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Huntington Beach goes under a transformation every night. During the day, it is a row of stucco building shops, where one can buy beach towels, sunglasses, surfboards, and other beach essentials. At night, the bartenders ply their trade, serving hard liquor under neon and black light.
Bartenders have explained about all the fights they’ve had to break up, or instances of throwing naked men out of their clubs. It has become almost common for a drunk to try to get into the wrong house, causing the police to answer calls for robbery – and the ‘robber’ turns out to be someone so intoxicated, he doesn’t recognize his own house.
All of this leads to a greater problem – Huntington Beach is first in victims killed and injured in traffic accidents related to alcohol, when it comes to cities of its size in California. There are only half as many DUI arrests in Irvine, a college town of about the same size.
New York Sex Crime Lawyers note there have been 1,419 DUI arrests in Huntington Beach in 2010 – a number that everyone agrees is far too high. The City Council has been taking steps to curb the problem, such as eliminating beer pong or drink minimums. Police have begun tracking where people have been drinking before arrest. They were soon able to narrow it down to a three-block area, then down to one bar in particular that had 72 arrests from January 2009 to October 2010, which is ahead of the other bars in the city.
The residents are fed up with the urination, defecation, sex acts, and thefts that occur as a result of the nightly debauchery. One Huntington Beach resident told NY City Criminal Lawyers that she’s had to deal with screeching tires, the occasional fight, and people throwing refuse from liquor into her yard. She lives two blocks from the main drinking area.
This resident, a 34-year-old woman, has learned never to plant anything nice in her garden. She planted purple tulips and waited six long months for them to sprout. The day after they emerged, they were uprooted.
“You can’t leave anything out because drunk people will steal it”.
It is terrible there says a New York Robbery Lawyer

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A federal immigration judge denied an ex-police officer from Mexico asylum, a New York City Criminal Lawyer reported. The officer fled drug violence from Juarez, Mexico.

The ex-police officer’s case was heard late November 2010. The hearing was closed to the public at a federal immigration court in Dallas.

The 27-year-old ex-police officer said he refused to be bought off by drug cartels. His decision resulted in a gun battle in a city across from El Paso, Texas. The gunfight occurred in 2008. It is unclear if the man’s attorney will appeal the court’s decision, a reporter was told.

The increase in violence has sent many Mexicans seeking peaceful American pastures through asylum. Records show that there has been an increase for asylums being requested, an observer said. Few asylum requests are granted. If an individual is granted asylum, the United States would provide a refuge for the people to protect them.

Death tolls in Mexico have skyrocketed as Mexican officials are fighting to put an end to drugs. Many drug cartels have control over police efforts and they create fear in citizens. Mexico military and federal agents have been fighting against their own because of the corruption amongst the law enforcement. The drug war has made loyalties of people involved clear.

The federal Executive Office for Immigration Review spokeswoman said that the Dallas judge wrote an opinion about the case and submitted a letter to the review board. A copy of the letter was not disclosed to the public or the media in Staten Island and Suffolk, informed a New York Criminal Lawyer.

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An axe-wielding man outside an in-home daycare was shot and killed by three police officers in Prince George’s County, near the District of Colombia, authorities reported.
The incident occurred before 3 p.m. a county police spokesman told a New York Gun Crime Law Firms. Officers were sent to the daycare to address reports of an armed man on the premises.
The man with the axe was involved in a child custody battle and wanted to take his children out of the daycare, the police spokesman explained. The daycare provider had called the mother of the children, he said, and she told the provider to keep the children and not give them to their father.
The provider then called the police said many sources.
When the police arrived, the man with the axe was already gone. He returned, however, and at least one officer was still on the scene.
The next events are still being investigated. According to the police spokesman, the man got out of his vehicle, axe in hand, and approached the three officers.
The police spokesman explained to , “The officers felt threatened and they discharged their firearms.” The man had no motive for robbery or any theft
According to the police spokesman, the man was struck killed by the gunfire and pronounced dead on the scene. No one else was hurt in the incident.
Matters involving family can sometimes go too far, if they are allowed to do so. Before they get to that point, it’s best to have good counsel to talk to, someone who can provide a legal means to proceed, like a Nassau County Gun Crime Firm, before it’s too late.
Every story has two sides and it is the right of everyone to have their side of the story told when it comes to the law. Of course, to have that story told, it’s best to be represented by someone who has a firm knowledge of the law and the tenacity to face prosecutors without fear. That representative should be someone with not only skill, knowledge, and integrity, but the honest wish to see you prevail.

