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Posted on Feb 6, 2012 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
I don't have the time to meet at the park. Although I'm down with the movement. I wish it would have happened before I had gotten married and had kids. If some legal research would help, then ...
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Posted on Dec 31, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
For misdemeanor or felony DUI charges where the prosecutor has evidence that the officer looked at the driver's eyes and that meant something. William Leroy Schultz Sr. was convicted in a DUI jury ...
Continue reading "38 Reasons (Other Than Alcohol) Why You Could Fail The DUI Eye Test" »
Posted on Dec 27, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
CHP AND LASD DUI Arrests in Los Angeles As of 6:00 a.m. Christmas morning, 138 people were arrested for DUI or driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs in Los Angeles County by the CHP. Across ...
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Posted on Dec 26, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The California Supreme Court has said although under the United States Constitution a juvenile court hearing does not need all the requirements of an adult criminal trial or even of an administrative ...
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Posted on Dec 21, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
A child can be tried as an adult after a Fitness Hearing held in juvenile delinquency court. The District Attorney files a motion in juvenile delinquency court saying the child is not amenable to the ...
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Posted on Dec 20, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
LOS ANGELES DUI DEFENSE The Criminal Defense Strikeforce has learned The Avoid 100 anti-DUI Holiday Campaign in Los Angeles County resulted in the arrests for driving under the influence of drugs or ...
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Posted on Dec 16, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
In 2008 federal officials ordered the Los Angeles County Probation Department to make 41 changes to the 14 juvenile delinquency camps the Los Angeles County Probation Department oversees. The camps ...
Continue reading "Juvenile Delinquency Statistics in Los Angeles" »
Posted on Dec 14, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
California criminal law allows for the expungement of certain juvenile delinquency records: The arrest, juvenile court, probation department, and other agency records of a minor who had a juvenile ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
While most of the focus is on the Angels opening up the vault for Albert Pujols, the Dodgers made news today with the announcement that James Loney was arrested last month on suspicion of driving ...
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Posted on Oct 21, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
In a DUI Drug case look at each case closely. The district attorney must prove more than you drove a car with a drug in your blood. Even if there was an accident involved in the case, look closely at ...
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Posted on Oct 8, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The crime with the heavy-metal band-from-the-80's feel to it - Manslaughter , has been on my mind. It has been getting some notoriety in downtown Los Angeles in The Conrad Murray - Michael Jackson ...
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Posted on Aug 2, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Los Angeles Times reports Gold Beach, the strip of sand on Camp Pendleton where Marines train for amphibious assaults, is now the scene of a battle between nudists and state park rangers. A ...
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Posted on Jul 28, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
L.A. Now reports LAPD and prosecutors said they're trying to figure out whether to file criminal charges after a "near-riot" on Hollywood Boulevard during the "Electric Daisy Carnival Experience" ...
Continue reading "Electric Daisy Carnival Riot: Felony Vandalism" »
Posted on Jul 18, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Daily Pilot reports a string of car thefts took place Saturday morning, July 16, 2011 by two local teenagers in Orange County, California. Police said at just before 3 a.m., a 16-year-old Costa ...
Continue reading "Cops Arrest Teens In Orange County Stealing from Cars" »
Posted on Jul 17, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Los Angeles Times reports the criminal records system California relies on to stop child abusers from working at schools and violent felons from buying guns is so poorly maintained that it ...
Continue reading "California Criminal Database System is "Shoddy"" »
Posted on Jul 12, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The LA Times reports United States Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole sent a June 29, 2011 memo to federal prosecutors about "multiple large-scale, privately-operated industrial marijuana ...
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Posted on Jul 11, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Los Angeles Times reports a retired Riverside police detective was arrested Friday, July 8, 2011 on suspicion of child molestation for allegedly abusing a child in 2003. The accused is now 73 ...
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Posted on Jul 5, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
A July 3, 2011 LA Times article reported the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that 16.3% of all drivers nationwide at night were on various legal and illegal impairing drugs, half ...
Continue reading "Cops Looking To Catch Marijuana DUIs" »
Posted on Jul 4, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The LA Times reports a growing number of Los Angeles police officers who have used excessive force, driven while intoxicated , falsely imprisoned people or committed other serious misconduct are being ...
Continue reading "LAPD officers can get 3 or 4 DUIs before getting fired: Chief blames it on the Union" »
Posted on Jul 2, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The July 4, 2011 holiday weekend begins. Law enforcement is on the hunt for drunk drivers. Cops are looking to arrest as many people as possible. To catch drunk drivers DUI Sobriety Checkpoints will ...
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Posted on Jun 17, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Los Angeles Times reports the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in 2009 investigated allegations that Shaquille O'Neal was connected to a beating, robbery and kidnapping by Main Street Crips ...
Continue reading "Criminal Defense Strikeforce Lawyer Curt Leftwich Involved in Shaq Kidnapping Case" »
Posted on Jun 16, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Los Angeles Times reports a man accused of stealing a nearly $1.4-million tax refund check from billionaire Irvine Company Chairman Donald Bren has pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud . He ...
Continue reading "Man Guilty of Bank Fraud: Deposits Donald Bren's Tax Refund" »
Posted on Jun 13, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Contra Costa Times reports former New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Lenny Dykstra pleaded not guilty today to federal charges , one week after he was charged by the Los Angeles ...
Continue reading "Nails Pleads Not Guilty In 13-Count Federal Case" »
Posted on Jun 10, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
We all know exigent circumstances rule can be the basis for allowing the warrantless entry by law enforcement. For example, in a criminal trial the prosecutor could show that even though the cops did ...
Continue reading "Warrantless Searches in California Sneaking Through the California Legislature" »
Posted on Jun 6, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
Any criminal defense attorney's blog would be incomplete without an update about the recent drug scandal in the Bay Area. We in Southern California give credit to our Northern California neighbors for ...
Continue reading "The ex-San Francisco criminalist turned criminal" »