Citizens of this country have the right to be protected from unreasonable searches by law enforcement. Your Fourth Amendment rights may save you from an unlawful conviction if you are informed and have skilled legal counsel. This is a complex area of law, but we cover the basics for you in this article. Any evidence […]
Category Archives: Criminal Defense
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you….These are the opening phrases of the infamous Miranda warning. If you have not heard these words in real life, you have likely heard them on television. You may even have watched a TV court case fall apart when […]
Do a Hate Crime, Do Hard Time In 2021, hate crimes in America rose to their highest level in twelve years. Along with the invasion of COVID-19, the virus that began taking its hold in China, hate crimes against Asians increased 150% between 2019 and 2020. The civil unrest related to the killings of George Floyd […]
The police have brought you in for interrogation. You are feeling a whole host of emotions: fear, anger, confusion, and you simply want to get out of the station and go home. Investigators want to get the interrogation over as quickly as possible, as well. They want to get the answers they need from you […]
In criminal trials, there is usually a question that looms large in the minds of defense attorneys. Should the defendant testify? Each defendant has their own quirks and challenges and they need to be examined on an individual basis. In this article, we give you some food for thought as to how to evaluate whether […]
Mandatory sentencing has gotten some bad press in Colorado lately. The high profile case of Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, the truck driver who was sentenced to 100 years in prison after a deadly accident has called the Colorado sentencing laws into question. (check out our podcast on the case here) The truck driver, who was sober at the […]
Colorado: Are You Too High to Drive? To the delight of many, marijuana is legal in Colorado. Anybody who has driven down I-25 has seen and smelled the clouds of pot smoke billowing out of driver’s windows in standstill traffic. Nonetheless, driving after smoking, vaping, or eating edibles is a highly punishable offense and carries […]
Unemployment fraud is a booming sector of crime in Colorado. Responding last year to the wave of springtime unemployment claims due to COVID, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment instituted policies to help people get payments with minimal inconvenience. This left the benefits system much more vulnerable to fraud than before, and along with […]
Probation is an alternative sentence in the United States criminal justice system. Many offenders are exposed to the possibility of jail or prison as penalties for their criminal cases, but probation is a way for an offender to remain in the community and go about their life without being jailed as long as they follow […]
Digital Identity Theft After some abatement in 2018, identity theft is on the rise again, in part because of how much of our business we now conduct online. In 2019, 3.2 million reports of identity theft were filed, and losses claimed as a result of the crime, according to the Federal Trade Commission, came to […]