CRIMINAL LAW

QUESTION: I have been offered a job with an international tour company to be a U.S. representative for their company. I need to know if this is legal as it pertains to accepting client’s money in my Bank of America account, and then deducting my commission and fees and then sending the rest of the […]

Book Title: New York Practice (Hornbook) (Paperback) by David D. Siegel Editorial Review: Book Description This work is an introduction to the New York courts and their jurisdiction. Text covers the statute of limitations, personal jurisdiction, appearance, venue, parties, papers, pleadings, and motion practice. Also discusses accelerated judgment, provisional remedies, disclosure, pretrial incidents, judgment, and […]

“Shock” probation: a type of early parole granted by judges who believe defendants who have been incarcerated are “shocked” by prison and will not return to a life of crime.

Book Title: Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science (College Edition) (9th Edition) (Hardcover) by Richard E. Saferstein Editorial Reviews: Review “Dr. Richard Saferstein’s Criminalistics continues to be the gold standard of forensic science textbooks. He is simply unrivaled in his skill at making the crime lab exciting and accessible to all readers, ranging from forensic […]

Book Title: Beat Your Ticket: Go to Court & Win (Beat Your Ticket) (Paperback) by David Wayne Brown Editorial Reviews: The Electric Review “This is one of [our] consumer picks of the year, and a book every driver should own.” From Library Journal “Attorney Brown states in his introduction that there are many reasons why […]

Large Volume of F.B.I. Files Alarms U.S. Activist Groups July 17, 2005 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected at least 3,500 pages of internal documents in the last several years on a handful of civil rights and antiwar protest groups in what the groups charge is an attempt to stifle political opposition to […]