tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48504632014903140542024-03-14T01:38:00.451-07:00Law Office of Louis C. Schneider - Las VegasAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-35844332037610915322017-01-10T15:27:00.001-08:002017-01-10T15:27:09.964-08:00New 2017 Laws!<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Nevada voters passed the Question 2 ballot initiative in the November election, allowing an individual to possess up to one ounce of recreational marijuana. But there are no dispensaries licensed to sell the recreational drug.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Deonne Contine, director of the state Department of Taxation, says she hopes that temporary regulations will soon allow sales to occur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">State Sen. Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, said he intends to sponsor a bill in the 2017 Legislature to permit those businesses licensed to sell medical marijuana to sell the recreational drug. He wants to get the process moving quickly and estimates it will bring in $50 million a year in tax revenue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• The 2015 Legislature approved a law to require moped owners to register their vehicles with the Department of Motor Vehicles and pay a one-time fee. The law, meant to combat theft, set a Jan. 1 deadline to register the vehicles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alex Smith, a DMV spokesperson, said 300 mopeds were registered from Nov. 1 to Dec. 4. She said mopeds that are not on the road won’t have to register until they are put in use. Metro Police said they won’t issue citations until February.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Estimated cost of registration is $60 but the fee depends on the value of the moped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Nevada Highway Patrol troopers will be required to wear recording devices when they come in contact with the public. NHP chief Dennis Osborn said that won't happen until February when the video and recording equipment becomes available. He said the $1.2 million contract to buy the devices has to be approved by the Board of Examiners Jan. 10.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Parents who receive state child support payments will deal with a new bank. Bank of America will be processing the debit card accounts, replacing Chase bank, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.</span></div>
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Thanks to the <a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/" target="_blank">Las Vegas Sun</a> for the information contained herein. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-72494918021676467212016-12-29T10:15:00.000-08:002016-12-29T10:15:49.711-08:00Nevada’s new gun background check law fails before it begins.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A new law passed at the last election would've required anyone and everyone buying a gun to undergo a background check. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This would've included purchasing a gun at a gun show as well as private party sales. For example, let's say that your buddy has a gun collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let's say that your buddy wanted to sell a gun or two to you because he needed some free space and some money to go buy more guns. You agree on a price, you hand him some money, he hands you the gun. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, the new law is not able to be enforced. You see, the <i>State Law</i> mandated that the FBI conduct these private party background checks. The State of Nevada was trying to tell the FBI what to do. </span></div>
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So, in effect, this law died before it lived. So sad. /s</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-8221821508537574362016-09-09T13:20:00.000-07:002016-09-09T13:20:44.781-07:00DUI Consequences - Criminal and Administrative<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... but we are in Las Vegas, after all. One thing that a lot of people seem to misunderstand about getting in trouble for DUI is that you actually get punished twice. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So this is where "over a barrel" comes from... ouch!</td></tr>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many people don't realize this, or forget, but having a driver's license is not a right to which you are guaranteed. Having a driver's license is a privilege which is extended to you once you attain a certain age and pass a certain number of tests. In Nevada, possessing a driver's license is also a contract between you and the state. When you sign for your license, you are actually promising that you will never drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs and you are also giving consent to be tested if you are detained by law enforcement under suspicion of driving under the influence. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What this means in simple terms is that if you have been arrested for the crime of Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol or Drugs, there are now TWO entities you are in trouble with!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See, an arrest for DUI obviously gets you into trouble with the law. This takes the form of going to jail and then having to stand before a judge where you may receive a sentence in the form of jail time, hefty monetary fines, community service and/or classes and presentations about how driving drunk affects the lives of others. These types of punishments can take away your freedom for a period of time and typically will cost you many, many thousands of dollars. </span><br /><br /><br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What people sometimes don't realize is that when you get arrested for DUI, you are also in hot water with the Department of Motor Vehicles. And what really surprises people is that even if your criminal case gets dismissed or reduced to something less, like reckless driving, DMV STILL PUNISHES YOU FOR GETTING CAUGHT DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE! </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See, when you get arrested for DUI and then hire a lawyer, the lawyer's job is to pick through your arrest with a fine-tooth comb and see if the officer(s) who arrested you made any mistakes. If there are any cracks in the case filed against you, your lawyer may have some leverage in court to get your criminal case reduced so you may possibly be convicted of something <i>other than </i>DUI. However, DMV, much like honey badger, don't care. