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Alabama Sentencing Guidelines

July 12, 2013

For many years, criminal attorneys studied Alabama’s habitual offender laws to determine what their client would face in the event they were convicted of a felony crime.  This habitual offender law was a sort of “three strikes your out” law, providing increasingly harsh punishment for multiple felonies, making a felony that was once punishable by […]

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Prisoners, Rehabilitation and Privileges

June 22, 2013

By Naomi De Silva from www.Cartwrightking.co.uk Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling has announced “radical” changes which he believes will make an impact on the rehabilitation of offenders. The proposed changes are: –          that inmates should wear a uniform during the 1st two weeks in jail; and access to private cash to call home should be restricted; […]

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Grandmother Convicted of Seventh DUI

June 7, 2013

Jeannie Jenkins, 53, was convicted of her seventh DUI after drinking alcohol prior to driving to pick up her 1-year-old grandchild from a day care center.  A Rolling Meadows jury deliberated for about two hours before finding Jenkins guilty following a three day trial before Judge Kay Hanlon. Jenkins was arrested in April of last […]

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Illegal Passing Leads to DUI Arrest in Connecticut

May 2, 2013

On Sunday evening, police officers pulled over a Shelton man and arrested him for drunken driving around 5:30 p.m.  Police saw the 2002 Acura MDX of Joseph Reis passing a vehicle on the left as another driver waited at a stop sign.  The incident took place at the intersection of Elm and Church streets in […]

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Was Johnnie Cochran The Greatest Criminal Attorney Of All Time?

February 26, 2013

Is he the best? Or Just the Most Famous? Johnnie Cochran will always be best remembered as the criminal attorney who defended O.J. Simpson in the most publicly presented murder case in the history of the world. Back when Simpson was on trial for the deaths of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, televised trials were […]

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