Section 3A1.4 of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines authorizes a steep increase in a defendant’s offense level and an automatic increase in his criminal history category if his offense “is a felony that involved, or was intended to promote, a federal…
Month: March 2015
2015
Category: Federal Criminal Law
Significant Property Rights Case Awaits Supreme Court Decision
When defendants are arrested for felonies, it has become a standard condition of bond in many courts that they cannot possess firearms while on bail. But what happens to those firearms…
2015
Category: Sex Crimes
Supreme Court to Address the Child-Victim Hearsay Exception
As criminal defense lawyers we are often called to represent individuals accused of committing sex crimes against children. As parents, and concerned members of society, we all condemn these most despicable…
2015
Category: Criminal Law
The Ferguson Police Department is not only an embarrassment to every law enforcement agency in this country but an embarrassment to the entire State of Missouri.
Last year the nation witnessed their unprofessional conduct in scores of incidents as…
2015
Just a gentle reminder that it is time to call your CPA and Tax Lawyer.
It seems that federal prosecutors, and IRS criminal investigators, are in an eerie collusion to have IRS tax violations prosecuted during the month of…