When Can the Cops Search My Car?
The 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects your right to be free from unlawful searches and seizures. That means the cops can’t search your body, your house, your purse, your man-bag, or your vehicle unless they have “probable cause,” or in some cases, “reasonable suspicion” (reasonable suspicion is something less than probable cause). Every […]
The importance of a DUI Lawyer doing the Widmark calculation and questioning assumptions.
It’s important to know how to do a widmark calculation manually. By doing this, you will know where they expert will be and what the prosecutor will ask. The most common calculations are number of drinks and what will a person alcohol level be with this amount of drinks, time, weight, etc, and the retro […]
Obama’s New Immigration Policy
On Friday June 15, 2012, President Obama’s administration announced the largest change in US Immigration policy in decades. Â After years of stalled talks about the dream act, immigration reform, and amnesty; reality hit the fan in about 30 seconds on Friday. Â According to the press release on the US Department of Homeland Security website, […]
Cleaning up a California Criminal Record
As a California Criminal Defense Lawyer I get calls every day from people looking to clean up their criminal record.  Cleaning up a California criminal record can done for many reasons.  Most of the time the motivation to do something about an old criminal conviction in California comes from one of following factors: 1-Employment-Cleaning up […]
DUI Speed Enhancement
If you are facing DUI charges in California, I hope you weren’t driving too fast. What’s too fast?  Vehicle Code (VC) 23582 says that if you are guilty of a DUI and were driving 30 mph over the speed limit on a freeway, or 20 mph over the speed limit on any street or highway when […]
