If you were convicted of a criminal offense in California, either through accepting a guilty plea agreement or at trial, you may have been sentenced to a lengthy term of probation. Probation can be restrictive, costly, and time-consuming. In some cases, you may be able to terminate your probation early “Can I Finish My Probation Early in California?”
Can I Drink Alcohol While on Probation in San Diego?
Whether you have been convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony in San Diego you could receive time in jail or in a state prison. Even minor crimes could result in jail time, though they rarely do. More often, a defendant convicted of a misdemeanor and even some felonies is “Can I Drink Alcohol While on Probation in San Diego?”
Curfew Law in San Diego: Can You Violate a Curfew for Working?
More than 500 cities in the U.S. have curfew laws that limit movement of minors between certain hours. San Diego is one of them. The purpose of a curfew is to protect children from dangerous people and circumstances that occur more frequently during late-night hours than during the day. If “Curfew Law in San Diego: Can You Violate a Curfew for Working?”
Will I Get Probation in San Diego?
Being accused of a crime can be an extremely frightening experience-particularly if it is the first time. Naturally, the first, and most important, concern for most defendants is whether or not they will have to spend any time in jail if they are convicted. As a result, one of the “Will I Get Probation in San Diego?”
Supreme Court Reverses Decision of a San Diego Federal Judge
The United States Supreme Court has held that a San Diego federal district court judge Barry Ted Moskowitz was not authorized to impose a prison sentence in order to promote the defendant’s rehabilitation. In reversing defendant’s criminal sentence, the court has ruled that Judge Moskowitz erroneously lengthened a prison term “Supreme Court Reverses Decision of a San Diego Federal Judge”
Defending Wobbler Offenses in San Diego
There are three categories of offenses in California: those that are punished as a felony, misdemeanor, or an infraction. A felony is a crime which is punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison. Every other crime or public offense is a misdemeanor except those offenses that are classified “Defending Wobbler Offenses in San Diego”
You May Be Allowed to Smoke Marijuana While on Felony Probation
Fifteen years after the passage Proposition 215, the San Diego County Probation Department is just now adopting a set of rules on how they will handle sentencing recommendations for medical marijuana patients who have felony probation matters. The Probation Department, of course, makes written recommendations to felony sentencing judges on “You May Be Allowed to Smoke Marijuana While on Felony Probation”
San Diego Judge Sentences Man to Jail for Impersonating a Doctor
A 75-year-old San Diego man, Kurt Walter Donsbach, has been sentenced to a year in a county jail and ordered to serve probation for practicing medicine in California without a license. The terms and conditions of his probation, among other things, prohibit Mr. Donsbach from referring to himself as a “San Diego Judge Sentences Man to Jail for Impersonating a Doctor”
Life Imprisonment without Parole is illegal in Non-Murder Juvenile Matters
The United States Supreme Court in a deeply divided opinion reversed a conviction of a 16-year old minor who was sentenced to life without parole (LWOP) for a non-homicide Florida offense of home invasion robbery. In Graham v. Florida, the court held that a sentence of LWOP for any juvenile “Life Imprisonment without Parole is illegal in Non-Murder Juvenile Matters”
Roman Polanski has a Fighting Chance and Nothing to Lose
The man famous for his Hollywood movies, murdered wife, and life as a fugitive may be extradited from Switzerland to a Los Angeles, California courtroom. Polanski faces sentencing in a felony sex case over three decades old. He fled the United States jurisdiction after he pleaded guilty and before the sentencing hearing. He has “Roman Polanski has a Fighting Chance and Nothing to Lose”