Criminal Defense Lawyers

Ohio Criminal Defense Lawyers

Defendant was charged with criminal child enticement under a law that was already found unconstitutional.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (PRWEB) - Defendant John Still was charged with one count of criminal child enticement in violation of Ohio Revised Code Section 2905.05(A). Still hired criminal lawyer Joseph Patituce of Patituce & Associates, a defense lawyer practicing near Cleveland to defend him. The defendant was accused of criminal child enticement, however, Mr. Patituce was able to successfully argue that the Court should throw out all charges against his client.

On April 21, 2011, Mr. Patituce, the defendant's defense lawyer, filed a motion to dismiss all charges based on prior case law holding that the law the defendant was charged under had been previously found unconstitutional. The Prosecutor argued in his brief that the Court of Appeals clearly had reached the wrong decision, however, the Rocky River Judge was not convinced by the Prosecutor's argument.

Michigan Criminal Defense Lawyers

Super Lawyers magazine names Grand Rapids, Michigan criminal defense attorney Jeffrey J. O'Hara one of the top attorneys in Michigan for 2011

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (PRWEB) - Grand Rapids, Michigan attorney Jeffrey J. O’Hara of The Law Office of Jeffrey J. O'Hara has been named by Michigan Super Lawyers magazine as one of the top attorneys in Michigan for 2011. Only five percent of the lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers.

Jeffrey J. O'Hara has over 20 years of experience and was admitted to practice in Michigan via Cooley Law School. Jeffrey J. O'Hara has served on the faculty and steering committee of the Hillman Trial Advocacy Program which instructs and mentors young lawyers to develop courtroom skills under the guidance of some of Western Michigan's top trial lawyers.

California Criminal Defense Lawyers

The shareholders and staff of the Hammerschmidt Broughton Law Corporation in Fresno, California, take great pleasure in saluting the Innocence Project for its outstanding work in 2010 and 2011 in advocating for innocent people who were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned.

FRESNO, California (PRWEB) - In 2010 Innocence Network organizations secured 29 exonerations of people across 14 states and two countries who had been convicted of crimes they did not commit. In three of those instances, individuals had already served more than thirty years in prison before being exonerated. In 2011 three people have so far been exonerated – two men in Texas and one man in Virginia – each of whom had spent roughly three decades in prison for crimes they did not commit.

Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers

Man gets 10 years in federal prison for East Texas traffic stop.

TYLER, Texas (USDOJ) - A 24-year-old Lawrenceville, Georgia man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.

Dannis Ivan Villarreal pleaded guilty on Sep. 30, 2010 to being involved in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Leonard E. Davis.

According to information presented in court, on Jan. 25, 2010, Villarreal was stopped for a traffic violation on Interstate 20 near Longview.

California Criminal Defense Lawyers

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