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He is accused of murdering his estranged wife and her boyfriend, the mother of his child, but was asked to give his opinion on where his 13-year-old daughter should live in the aftermath of the tragedy.
The father killed his estranged wife and her boyfriend a few days before the hearing, Orlando police told Manhattan Domestice Violence Law Firms. When the shooting occurred, the girl was in the shower.
The 13-year-old attended the hearing, but never went into the courtroom but Department of Children and Families representatives described her as “very strong” and “articulate”.
As of this writing, the girl will continue to live with her older sister. When it comes to most child custody hearings, the judge asks the parents or parents how they feel about the new living arrangements when it comes to their children.
In this case, the lawyers for both the state and the father were asked for input and both said the home was “stable’.
During questioning from the judge, the suspect began to cry. At one point, his sobbing was so loud, the judge had to pause the hearing. As he was led from the courtroom, the suspect was still weeping.
The girl has stated that she wants to be a police officer when she grows up.
The suspect was order by a judge to remain imprisoned without bond and to avoid seeing his daughter. An arraignment hearing has been set for April 28th.
Whether guilty or innocent, no matter what the crime, everyone has the right to proper defense. Some actions may seem indefensible, but there are still matters that can be considered, no matter how open and shut the case seems. Proper defense is always important, which means nothing less than a top Nassau County Domestic Violence Law Firm.
A criminal trial turns the life of not only the accused upside down, but the lives of friends and family, as well. When the trial is swift, and the defense has a good attorney, it serves the interests of everyone involved.

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A Texas woman is in jail after a bizarre incident which happened in late January. The woman claimed that after her two children helped her with some housecleaning, she decided to reward them (her children are 8 and 9 years old) with a ride on the car; a dangerous ride sitting on the trunk of her car, which the woman claimed her son had been begging for repeatedly for weeks. This case could have legal ramifications far outside of the state of Texas, said a New York Criminal Lawyer.

Responding to the woman’s claims that ride was intended as a reward, one officer involved in the case said, "Those may have been her intentions, but they were bad intentions. It's just dangerous. Having a child riding on a vehicle, it's like playing with a loaded gun. You just don't know what is going to happen.”

The judge seemed to agree with the officer’s sentiment, handing down charges from the bench of two counts of injury to a child- which the law says is a felony in Nassau and Suffolk counties in the third degree.

Compounding the problem, injuries to one of the children seem to suggest that they not only fell off the car, but were also possibly run over as well- a finding which has lead Child Protective Services to open an investigation as well. According to a well known NY Criminal Lawyer, the outcome of the CPS investigation could have a significant impact on the outcome of the criminal trial.

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Child support payments in Texas didn’t make it to the receiver because of a child support scam that has three suspects. The three pleaded guilty to the crime of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft last Tuesday. They worked for a company that processing child support payments for the state of Texas, reported a New York City Criminal Lawyer. The face 20 years in prison for these charges.

The 3 that plead guilty are among 13 involved in this case. The state of Texas had an 18.2 million dollar contract with Affiliated Computer Services for the child support payments. AFC issued Texas debit cards to child support recipient's. The 13 people accused in this case took advantage of this contract to pay themselves money, claims a reporter. They actually gave these debit cards to there friends and people they knew in order to pay themselves things.

ACS had been recently bought by Xerox. The new company has paid back the victims at least $275,000, according to the attorney generals office.

According to a New York Criminal Lawyer, 6 different employees accessed the computer system to get the victims addresses and other client information to give the stolen information to friends to call in and get the debit cards sent to them. This fraud and deception all happened between October 2008 and June 2010. Two of the defendants are still awaiting trial. The trial should be in March of this year. Nassau and Suffolk Counties have similar laws.

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People have all kinds of strange sexual proclivities and fantasies in this world, but most of them are relatively harmless, if a little off-putting. A spanking here and there isn’t going to really hurt anything, but some people seem to take things far more serious than other. A New York Criminal Lawyer explained that a 23 year old man placed a call to 911 services on the night of December 21, saying that he had accidentally shot his wife. When police arrived on scene, however, they got the full story.

The man and his 50 year old wife routinely engaged in sex play where the man would hold a gun to her head and threaten her life, the police were told by the man. He also said that he was unaware that the gun was loaded when he pulled the trigger while they were having sex. Now, according to the reporter, he is in custody and facing murder charges.

A New York Criminal Lawyer believes the man will most likely receive jail time even if he somehow manages to have his story corroborated. The intimacy that two people share in The Bronx and Staten Island, especially if their sexual proclivities are considered dangerous or perverse, is not likely to be announced to friends and family. It remains to be seen how the jury will respond in this case. If the sex fantasy scenario checks out, how responsible was the man in not checking for bullets before the scene took place? Further details are pending.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (ICE) arrested a man for intending to engage in sexual acts with two young girls. ICE agents posed as a mother willing to sell her two young girls, ages 5 and 8 to the man, states a New York Criminal Lawyer. The man, who was from Athens, Greece, was arrested by ICE agents after landing in the Denver airport. Since his arrest, he has pleaded not guilty to charges ranging from engaging in illicit conduct to aggravated sexual abuse.
ICE agents stage these kinds of operations all the time to catch sexual predators both online and off. As part of the Department of Homeland Security, ICE not only monitors immigration and customs stations in airports, the agency also works tirelessly to stop the illegal trafficking of children and child pornography. A program called "Operation Predator" was created to catch traffickers before children are harmed. Agents pose as parents, relatives or people involved in "sex tourism" to earn the trust of those interested in purchasing children. "Operation Predator" is a world-wide effort to stop sex trafficking.
Those found guilty of sex trafficking, distributing or purchasing child pornography may face up to 10 years in prison, even if this is their first offense. ICE has partnered with other law enforcement agencies throughout the world to stop the distribution of child pornography. Countries such as New Zealand, Italy, the United Kingdom and Australia have task forces in place to catch these types of criminals.
Since the Internet has made it much easier to send and receive images of child pornography, ICE agents must be more diligent in monitoring and acting when they suspect criminal activity. For example, authorities in New Zealand monitored the exchange of child pornography between a citizen of New Zealand and a citizen of the United States. Thanks to the efforts of New Zealand authorities and ICE, both suspects were arrested and charged, reports a New York Criminal Lawyer. Apparently, over 600 images were sent over the Internet, which was more than enough evidence to arrest and convict the men. The man from the U.S., a substitute teacher, was sentenced to eight years in prison.
ICE currently has 69 offices in 49 countries around the world including New York City and Westchester County. Its mission is to track and arrest those traveling for the purposes of sexually abusing children and to catch those sending images of child pornography over the Internet.