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At that point, DMV may as well change their name to IDGAF because no matter happens in court they will suspend your driver's license for at least 90 days! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here's the thing, you may think: "who cares? I'll just drive without my license!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, you may not want to risk that, because many times, when the court agrees to reduce your criminal charges to something more pleasant than a DUI, they do it with a few conditions. In 99% of these cases, one of the conditions is a 'Stay Out Of Trouble' order. Normally the court will order you to STAY OUT OF TROUBLE for one year, under the penalty of a suspended sentence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you violate your Stay Out Of Trouble order, you risk ruining the whole deal the court gave you. In fact, if you violate the SOOT order, you may even be arrested and forced to serve out your suspended jail sentence! </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-28518157530955238992016-06-29T15:22:00.000-07:002016-06-29T15:22:06.072-07:00Nevada backs down on "Kidnapping" statute - and why this is a good thing. <h3 style="text-align: center;">
Kidnapping.</h3>
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Say the word these days and many people will immediately think of something like this:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you."</span></td></tr>
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Or, even more horribly, something like this:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This part made Chitty Chitty Bang Bang WAY creepier than it had any right to be.</td></tr>
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But, as is the case with most Nevada law, the prosecution tends to play fast & loose with its application. Most notably, it has been applied as a way to throw extra (and unnecessary) charges at teachers who were having consensual relationships with 16-18 year old students - relationships, I might add, that would've been completely legal had the teacher/student relationship not been at issue as the age of consent in Nevada is 16. <div>
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Our... extremely motivated... district attorneys will sometimes throw a lot of charges at someone just to see what sticks, regardless if they are appropriate to the given situation. Recently, a teacher was sentenced to 6-15 years largely because he was convicted of several kidnapping charges that were tacked on to his 'sexual misconduct' case. </div>
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Unfortunately, in that case, the charges stuck. However, as of April 21, 2016, a new Nevada Supreme Court opinion has come down and found that:</div>
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<li>The language contained in NRS 200.310(1) about the kidnappers "intent to keep" is ambiguous because the statutory language lends itself to two or more reasonable interpretations. </li>
<li>Pursuant to <i>Haney v. State: "</i>If the statute is ambiguous, then this court will look beyond the statutory language itself to determine the legislative intent of the Statute" and </li>
<li>The rule of lenity "demands that ambiguities in criminal statutes be liberally interpreted in the accused's favor."</li>
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There's a lot more case law and legal-ese I could put in here, but I'd rather make you laugh than put you to sleep, so let's just say that this is actually a good thing. Our prosecutors in this state have been making up their own rules for far too long. </div>
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If you want to read more about this decision, you can look it up: Just Google 132 Nev., Advance Opinion 26 or Michael J. Schofield v. State of Nevada. </div>
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Have a happy 4th of July, everyone. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-87506743991466495122016-06-23T15:33:00.002-07:002016-06-23T15:37:17.526-07:00A last minute effort to halt the draconian Adam Walsh Act from being enforced next month.<h4>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 2007, Nevada legislature passed (or voted to adopt) the Federal Adam Walsh Act - a Federal Law designed to "protect" the public from "dangerous" sex offenders. </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since 2007 the actual implementation of the law has been stalled due to various appeals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Recently, the Nevada Supreme Court had had enough and voted to implement the Adam Walsh act without further delay. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why is this a problem? </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shouldn't the public be protected from dangerous sex offenders? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well. Yes, of course. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Aside from the fact that several studies over the past few decades clearly show that sex offender registries in and of themselves do almost nothing to "protect" anyone from being the victim of a crime and simply waste taxpayer money and law enforcement resources, the Adam Walsh Act is ridiculously broad, extreme and oppressive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For example, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.2378px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">under Nevada’s previous law, people convicted of sex crimes (which, in some cases could be something as mild as being arrested for urinating in public) were assessed on their risk of re-offending. Thousands of offenders who were deemed low risk, or a Tier 1, were not subject to community notification. Under the new law, <b>which applies to offenses dating to 1956</b>, tier levels are based on the offense committed, regardless of circumstances. Many offenders <i>already deemed by a judge to be no threat</i> to the community will now have their names, photos and addresses available for public scrutiny.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many previously classified as a Tier 1 (low risk or NO risk) are now reassessed as a Tier 3 (very high risk, sometimes called "sexually violent predator") and will be subject to lifetime reporting requirements. The plaintiffs fear they will lose their jobs or businesses, be forced from their homes or have the safety of their families jeopardized when their employers and neighbors discover their status.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's another problem in what you just read. I put it in bold for you. This law goes back to anyone convicted of a crime SINCE 1956. Folks... in 1956 IT WAS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY. So let's say that there's someone out there, in Nevada, alive today who was arrested for having homosexual sex in 1962. Thanks to this new law, that person is now instantly considered a sex offender! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What the hell is wrong with our legal system?</span></h3>
