Category: Criminal Defense Law

Law Firm Marketing & Advertisement: Win Clients With Powerful Words

The legal profession constantly struggles to set in place a firm but fair set of policy rules to govern the legal advertisement/marketing industry and yet be able to strike the proper balance between consumer protection, thus allowing consumers to find legal services and ultimately get justice in a court of law. Meanwhile solo attorneys and small-to-medium size law firms that operate on a “tight budget” must learn to utilize unique, clever ways to keep the business afloat.

“We Have a Moral Responsibility to Disobey Unjust Laws.” Martin Luther King

Mary Freeman President, ShopBranch8: Inventors of the Yoga Suit President, Cream City Enterprises, Producers of the film, ZORBA THE BUDDHA Founder, Milwaukee Yoga Movement “Imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.” William Blake If there has ever been a time in the history of our Nation where Black America needs to Unite around an issue, now is the time because the number one cash crop in the world and all of her profits are being stolen by the 1% in our society.

Film exposes underworld of U.S. children sold online for sex

When Mary Mazzio first heard about middle-school girls from her hometown of Boston suing a website on which they had been sold for sex, the self-described “recovering lawyer” was blown away. Soon enough, pouring over a copy of the court case, Mazzio was plunged into a corner of the internet she had not suspected even existed: the world of classified ads website, Backpage.com.

The Berkeley riot and the ferality of the left

I’m sure you’ve heard quite a bit about the riot at U. Cal at Berkely that got Milo’s speech cancelled and a lot of conservatives assaulted. That riot was both disgraceful and revealing, of how much the progs with power turn a blind eye to the criminality of their own.

Really? Shuttering online brothel could hurt law enforcement

There’s a law enforcement paradox to Backpage.com, labeled by officials as the largest U.S. internet prostitution ad provider. California prosecutors label the site an “online brothel” that rakes in millions of dollars from sex trafficking that often includes minors, want to shut it down and send its owners to jail.

Judge in guards’ murder trial to rule on text messages

Prosecutors in the upcoming trial of three jail guards charged with fatally beating mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree and assaulting another inmate want to introduce text messages that they claim show the guards were motivated by their general contempt of prisoners, and the pleasure they took in seeing them suffer. “This motive is illustrated in the texts found on their phones wherein they express humor and enjoyment at pain or discomfort experienced by the inmates, regardless of who inflicts it,” Braker wrote.

Trump administration signals that some temporary bans on entry into U.S. could become permanent

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly pauses while speaking at a news conference at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, to discuss the operational implementation of the president’s executive orders. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly pauses while speaking at a news conference at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, to discuss the operational implementation of the president’s executive orders.

Man caught in vast FBI sting gets 3 years for child porn

Standing before a federal judge on Monday, a Virginia man apologized for using a secret website to download images of naked children and to discuss his urges to touch them. Edward Joseph Matish III told the judge he knows children in the photos are now “haunted by the fact these images continue to circulate.”

Rogue tweeters in government could be prosecuted as hackers

Who are the federal government’s rogue tweeters, using official agency social media accounts to poke President Donald Trump? Are these acts of civil disobedience, or federal crimes? The online campaign began with unauthorized tweets – on subjects such as climate change inconsistent with Trump’s campaign statements and policies – that have been mostly deleted from official agency accounts. It shifted tactics Thursday as at least 40 new but unofficial “alternative” accounts for federal agencies began spreading across Twitter.

Lawrence, Upton, Celebrity Hacker Sentenced

The individual that hacked into Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and other celebrity iCloud accounts was sentenced to 9 months in prison and $5,700 in restitution for his crimes. The hacker used a targeted phishing scheme that tricked the celebrities into revealing their login credentials.

‘Celebgate’ hacker sentenced to nine months for stealing nude photos

A Chicago man was sentenced to a stint in jail Tuesday for hacking online accounts belonging to Jennifer Lawrence , Kirsten Dunst , Kate Upton and Hope Solo , among dozens of other celebrities two years ago that ended up online. Edward Majerczyk was sentenced to nine months in prison after admitting to hacking the online accounts of at least 30 celebrities, and will have to pay $5,700 to one of his victims as partial compensation for treatment after the stolen photos were published on the Internet.