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A health care fraud conviction involving an Oakland woman was announced Wednesday by federal authorities, according to a NY Criminal Lawyer. This is a medicare scheme. She billed medicare for electric wheelchairs that are considered medically unnecessary.

A one week trial that took place in a California court led to a conviction of health care fraud for this 52 year old woman according to the Human Services department. She will soon be sentenced and could get up to ten years in prison. She will only be sentenced for 1 count as jurors through out the other two counts.

This lady took advantage of the low income elderly in order to bill Medicare for this equipment that was not wanted or needed. She approached people on the street, in nursing homes, and in their homes offering a free power wheelchair if they would hand over all the necessary identification cards including Medicare information. The trial included witnesses from that worked at the San Pablo Hotel, where this lady would sit for long periods of time just waiting for people to come through the lobby that she could approach about these power wheelchairs.

Testimony from an Oakland doctor indicated that this woman had falsified prescriptions that this doctor knew nothing about and for people he had never seen. These prescriptions involved the Los Angeles clinic.

She often sold this Medicare information to local companies that could bill for these electric wheelchairs. One company involved was Maydads Medical Supply of Arleta. This company billed almost a half million in these false claims over an18 month period of time. This type of fraud happens all over and in places like Nassau and Suffolk Counties also.

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Facing foreclosure on a family home or bankruptcy due to ever rising basic costs is a scary option, but help is available. However, one must consider from where the help is coming. A New York Criminal Lawyer accounts what happened when one attorney decided to help himself instead of his clients.
In Chicago one attorney with the help of his wife decided to defraud clients by promising to help with foreclosure and bankruptcy issues. Clients turned to this Chicago attorney for help in their hour of need and were taken for granted, money stolen, and homes foreclosed on even though payments had been made to the attorney. The attorney was using his client’s money to fund his own goals.
A Lawyer would be one option for representation and given the circumstances this may be the way that the Chicago attorney should precede. The attorney is charged with one count of mail fraud, six counts of bankruptcy fraud and one count of obstruction. His wife is charged with one count of obstruction, two counts of perjury, and one count of bankruptcy fraud. His wife is charged as an accomplice, even though she supposedly did not deal with the clients directly. However, the attorney’s wife lied by completing documents stating that one client had completed a credit counseling course that the client had not completed. The couple told clients that funds paid would be used to make mortgage payments or to complete Chapter 13 bankruptcy plans, but the funds were instead used for the couple’s own benefit, alleges a Criminal Lawyer in New York. It is said that a doctor makes the worst patient and this also holds true for attorneys. This Chicago based attorney should get help from a local Lawyer immediately.
If convicted mail fraud can carry a penalty of up to twenty years with restitution and a 250,000 dollar fine. Bankruptcy fraud in Brooklyn and Staten Island also carries a fine of 250,000 dollars and a maximum penalty of five years. Perjury only has a sentence of five years maximum in prison. The wife is charged with perjury because she allegedly lied under oath when asked if she had the power to speak on behalf of a client. The couple has been indicted by the Grand Jury, but has not yet gone to trial. Trial dates have not yet been released nor have any discussions of a plea or cooperation on behalf of the couple.

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A witness with a sharp eye saw something that may help in the case of an armored car robbery and murder, sources revealed to investigators. The witness saw the crimes take place – and he also saw an acquaintance of his, the suspect, at the scene two weeks earlier, he testified in court.
Just hours after the 1994 robbery occurred, in which an armored car guard was killed, the witness said he was shown a number of photographs by Nassau police. One of these photographs was the suspect, who is now on trial, facing murder charges in federal court.
In the process of the trial, the witness said he told police he knew the suspect, but didn’t see him at the robbery. He didn’t mention he’d seen the suspect at the crime scene before, but that was easy to rationalize – the suspect was wearing a pig mask during the robbery, prosecutors informed New York Criminal Lawyers.
The suspect, who operates a gym in Dix Hills, is charged with the murder of the armored car guard and two of his own associates who he feared might tell the cops. One of these associates assisted in the robbery, while another sent police a recording that implicates the suspect.
The witness has his own problems with the law in both Staten Island and Westchester County. He didn’t tell everything he knew at first, which led to him pleading guilty to a charge of lying to a federal agent. He may go to prison for five years, himself. It is his hope his testimony might grant him some mercy form the court.
The witness had known the suspect for a few years and described their relationship as “cordial”.
“I got kind of nervous,” he explained to New York Criminal Lawyers, referring to when he was shown the suspect’s photo. “If he had participated, then he saw me –“
He later told the suspect he had seen the police photograph.
“I wanted him to know that I never said anything about seeing him there in the weeks prior. He just looked at me and walked away… I guess I was just looking for reassurance. I wanted it to be good.”

