Schwartz & Powell, the most experienced and accomplished homicide or murder criminal defense lawyers in Ventura County, have done it again.
Robert I. "Bobby" Schwartz's client was found not guilty of murder in the first degree when so charged along with a gang special allegation. His client was facing life in prison without possibility of parole.
On February 21, 2012, the United States Supreme Court in the case of Messerschmidt v. Millender granted civil lawsuit immunity to police officers executing an invalid search warrant.
Many years ago most juvenile crimes were not severely punished.
Federal sentences for drug offenses involving crack cocaine may now be reexamined by federal courts.
Many of your most private thoughts may be stored in your cell phones. Cell phones not only connect you to others, but to the extent you use yours to email or text others, your cell phone may reveal your opinions, intentions and actions regarding a wide variety of subjects.
Many people don’t know that his first “hung jury” doesn’t prevent retrial except in very discrete and unusual ways. Double Jeopardy doesn’t bar second prosecution because first prosecution didn’t end with a verdict.
California’s death penalty system costs a bloody fortune to sustain. Arguably, the system does not provide much bang for its buck. California taxpayers paid over $4 billion dollars from 1978 on to maintain the system.
California has abandoned the notion that juvenile offenders in serious matters should be treated differently than adults. Now, for serious crimes, children of 14 years old can be tried as adults and suffer the same penalties as adults.
Everybody knows that California’s Compassionate Use Act, a State not Federal law, allows usage of marijuana if a physician prescribes it for a bona fide medical purpose. Possession of less than an ounce is an infraction if for personal use.
The public’s dissatisfaction with the the death penalty continues. For various reasons, spending $4 billion to execute 13 people since 1978 doesn’t seem like such a good deal to many folks out there anymore.
Every now and then the light bulb goes off in some politician’s mind that it would be a great idea to try enemy combatants in civilian criminal courts.
Is anybody surprised to learn that racial minorities receive the ultimate sentence more than others convicted of the same type of homicides?
The Death Penalty may be on the ballot in November for an electoral thumbs up or down. Under California’s initiative process, the question to abolish or maintain the Death Penalty will be left to voters to decide.