Microsoft Asserts Clients’ Rights in Fbi E-Mail Searches Fight

Microsoft Corp.’s effort to halt the FBI’s so-called sneak-and-peek searches of e-mails may ride on whether it’s allowed to defend its customers’ constitutional rights. The judge who will decide whether the case can go ahead told the company’s lawyers to be ready in court Monday to address earlier rulings that undercut their arguments.

Charleston church gunman, who discussed the a Jewish problem,a sentenced to death

Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof, whose racial manifesto said the Jewish “problem” would be solved “if we could somehow destroy the Jewish identity,” was sentenced to death on Tuesday for killing nine black worshippers. Roof was sentenced in federal district court in Charleston, South Carolina, late on Tuesday afternoon for the June 2015 massacre of African-American worshipers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Dylann Roof gets death penalty for church shootings

An unrepentant Dylann Roof was sentenced to death Tuesday for fatally shooting nine black church members during a Bible study session, becoming the first person ordered executed for a federal hate crime. A jury deliberated for about three hours before returning with the decision, capping a trial in which the 22-year-old avowed white supremacist did not fight for his life or show any remorse.

Private eyes look for runaways, sex-trade victims to rescue

Private investigator Joseph Travers at his Oceanside home, where he runs non-profit Saved in America to recover runaways at risk for being forced into sex trafficking. Private investigator Joseph Travers at his Oceanside home, where he runs non-profit Saved in America to recover runaways at risk for being forced into sex trafficking.

Private eyes look for runaways, sex-trade victims to rescue

Private investigator Joseph Travers at his Oceanside home, where he runs non-profit Saved in America to recover runaways at risk for being forced into sex trafficking. Private investigator Joseph Travers at his Oceanside home, where he runs non-profit Saved in America to recover runaways at risk for being forced into sex trafficking.

The reaction to a viral Facebook video of a hate crime tells us something about postelection America

Chicago police speak to press about the attack of a man with special needs that was captured in a Facebook Live video and the resulting charges filed against four people involved in the attack. Chicago police speak to press about the attack of a man with special needs that was captured in a Facebook Live video and the resulting charges filed against four people involved in the attack.

Dylann Roof and the loner-loser syndrome

As convicted murderer Dylann Roof prepares to defend himself in the sentencing phase of his trial, a clearer understanding of his motives in gunning down nine African-Americans during Bible study prayer has begun to emerge. In a word, he’s a loser — as random and ordinary as the proverbial tree falling in a forest bereft of listeners.

Roof won’t use mental health experts to try to save his life

Dylann Roof doesn’t want jurors to consider his mental health when they decide next month whether he should face the death penalty for killing nine black Charleston church worshippers, according to a handwritten motion he filed. Roof’s decision late Friday to not call mental health experts to testify isn’t too much of a surprise.

Roof won’t use mental health experts to try to save his life

Dylann Roof doesn’t want jurors to consider his mental health when they decide next month whether he should face the death penalty for killing nine black Charleston church worshippers, according to a handwritten motion he filed. Roof’s decision late Friday to not call mental health experts to testify isn’t too much of a surprise.

Trump deepens Goldman ties as he builds out economic team

Trump is expected to pick Cohn to lead the White H… Early plans call for American hero-astronaut John Glenn to lie in state in Ohio’s capitol building preceding a celebration of his life of military and government service and two history-making voyages into space. American hero-astronaut John Glenn will lie in state in Ohio’s capitol building preceding a celebration of his life of military and government service and two history-making voyages into space.

Trump transition team seeks details on Energy Dept. workers

Early plans call for American hero-astronaut John Glenn to lie in state in Ohio’s capitol building preceding a celebration of his life of military and government service and two history-making voyages into space. American hero-astronaut John Glenn will lie in state in Ohio’s capitol building preceding a celebration of his life of military and government service and two history-making voyages into space.