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Investigators have seized the alleged client list of a retired chief probation officer after his arrest late last week, when he was charged with cocaine trafficking. The suspect was arraigned on Monday at the Dukes County Courthouse and pled not guilty to trafficking more than 28 grams of cocaine, a class-b-substance, according to court documents found by a New York City Criminal Lawyer.
The suspect’s ledger allegedly contained the names of 20 persons, along with corresponding coke order amounts and drug debts. The Sargent further revealed that police have been getting tips about the suspect “for years.”
The 65-year-old former probation officer was arrested by members of the Martha’s Vineyard Drug Task Force and Oak Bluffs Police Department on Friday, March 18 at approximately 4:30 p.m., after they arrived, armed with a search warrant, to search the suspect’s property. Officers at the scene found 39 packages of cocaine on the suspect and on his property, and also found cutting agents used to package the cocaine, according to court records obtained by investigators from The Bronx and Westchester County.
The suspect served 30 years as a chief probation officer, retiring in 2000 to Martha's Vineyard with his wife. Officers said he cooperated during the arrest, leading them to the location of drugs on both his property and his person, according to a statement of facts provided to the court.
The suspect admitted that he had sold cocaine to an individual that members of the Task Force and Police Department observed exiting the property just before the arrest, according to a statement gathered by a NYC Criminal Lawyer.
He was ordered to pay $500 bail and forfeit his passport on Monday and is scheduled to appear in court again on April 22.

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A New York Criminal Lawyer was told by immigrant officials that in Wisconsin the state had every county being a part of the immigration enforcement strategy. Federal officials announced to a New York Criminal Lawyer that they have developed an information system that would share details with each country so that people who are accused of criminal charges will be easily identifiable.
The immigration officials told the press that about thirty seven states were on board with this program. It is anticipated that by the year 2013, more states will become a part of this immigrant fingerprinting system so that even if the illegal immigrant moves to another state, their information will still be available.
Wisconsin is one of the states that joined the immigration program on a state and federal level. This means that when fingerprints are taken from an individual who is being charged with a crime, they will be put in custody and their criminal records checked.
Additionally, when someone gets charged with a crime in Suffolk and Westchester Counties, their information can be shared with the FBI, and other criminal records related to the FBI will show up. An immigration official told the NYC Criminal Lawyer that there is a lot of controversy around the subject and the state has to move carefully, but deliberately with this tough topic. A lot of citizens think that the system will only add to the frustration felt by many because innocent people may be affected by this. Officials from the law enforcement division do not agree with this idea.

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The Police indicate to a NY Criminal Lawyer that a woman in East Wallingford is facing charges of felony because she grows marijuana in her home. The woman claims that she was cultivating the marijuana to use for her son who was severely ill.
The woman, according to what the Police told the New York Criminal Lawyer, would not have to stand any trial because of this one reason. The newspaper media reported that the prosecutor of the state made a referral that the accused enter into a Court Diversion program. If she completes that program successfully, the accused will be free of the charges.
The Police reported to the New York Criminal Lawyer that the woman has been persuading the legal system that she does not deserve of any felony charges since her son is so ill and the marijuana is helping him. She confesses that according to the legal system, she is guilty, but for her son, she would do whatever it takes to help him to be well. She did all of this to save her son’s life as he patiently waited to get a kidney transplant. Every day, her son had to undergo dialysis. In The Bronx and Manhattan growing pot is illegal.
The prosecutors of the state did not agree with her, though, because it was not legal to grow the medical marijuana. This only occurred in the state of California. Had she grown the marijuana in small quantities and inside of her home, it would not be deemed illegal. The mother was glad to compromise instead to enter a diversion program.

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The Mississippi Lawmakers told a New York Criminal Lawyer that they are one step closer to reaching the same decision about immigration law that Arizona has implemented and adopted. What this means is that soon Mississippi law enforcement can stop people at traffic stop lights and elsewhere and ask them to show the appropriate immigration documents.
There are many who welcome this idea, but there are a lot of Mississippi residents that loathe the idea and consider it as a form of racism and profiling. According to the state reports, there was a lot of Hispanics that moved into Memphis, Mississippi in 1987. “A lot of these people are non-immigrants and do not have the right to stay in the country, said one Police Office to the New York Criminal Lawyer. A legislative bill is expected in Mississippi to hold every law professional such as the Police to check someone’s status of immigration if suspicious. People will also go through random checks even in places like Staten Island and Westchester County.
One resident of Mississippi is angry about it. She says she is an American and does not think that the Police should ask her of her immigrant status when they don’t ask people who come from Canada the same question.
However, a spokesperson explained that the Senate in Mississippi would get this bill passed. How it will work is that the police can ask for immigration records when they are involve with a traffic stop incident. The Senate wants to stop the threat of immigration and the problems that it causes.

