Legal Financial Obligations Can Hurt. Imagine paying a fine…for 25 years. It can happen, and the Washington Supreme Court just did something about it. The Court has ruled that two Pierce County defendants will get new sentence hearings because the judges in those...
Month: March 2015
Fight a Traffic Ticket – By a Traffic Ticket Attorney
Fight your ticket. Are you one of the 35 million people who receive a traffic ticket each year? Would you like to know how ot fight a traffic ticket? Read on. Of the 35 million drivers issued tickets each year only 5% are actually contested. About half are dismissed...
Tacoma Municipal Court
Tacoma Municipal Court Judges hear criminal, criminal traffic, and infraction cases. A misdemeanor is often regarded as a minor criminal offense. A simple misdemeanor carries penalties of up to 90 days in custody and a fine of up to $1,000.00. RCW 9A.20.021. A gross...
You Should Hire an Attorney
Kevin McGill, criminal trash collector, Left, and his prosecutor, Right. How’d you like to go to jail for picking up garbage. 30 days of jail. What if picking up garbage was your job? Kevin McGill, a sanitation worker in an Atlanta suburb has been charged criminally...
Racing Can Be Fun
Reckless Driving Racing? Synopsis ~ Reckless Driving Racing is fun…and illegal. RCW 46.61.530 states that “No person or persons may race any motor vehicle or motor vehicles upon any public highway of this state. Racing is willfully comparing or contesting relative...
Negligent Driving
Some cops actually ticket guys like this. smh Synopsis Negligent Driving in the Second Degree charges are much easier to beat than you would think. A person commits negligent driving in the second degree when “he or she operates a motor vehicle in a manner that is...
Warrantless Searches
Prosecutors can snoop even if you’ve done nothing wrong. Your private records aren’t so private. A Washington law adopted in 1971 allows investigator’s to get a suspect’s bank, phone, email and other records without a search warrant. Prosecutors have been able to get...
Weed and Driving Okay?
False Advertising? If you want to avoid a car crash, trade a joint for that glass of wine. A study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) found that drivers who used marijuana were at a significantly lower risk for a crash than drivers who...