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Here's an excerpt from the very well-written article in today Review Journal:</div>
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Vicki Henry, with the group Women Against Registry, also raised concerns about the law, saying it will “destroy the families of those who have lived a law-abiding life for the last 20, 30, 40 or 50 years.”</div>
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“We will have registrants losing their jobs, homes foreclosed on, and children beaten up, homes burned, property damaged and wives losing their jobs when someone learns they are married to a registrant,” she said in a statement.</div>
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She said the law will essentially “place a target on the backs of all living at any address listed on a public registry.”</div>
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Among other things, the lawsuit claims the state has tried to enforce the law against people convicted of offenses that are no longer crimes and against people who have obtained court order relieving them of their obligation to register as a sex offender.</div>
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One plaintiff, identified as Doe 3, pleaded guilty in 1961 when he was 19 years old in California to a misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure and annoying a minor. He was not required to register as an offender. Now 74 and the father of four adult children, he will be required to register as a Tier 1 offender and be subject to community notification.</div>
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Another, Doe 5, pleaded no contest in 1997 in Florida to one count of solicitation of a child via computer. At the time of sentencing, he received a withheld adjudication, meaning he has no criminal conviction, the lawsuit said. Earlier this month, the businessman was informed by Nevada that he would be classified as a Tier 3 and subject to lifetime registration and community notification. He also must report in person to law enforcement every three months.</div>
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Doe 7 was released for lifetime supervision by the state Parole Board in 2011 and in April a court terminated his requirement to register as a sex offender. But the Department of Public Safety told him this month that he would be designated as Tier 3. (The highest risk category available!)</div>
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The lawsuit also claims the law is unclear about how long different tiers must register for and when the clock starts, and fails to address how the state will identify people who were previously not required to register.</div>
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It further argues the law breaches deals some offenders reached years ago with prosecutors when they entered guilty pleas.</div>
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The law, the filing said, “is unjust, oppressive, vague, unenforceable, arbitrary and vindictive, and is equivalent to imposing new probation, parole, lifetime supervision or other criminal sanctions on plaintiffs.”</div>
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It also argued it will not promote public safety and will disrupt the criminal justice system by deterring defendants from entering into plea agreements.</div>
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If you share my frustration with this new law, please take a moment to write to your legislators and representatives. You may think, "well, I'm not a sex offender, so this doesn't affect me." But think of it this way: Maybe one day the government will slap a label on YOU and then it won't be so funny.<br />
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Here's the link to the RJ: <a href="http://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/sex-crimes/amended-lawsuit-challenges-nevada-law-governing-registration-sex-offenders">http://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/sex-crimes/amended-lawsuit-challenges-nevada-law-governing-registration-sex-offenders</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-59002441354615319252016-06-20T14:05:00.000-07:002016-06-20T14:05:46.163-07:00What does Nevada consider to be a "Dangerous Weapon"? <h4 style="text-align: center;">
It's surprising how many people don't know what they can be arrested for and end up with probation or prison time just for carrying. </h4>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dangerous Weapons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Male machismo aside, you can get into some serious trouble for carrying around certain things here in Nevada. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you get caught by law enforcement in possession of any of the following, you're looking at being arrested for a Gross Misdemeanor or a Felony, depending upon the circumstances:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any Belt-Buckle knife</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any switchblade where the blade is longer than 2 inches</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any blackjack</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I just KNEW these were illegal!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, not <i>that</i> kind of blackjack.... this kind:</span><br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes... yes... we all know what it looks like... </td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Slingshot</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Billy Club</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sand Club</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WHAP!</td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nunchaku - or as everyone calls them "nun-chucks" </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trefoil - the fancy term for a throwing star.