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A Baiting Hollow bus accident resulted in one death and eight injuries. A collision on Sound Avenue between a tractor-trailer and a school bus for special-needs children was the cause of the tragedy.
A police chief told NY Criminal Lawyers the bus was from the Maryhaven Center of Hope in Port Jefferson and the tractor trailer was carrying sand. According to him, they sideswiped each other, their control hampered by the hilly, twisting two-lane road.
The Maryhaven Center of Hope has a program for people with special needs. According to one of their dispatchers, six students and two staff members were on the bus.
A spokeswoman for Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead informed New York Criminal Lawyers that it was an adult that was killed in the accident.
Five other victims, including the one who died, were transported to Peconic Bay Medical Center, according to the spokeswoman. The ages and condition of the other injured passengers has yet to be revealed.
A police lieutenant in Riverhead told reporters the fatality occurred on the minibus.
A spokeswoman for John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson said that there were four adult victims of the accident brought to her facility for treatment. According to her, all the injuries were not life-threatening and it was likely that the patients would all be released very soon. Police in New York City and Queens are studying this case.
One of the victims was transported by a Suffolk police helicopter. The stretch of road where the accident occurred was closed by Riverhead Police only minutes after the crash.
A witness who works in a nearby nursery told police that it wasn’t at all uncommon for vehicles to travel down the rural road at high speed. There was no evidence of drugs or alcohol so, DWI and DUI were not charged.
“You have to take your time and go slow,” she said.
One moment can change an entire life, even if they don’t result in criminal charges – but when they do, that is a dark time for both the accused and the family of the accused. New York Criminal Lawyers understand this and have the skill and discretion make a difficult time a little easier.

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An immigration official from the United States expressed concern to a New York Criminal Lawyer about the application that a CIA exile trainee filed in her jurisdiction. She noticed some red flags when she saw the answers that the exile put in his N400 form. When he was asked about whether or not he was a part of a government overthrow, he answered, “Yes.” When he was asked about his criminal history, he mentioned being imprisoned in Panama for four years.
The immigration official told the New York Criminal Lawyer that the answers to the questions eliminated him from being considered for such a prestigious status. In addition to those answers, it is to be noted that this CIA exile trainee had been arrested in the year 2002 with an accusation that he had plotted against Fidel Castro to assassinate him when he visited the country. However, he got convicted for a charge that was lesser.
The President pardoned his actions in 2004 and this action was thought of as being very controversial. According to the immigration official, these things are raising so many concerns in the judicial system. He was also accused of lying while he was under oath during his 2005 asylum hearing and his 2006 immigration and naturalization hearing.
The immigration official told the New York Criminal Lawyer that there were many confusions and errors during the trial as the defendant and his interpreter went back and forth from English to Spanish during the hearing. The defendant was also accused of not being truthful about how he came to the United States. The case is still ongoing.

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The death of a six-month-old baby girl is described by police as “very violent.” The Ngaruawahia infant died from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and probably at the hands of another.
The child was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) after suffering what police are calling “non-accidental injuries.” She died at Starship Hospital last Thursday after her life support was turned off.
A New York Criminal Attorney contacted a Senior Detective working the case who said the post mortem report showed that the injuries the child received were gruesome. "I would stress at this stage that the post mortem results are only provisional, but they give us some idea as to what sort of injuries she suffered during what was obviously a very violent death."
During her short life, the baby girl had been living with her 21-year-old mother, the mother’s 17-year-old brother, and the mother’s 21-year-old fiancé. Police interviewed the two men right after the baby was taken to the hospital.
A New York Criminal Lawyer reports that no arrests had been made, but Police are still investigating her death and waiting on final test and lab results.
The Senior Detective also said that the investigation was, so far, progressing well, but that they unfortunately still needed more information to conclusively figure out how the child died. "An innocent, 6-month-old baby is dead. She has died at the hands of another, and it is everyone's responsibility to ensure that someone is held accountable for her death."
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 11% of all TBIs are caused by attacks from others.
Even though the human brain can amazingly heal itself by creating new neurological pathways to accomplish lost tasks, some injuries are just too severe for the brain to heal. Such is the case with this child. Immediate care is needed, and when it is prevented, irreversible harm occurs.
TBI is the leading cause of death and disability in children and adults 1-year-old to 44-years-old, and it can occur when blunt force trauma is applied to the head or when something aggressively punctures the skull. It can and does occur in Manhattan and Queens.

