Defendant California Criminal Cases Involving Informants Sometimes when arrested for a crime in California, it is quite common for police to use confidential and non-confidential informants when conducting a criminal investigation. Certain legal issues arise when an arrest is made and charges are filed against someone accused of a crime based on the use of [...]
Defending Drug Charges in California Whether a person is caught with a recreational amount of drugs or with a large amount of methamphetamine, they may be facing a substantial prison sentence in a California state prison. In many instances when a person in California is charged with possession for sale of drugs in California they [...]
When arrested in California on criminal charges many defendants’ first call is not to an attorney but rather to a bail bondsman in hopes of getting out of jail immediately. Typically, a bail bonds company in California will require a defendant in custody to come up with 10% of the actual scheduled bail. Even in [...]
In most cases involving drug charges, a criminal defense attorney in California will always analyze whether the search and ultimate seizure of drugs was lawful. Under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, persons have the right to be free from unlawful searches and seizures. In most cases an unlawful search will occur where [...]
CA proposition 47 and drug possession charges and the possibility of dismissals or reductions of these crimes is something about which everyone either accused or convicted of a drug crime in California ought to seek legal advice and counseling. With the passage of proposition 47 in California, felony charges for certain drug possession charges are [...]