Blog Posts in May, 2011
Posted on May 31, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Orange County Register reports a Northern California teenager was arrested on suspicion of inappropriately touching a 17-year-old girl while dancing at California Adventure Park, police revealed ...
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Posted on May 27, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
Aside from knowing where they are located, you can find useful information on our website about DUI checkpoints . For example, did you know the law requires the cops to provide a place for you to turn ...
Continue reading "Memorial Day Weekend 2011: Illegal Roadblocks or Legal DUI Checkpoints" »
Posted on May 26, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Los Angeles Times reports the Department of Justice is deciding whether to indict former Senator John Edwards on criminal campaign finance charges related to a sex scandal. A federal grand jury in ...
Continue reading "John Edwards: Waiting for A Federal Indictment" »
Posted on May 25, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
We will take credit for the impeccable timing of yesterday's blog post about smuggling, transporting, and harboring aliens. As Reuters reports , 3 employees of tough-talking Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio ...
Continue reading "Sheriff Joe Arpaio Discovers Smugglers" »
Posted on May 24, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
Usually when you hear about immigration lawyers, you think Visas and Green Cards or deportation defense. The other immigration lawyers also practice in federal court , but we are not in immigration ...
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Posted on May 23, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The LA Times reports California Attorney General Kamala Harris is creating a 25-person task force to target mortgage fraud from small operations to corporations. Harris said in an interview with the ...
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Posted on May 17, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
Registered Sex Offender and The Uneven Application in California Courts What started out as a supposedly narrow concept, designed to protect the public from dangerous sex offenders, has turned out to ...
Continue reading "Sex Offender Registration Is Not Appropriate In All Sex Cases" »
Posted on May 14, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Los Angeles Times reports Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the chief of the International Monetary Fund and possible candidate for president of France, was escorted off an Air France flight at John F. ...
Continue reading "IMF Managing Director Accused (not charged) With Sexual Assault" »
Posted on May 14, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Los Angeles Times reports two suspects have been arrested for an an illegal marijuana cultivation operation in the San Gabriel Valley. The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department claims plants and dried ...
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Posted on May 14, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
ESPN.com reports NHL veteran and ESPN analyst Matthew Barnaby was arrested in connection with a " domestic incident " that involved two victims Friday evening, according to Amherst, N.Y., police. ...
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Posted on May 14, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The OC Weekly reported 5 people were arrested in what the Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) hails as its first case against the parents of children who have been chronically truant ...
Continue reading "Parents of Truants Arrested and Charged in Orange County" »
Posted on May 13, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Daily Pilot reports Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter J. Wilson issued a gag order in the misdemeanor criminal trial of 11 college students accused of disrupting a speech by the Israeli ...
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Posted on May 13, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
A DUI checkpoint is scheduled for this weekend in North Long Beach. The Long Beach Police Department will conduct the checkpoint, which will screen for impaired drivers and those driving on suspended ...
Continue reading "DUI Checkpoint in Long Beach May 14-15" »
Posted on May 13, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Huntington Beach Independent reports Huntington Beach Councilman Matthew Harper wants to ban sex offenders from city parks and beaches. Harper plans to present his proposal during Monday's ...
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Posted on May 13, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Los Angeles Times reports a Los Angeles police detective has been arrested and charged with theft and securities fraud by the San Bernardino District Attorney's Office for conning fellow cops and ...
Continue reading "Ex-LAPD Detective Charged with Large-Scale Theft Crimes" »
Posted on May 12, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Los Angeles Times reports former ESPN sports personality Jay Mariotti has been charged by the Los Angeles District Attorney with three domestic violence related felonies -- stalking, domestic ...
Continue reading "Former ESPN Personality Faces New Domestic Violence Felonies While On Probation" »
Posted on May 11, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich and Wagner
Defending people against the massive assault by the Federal Government called the War on Drugs in drug possession, drug trafficking , possession with intent to distribute, and conspiracy to distribute ...
Continue reading "Drug Crime Defense: The Myth of the Infallible Drug Sniffing Dog" »
Posted on May 10, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The term white collar crime generally refers to a nonviolent crimes prosecuted in California courts or at the Federal level for theft, deceit, concealment or other fraudulent activity, often in a ...
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Posted on May 9, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Plain View exception to the warrant requirement may occur in drug crimes or when pulled over for a traffic stop. For the prosecutors and the police to use the plain view exception to the warrant ...
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Posted on May 8, 2011 By Gold, Leftwich & Wagner
The Long Beach Press Telegram reports a Long Beach man, who just also happens to be a Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy, has been accused of sex crimes with a minor. His arraignment was in the Los Angeles ...
Continue reading "Sex Crimes in California: Age of participants" »