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Domenic Lombardo, San Diego Criminal Defense Lawyer
In order to be convicted of misappropriating public funds, the prosecution must prove that a person was charged with receipt, safekeeping, transfer, or disbursement of public monies, and then appropriated the funds for his own personal use. Money is public money depending on the official character in which the money “Operators of Private Foster Home Misappropriate Public Funds”
Domenic Lombardo, San Diego Criminal Defense Lawyer
In 1996, voters passed the Compassionate Use Act (CUA) to ensure that seriously ill Californians were able to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes, and to ensure that patients and caregivers were not going to be criminally prosecuted for using marijuana. The Legislature then enacted the Medical Marijuana Program “Large Marijuana Collectives Protected from Prosecution”
Domenic Lombardo, San Diego Criminal Defense Lawyer
The Sixth Amendment guarantees a person accused of a crime the right to a fair trial, this includes the right to effective assistance of counsel at trial. Earlier this year, the United States Supreme Court held that the right to effective assistance of counsel applies to any critical stage of “Malpractice for not Advising Client of Possible 25-Year Sentence”
Domenic Lombardo, San Diego Criminal Defense Lawyer
In the 1980s, there was an explosion of gang related crimes in California. In 1988 the California Legislature responded by enacting the California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act, also known as the gang enhancements law. For anyone convicted of a felony, if the prosecution is also able to prove “Gang Enhancements”
Domenic Lombardo, San Diego Criminal Defense Lawyer
The Superior Court of San Diego recently decided that a juvenile court can incarcerate a minor during non-school hours for being truant. The minor in the case before the court was 12 years old and had missed several days of school. The juvenile court ordered her to attend school, obey “Court Incarcerates Truant Kids”
Domenic Lombardo, San Diego Criminal Defense Lawyer
Sentencing courts have been given the green light in federal criminal cases to modify the terms of supervised release to include a sexual offender assessment whenever a defendant has a prior sexual offense conviction, even if the conviction is twelve years old. In a case recently decided by the Ninth “Court Approves Sex Offender Assessment on 12 Year Old Conviction”
Domenic Lombardo, San Diego Criminal Defense Lawyer
Drug crimes are regulated by state and federal laws. Many states, including California, have based their laws on the federal Controlled Substances Act. This Act regulates the manufacture, import, possession, use and distribution of certain substances. The Act categorizes all federally regulated substances into one of five “schedules.” The category, “Classifications of Drugs and Related Crimes”
Domenic Lombardo, San Diego Criminal Defense Lawyer
The California Supreme Court recently held that imposing consecutive term-of-year sentences resulting in a 110 year prison sentence on a juvenile for a non-homicide offense is cruel and unusual punishment. In 2010, the United States Supreme Court held that sentencing a juvenile offender to life imprisonment without parole for a “110 Years for a Juvenile Is Cruel and Unusual Punishment”
Domenic Lombardo, San Diego Criminal Defense Lawyer
In an extreme and confusing departure from a long line of precedent, the California Supreme Court recently held that a trial court’s failure to give a standard reasonable doubt instruction, in fact, its failure to give any written reasonable doubt instruction at all, was harmless error and did not require “Failure to Give Reasonable Doubt Instruction May Not Matter”
Domenic Lombardo, San Diego Criminal Defense Lawyer
The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution states that people have the right to privacy and that extends to the right against unreasonable searches and seizures. Police are not permitted to search a person without reasonable suspicion or probable cause, and they cannot search a home without probable cause and a “Is That Dog Sniffing Your Front Door Violating Your Privacy?”