San Jose Criminal Lawyer

The US House Subcommittee renewed the Byrne Justice Assistance grant program last week. The program while politically popular, sparks controversy as it has been linked to racial disparities, civil rights abuse, and police corruption. The program will go before the House Judiciary Committee today.
Twenty criminal justice and civil rights groups signed a letter to the […]

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A man who robbed a little girl’s lemonade stand yesterday is now jailed. Dominique Morefield and her friends set up a lemonade stand when a man came up and demanded their money. After grabbing the cash, he took off running, but the little entrepreneurs were not going to let him get away.
They chased after him […]

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A woman facing murder charges has been acquitted of the charges after a judge ruled the killing self-defense. Joy Medley, the wife of a Marine, spent six months in jail and found her way onto the Naval Criminal Investigative Service’s “Most Wanted” list of fugitives for some time before her trial.
Last Thursday, Medley was acquitted […]

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The finance manager of Toyota of Colchester was acquitted Tuesday of embezzlement charges in connection with a scheme which cost the dealership over $300,000. Orrin Alford, 30, had been charged on two counts of first-degree larceny and one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny. However, Alford and his attorney maintained that he had known […]

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Psychiatrist Charles Grade was facing sexual assault charges in a case brought by a former patient. Grade was cleared by a jury on three counts of sexual exploitation by a therapist. During the trial, Grade testified that the statements he made to police folloing his arrest were taken out of context and used to make […]

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