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Police have arrested the person they believe perpetrated a violent robbery on February 25, New York Criminal Lawyer has learned. The 32-year old male was taken into custody about a mile from where the crime took place and without incident a week later as he walked along a city street. The arresting officer stated that when the suspect saw the officer that he did attempt to hide his face, but made no attempt to flee from the officer. There is no charge of gun possession.
The robbery, which occurred at a local discount store, was both brutal and distressing, and the local community pulled together and contributed to the arrest. The robbery occurred at about 9:30am on the morning of February 25, when the suspect entered the market while posing as a customer. The robber then grabbed the purse that was flung across the shoulder of a 71-year old female customer. During the process of the suspect fleeing the scene the victim had fallen to the floor, which caused her to bruise her ribs and break her finger and kneecap. She remained in the hospital for several days due to her injuries, but is expected to make a full recovery. Police in The Bronx and Queens would act in a similar manner.
Police officials have told all that this is one instance where the community really pulled together. Pictures from surveillance video, eyewitness descriptions of the robber, and tips from the community all contributed to the arrest. This may be considered as normal behavior for most communities, but this particular community has, at least in the past, had the attitude that “snitches need stitches” that actually prohibits cooperation with the police. It is believed that the fact that the victim was a 71-year old woman was a factor that overcame these attitudes.
There have been other similar robberies in the area recently and police are investigating as to whether the suspect may have a connection to those as well. Another robbery, while unrelated to this one, occurred within 15-minutes of the robbery this suspect was involved in, but was about 30-miles away.
Solving this case has been a boon for both the police department and the community as this was a particularly brutal case due to the victim’s age and the fact that this crime occurred during broad daylight, sources told the New York Criminal Lawyer.
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High-tech entrepreneur and Miami Beach businessman, Claudio Osorio filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this past Friday. Sources have also told a New York Criminal Lawyer that his wife also filed with the embattled Osorio. As part of this filing, the couple has listed assets of $35 million and debts of $13.5 million. There have been some reports; however, that the listing of assets may be questionable, as his former company, InnoVida, which he lost over allegations of misappropriating investor funds last year, is reported to be currently unable to pay debts totaling $2 million. It is alleged that Osorio transferred much of the company’s cash to offshore accounts before giving up control of the company.
Simply filing for protection from creditors in Chapter 11 bankruptcy will not necessarily absolve the Osorio’s from any allegations of possible wrongdoing, however. According to the sources who spoke with a insiders, the Osorio’s are facing numerous legal challenges from a growing list of neighbors, contractors, businesses, and banks, who are seeking to recover as much of their losses as possible. Judgments were already obtained in at least two lawsuits and are listed as debts in the Chapter 11 filing. One lawsuit was from a former neighbor from the exclusive subdivision the Osorio’s had lived. That judgment was for an undisclosed amount as it is still being contested. The monetary amount of the second judgment is listed in the bankruptcy filing. Judgment was awarded to a former contractor that had done work for the Osorio’s. The dollar amount listed in this suit is for $4 million. The Osorio’s bank accounts were garnished because of this verdict.
The NY Criminal Lawyer also learned that their credit card debt is listed at $250,000, which would indicate that the couple was living a lavish lifestyle based on falsehoods, as some of the creditors have commented.
Although many of the accusations against the entrepreneur are civil, there are ongoing criminal investigations into his business dealings as well. This could be a case of fraud. Many of the allegations surrounding his transfer of assets from his former company are included in a criminal investigation. There is also a criminal investigation into his business dealings in Switzerland, where he is reported to have a condominium, and it is believed that he may have transferred some of his assets into an account there. That investigation is being conducted by Swiss authorities as it would be in Manhattan and Queens.

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When an officer stops someone who is clearly intoxicated – smelling of alcohol, failing sobriety tests, and so forth, but refuses to allow a blood alcohol test, a police officer doesn’t really have much to go on. The officer will have to get a judge’s order to test the driver before the alcohol is gone.
Today, an officer can turn to Skype for help. Once such officer, in Palm Bay Florida, has used Skype five times between January and April of 2011, calling a judge with the internet video conferencing software.
“I typed up the warrant and connect with the judge using Skype while (the suspect) was still in the car,” the officer told New York Criminal Law Offices. It was his idea to use technology to speed up a search warrant for blood from drivers who are stopped on suspicion of impaired driving.
That Florida county is considering using Skype to help with driving-under-the-influence cases on a wider basis. In one particular case, a woman was shown to have twice the legal limit of alcohol in her blood, once the officer was allowed to test her. She was not only charged with DWI, she was already on probation for it.
“It’s like something out of ‘Star Trek,’” the officer said, as he spoke of the 15 minutes he talked to the judge on Skype.
So far, there is only one judge using Skype for warrants. Court officials explained to New York Criminal Law Offices that he was not allowed to comment.
Video technology like closed-circuit television has been in use in Brevard County, Florida for a while in bond hearings and first appearances at the jail. In these cases, the necessary documents are sent by fax and the judge can be seen on a large TV set near the bench. Video is also used to allow witnesses to testify when they are unavailable to be there in person.
Skype, being a video conference tool available on laptops and cellphones, can be of more use in the field and in places like Manhattan and Long Island, and can potentially save both time and money for law enforcement.

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An Addison County music teacher was arrested on federal child-pornography charges, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. The teacher told officials about the case to warn them in an effort to calm fears about the seriousness of the claims.
A NY City Criminal Lawyer revealed that there was no evidence that linked the teacher’s crimes to any of the local school children.
Classes at Bristol Elementary School and Robinson Elementary School in Starksboro, where the defendant divides his full-time job, were cancelled for the day, said a NYC Criminal Lawyer, but those in charge began to worry about how to tell the community of the issue and were extremely concerned what local parents and even children would have.
There was a letter meant to be sent home parents. "At this point in the investigation there is no evidence that supports that any of the children in our community were involved in any way," were the words used in the letter, signed by both the school principals. "You are your child's best mentor and guide through this difficult time. You must be the one to decide, if, how and when to discuss this with your child."
The school officials made a promise to parents and those in the community that they would keep everyone up to date on any additional information that arise involving the investigation. School Officials in Manhattan and Long Island would do the same.
The Superintendent was unsure how people would adjust to the news and didn’t know off hand if there would be a special school board meeting in either district; there is not one scheduled until April at the earliest.
The defendant turned himself in Thursday morning to the FBI, according to reports on Monday. The prosecutor in charge of the criminal case called on Wednesday and said his client either could be apprehended that night, or he could turn himself in at 9 a.m. Thursday.
Prosecutors sought to have the accused teacher jailed as a danger to the community and as a risk to leave town. He has restrictions placed on his computer use until his trial.

