Criminal Defense

Prosecutors and Judges in Washington State may soon be setting reasonable bail amounts in criminal cases. The United States Justice Department recently admitted that holding defendants simply because they can’t afford bail is likely unconstitutional. Criminal Rule 3.2...

The U.S. Supreme Court is gradually eroding your 4th Amendment rights. Recent opinions give police broader powers to arrest citizens even if they are not breaking the law. Washington State has stronger protections against illegal search and seizure but, Prosecutors...

Freddie Gray’s Police Officers Freddie Gray died just one week after injuries sustained at the hands of Baltimore Police Officers sparking riots and protests throughout the City of Baltimore. His death raises many questions about what constitutes probable cause to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

2A Rights and Lautenberg The Lautenberg Amendment to the Federal Gun Control Act of 1968 became effective in 1996,  and makes it a felony for anyone convicted of a “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” (DV) to ship, transport, possess, or receive firearms or...

Eyewitnesses often help convict innocent people. Eyewitnesses suck. They suck so much because they are the single largest reason why innocent people get convicted of crimes they didn’t commit. According to the Innocence Project, Eyewitness misidentification played a...