Diego criminal defense attorneys are extremely familiar with how prosecutor misconduct can destroy an innocent person’s chances of justice. However, a new analysis by USA Today also shows that such misconduct by overzealous federal prosecutors can result in lower sentences for the accused. The analysis was based on tens of thousands of pages of [...]
Thursday, December 16, 2010
The cleanup of what the media has called a “bomb factory” house in a property that was rented by George Djura Jakubec, has now been completed. The last remnants of the house that included metal ash and debris have now been removed from the property. According to the county authorities, most of the waste has [...]
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Those who believe long-term incarceration is the only effective way of dealing with persons convicted of crimes, should read a new Los Angeles Times account of a court program that allows women convicts to turn their lives around. The report centers on collaborative problem-solving courts, which offer female convicts a chance to rehabilitate themselves by [...]
Monday, August 8, 2011
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