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Law enforcement officials told a New York Criminal Lawyer that a reputable Senator’s son from Illinois pled guilty to driving while intoxicated. The charge was a misdemeanor, but it was enough to embarrass the law maker and cause his son to receive a probation sentence with an order to get treatment for abuse of alcohol. He also received a fine of $1,250. “This was a slap on the wrist,” said one resident to an investigator . Most people think that if the accused was not the son of an Illinois Senator, he would have been charged to the full extent of the law. Many thought that it was a cover up of justice and wished that it would have gone the other way to teach the son a good lesson.
Police indicated that this is not the first time that the Senator’s son has been in trouble with the law. The Police gave the accused a citation that he was changing lanes. It was obviously because he had been drinking and driving while under the influence of alcohol.
All of this happened while he was driving his SUV and coming from a night out in downtown Chicago. It could have been in The Bronx or Brooklyn. When the police tested him, his blood alcohol level was way over the limit allowed legally. The Police told a NY Criminal Lawyer that court records showed that the accused had some run-ins with the law related to the same offense both in 2004 and 2008.
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On Wednesday, the former chief executive officer (CEO) of Qwest Communications, filed a lawsuit that alleges the lawyers who represented him during his insider-trading case overbilled him, a New York Criminal Lawyer has learned. The legal malpractice lawsuit was filed in state Superior Court in Newark, NJ, seeks punitive and compensatory damages totaling $25 million plus attorney’s fees. This is widely considered to be Grand Larceny.
The former CEO is currently located at a federal prison in Pennsylvania, serving a 70-month sentence for using insider information as a basis for selling $52 million in stock in his former employer, the NYC Criminal Lawyer was told. An appeals court also ordered him to pay a $19 million fine and to forfeit close to $45 million. His conviction was in 2007.
The former CEO’s current attorney has also informed the New York Grand Larceny Attorney that thanks to the law firm named in the suits failure to follow even the most “basic litigation procedures,” his client received not only strict fines, but also a lengthier prison sentence than what was necessary. The attorney also stated that due to these failures, the trial judge barred the defense’s sole expert witness. He also added that the case is sad, since his client not only received inadequate representation during his trial, but he was also overbilled in the process.
The lawsuit also includes allegations against the law firm for paying itself unreasonable and excessive fees from monies that it held in trust. It further claims that during the trial the law firm charged for in-room movies, meals, and underwear for the attorneys to the tune of several tens of thousands of dollars.
An appeal to reduce the amount of the fines that were imposed was dropped as part of a settlement between the former CEO and the SEC last month that included the SEC dropping a civil complaint against him. The SEC still has a pending complaint against former executives and employees of Qwest Communications, for what they say are there roles in the reporting of the company’s financial performance between 1999 and 2002.
Although legal malpractice lawsuits may seem like an insurmountable process, lawyers all over and in places like Long Island and Manhattan are supposed to maintain high ethics and integrity.

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A camp counselor committed suicide on the camp grounds, after becoming the subject of a sex abuse investigation. This summer camp was one attended by U.S. Senator Scott Brown in his youth.
The day after the investigation began, the counselor committed suicide. A 35-year-old man claimed the counselor molested him back in 1985. The accuser said he gained his inspiration to come forward from Senator Brown, who had recently revealed he was also molested as a boy in summer camp.
N York Criminal Lawyers have learned the counselor was also an assistant director and had been at the camp for several decades. He was found dead in his vehicle in a wooded area of Camp Good News, police sources said. The police have already ruled it a suicide.
“My client is saddened by the circumstances,” the lawyer of the accused explained. “He wanted to face the alleged perpetrator at a criminal trial.”
Senator Brown revealed early in 2011 that he was the victim of abuse at a summer camp when he was a boy, but he never said which camp it was. It was later learned that Brown did attend Camp Good News and that the camp wrote a letter of apology to the senator. The facts of the abuse were revealed the book “Against All Odds”.
Brown’s spokeswoman released a statement, stating, “Senator Brown is aware of the reported suicide at Camp Good News, but he wants to emphasize that he does not know the deceased and has never met him.”
The attorney of the accuser says he received two phone calls from adult men who also claimed the counselor abused them. The original accuser does not want to be identified. He says the abuse occurred when he was 10. In Long Island and Manhattan the accused does not have to reveal his or her identity until he or she is charged.
“There were red flags,” the attorney reported. “The questions remain: What did the supervisors know? When did they know? And what did they do about it?”
A former camp employee told Brooklyn Sex Crimes Lawyers he had notified camp administrators that the counselor had child pornography on his computer, but they did nothing. He also contacted the police in 2002, but nothing seemed to come of those allegations

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A former Maryland man was extradited from Eastern Europe in March 2011 to face rape charges from more than a decade ago. He recently appeared in court for a preliminary hearing.
The 51-year-old defendant is being held without bond. The charges against him are first- and second-degree rape, third-degree sex offense, first-degree assault, three counts of second-degree assault and two counts of false imprisonment. Queens Sex Crimes Lawyers are well versed in these kinds of cases.
A retired Maryland State Police investigator said the complaint was first issued on November 30, 2000.
“He said she sustained serious injury, and [the officer on the scene] called an ambulance,” the investigator said.
The woman was later interviewed at Washington County Hospital, where it was seen she had injuries such as scratches, bruises and swelling to her face. She had once been in a relationship with the defendant, but left him because of his tendency toward violence. Later, she resumed the relationship.
The day before the assault he became very angry with her over a scratch on a computer screen. He became “very romantic” after that, but she rejected his overtures, the investigator revealed to New York City Criminal Lawyers.
According to the woman, the defendant held her down and demanded to know if she had been in any other relationships while they were separated, then beat and choked her and said he was going to have sex with her. Judges in The Bronx and Brooklyn are known to be very harsh when sentencing defendants who are convicted of charges and crimes like this one.
“She was afraid to resist because she was in fear for her life,” the investigator testified.
The woman claimed she was bound with duct tape, a belt, and a necktie. She continued to struggle, at which point the defendant forced her to swallow pills. He only left after she promised to tell no one. She managed to free herself and ran into a trooper outside.
A warrant was issued, but the defendant had left for Germany and they refused to extradite him, according to reports. He was taken into custody in October 2010 when he was found in the Czech Republic. He had gone there to apply for a driver’s license.

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A prep school teacher has become what some consider to be “a parent’s worst nightmare” after pleading guilty to child pornography charges, sources told a Nassau County Sex Crimes Lawyers.
The 28-year-old teacher admitted to using an internet file-sharing program to download videos of children engaged in sexual activities.
“I did use it to download material considered to be child pornography,” the ex-teacher told a federal district judge as the ex-teacher and his family sat in a nearly empty courtroom.
The ex-teacher started teaching fourth- and fifth-graders at a number of elite schools since 2005. Investigators traced the pornographic material to the house of the teacher’s father between September 2007 and May 2010.
“[The ex-teacher] is a parent’s worst nightmare – a person entrusted with the well-being of their children who is avidly consuming child pornography on the side,” a U.S. attorney informed. “He will be punished for his crime and will never be in close proximity to children again.”
Prosecutors wanted the ex-teacher to be jailed until he is sentenced on June 27, because he may spend up to five years in prison, but the judge allowed him to remain free on $50,000 bail.
“The one thing I will insist on is that he not be involved in any kind of stuff with children,” the judge said. The ex-teacher had no comment on the matter. A NYC Criminal Lawyer and those in Suffolk and Westchester Counties are well aware that certain judges are very harsh when it comes to sex crimes and in involvement of children in them.

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A Dallas man is suing the county, the sheriff, and the district attorney after he spent 13 months in jail without access to a lawyer or a court hearing.

The 22-year-old man had been pulled over for a traffic stop. He wished to hide the arrest warrant for violating his parole on a drug charge against him so he used his cousin’s name. He thought the 25-year-old husband and father had a clean record. However, that was not the case; a New York Criminal Lawyer was told.

The cousin also had an arrest warrant with charges of fondling a young relative. The 22-year-old man was arrested, booked, and put into jail.

The 22-year-old man had used his cousin’s name before and the police had the name listed as an alias. They however did not know the cousin was a real person. There were no fingerprints on record for the cousin so they could not compare both men’s prints.

A lawyer had been assigned to the 22-year-old man’s case, but court staff later told him that he already had a lawyer. The 22-year-old man was able to get in contact with his cousin and the cousin turned himself in. He was booked and released on bond. The courts in New York City and also Suffolk County try to make sure that all have proper defense attorneys.

The 22-year-old man had tried several attempts to make the police, the judge, and the prosecution aware of the mix-up. The cousin’s lawyer worked to get the 22-year-old man freed. He requested to see the judge so that they could show a picture of the 22-year-old man to the young relative to determine if he was the same man, according to a New York Sex
Crime Lawyer. When she cleared him, the 22-year-old man was immediately released.

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A police told a NY Criminal Lawyer that though a lot of people were frightened recently at a mall because they saw a man carrying his guns openly in the mall, he may not be liable. They think that he may not even have committed a crime.
Advocates of gun rights agreed that the man may not have been legally liable, but not because he could carry a gun in public should he have done so. It is a selfish act for him not to think about the fear that he would put in the hearts of the people who would see him. He has a duty to society to act responsibly and not to make people fear for their safety and existence.
It was the Police that told the Brooklyn Criminal Lawyer that they had received numerous 911 calls that Saturday morning about a man carrying a rifle and hand gun openly. When they went to investigate the incident, they found that the man was indeed carrying a rifle and a hand gun in plain sight, but the guns were not loaded. The management of the mall was very angry about the situation and asked the Police to remove the man from their establishment. With so many terrorism incidents taking place, the mall personnel did not want to leave anything to chance.
The Police did not charge the man for any wrongdoing because according to the law, he was not doing anything wrong. In places like The Bronx and Staten Island there are different laws and the man could easily have been arrested.

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