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and everyone's favorite: BRASS KNUCKLES. No, the cops don't care that you claim they're a paperweight, no, they don't care that you have buckled your belt with them.... if you get caught carrying brass knuckles, <i>you will go to jail!</i></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you possess a RIFLE with a barrel less than 16 inches or an overall length of less than 26 inches, or a SHOTGUN with a barrel less than 18 inches or an overall length of less than 26 inches, you're committing a felony. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have been charged with any of these crimes, call my office for experienced and aggressive representation. 702-435-2121</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lcslawfamily.com%20/" target="_blank">www.lcslawfamily.com </a></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-34464513696805489622016-06-14T08:33:00.000-07:002016-06-14T08:33:54.039-07:00In Support of Orlando and the Gay Community<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We would like to take a few moments to pay tribute to the men and women who lost their lives in the senseless tragedy that unfolded a few days ago in Orlando. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a sobering reminder that humans are capable of the most beautiful dreams and, simultaneously, the most horrendous nightmares. You can never truly know what's going on inside someone's head if they don't want you to know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The outpouring of love and support for Orlando and the gay community in these past few days are a reminder of just how well we can all get along if and when we want to; although it's sad that it normally takes a tragedy for such solidarity to manifest. Otherwise we're all engrossed in our own little worlds, honking and flipping each other off in traffic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, before the feeling of unity fades away, take a minute to tell someone you love how you really feel. You never know if that may be the last time you get the chance. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Notes", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;">“Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Down’s-syndrome child. Because in every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for others, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example. Each smallest act of kindness—even just words of hope when they are needed, the remembrance of a birthday, a compliment that engenders a smile—reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act, regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is therefore the seed that ultimately produces evil fruit, poisoning people whom you have never met and never will. All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined—those dead, those living, those generations yet to come—that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands. Therefore, after every failure, we are obliged to strive again for success, and when faced with the end of one thing, we must build something new and better in the ashes, just as from pain and grief, we must weave hope, for each of us is a thread critical to the strength—to the very survival of the human tapestry. Every hour in every life contains such often-unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days and thrilling possibilities are combined always in this momentous day.” </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Notes", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;">― </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Notes", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;">Dean Koontz</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Notes", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;">, </span><em style="color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Notes", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;">From the Corner of His Eye</em></blockquote>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-22701018597269977182016-06-13T08:21:00.000-07:002016-06-13T08:21:27.078-07:00The Cost of the "War on Drugs" is Too High!<h4>
Today, I'd like to share with you a 'Letter to the Editor' of our local newspaper, the Las Vegas Review Journal. </h4>
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This was written by my colleague and friend, Christopher Tilman, and I agree with him 100%</div>
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The original link is here: <a href="http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/letters/cost-the-drug-war-too-high" target="_blank">http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/letters/cost-the-drug-war-too-high</a></div>
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Contrary to what was expressed in the editorial, marijuana is not a gateway drug — and this has been disproved repeatedly. Likewise, marijuana does not cause cancer, mental illness, birth defects or irreversible brain damage, as was opined. Additionally, marijuana is not physically addictive and there has been no documented overdose death from its use.</div>
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While it is true there is a possible link to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in heavy users, this has been found in people who smoke tobacco and marijuana together, so the data is not clear on those who smoke only marijuana.</div>
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As to the half truth that the savings to the taxpayer will be negligible, consider that even if there are “only” 90 state prisoners who would be freed, that would save $30,000 per year per prisoner (the cost to incarcerate one prisoner per year in Nevada). That’s $2.7 million per year.</div>
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What was not said in the opinion is the cost of police enforcement, prosecution and court time to go after the people arrested for personal use. This is a massive waste of time and resources. The tax benefits that the editorial seems to gloss over are likewise not negligible. Tax revenue projections here are in the $80 million to $100 million per year range due to our tourist-based economy. How this can be ignored is beyond me.</div>
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As a criminal defense attorney in Nevada I make money from the current marijuana laws. However, the cost — financial and to our civil liberties — of marijuana’s illegal status and the potential revenue from legalizing recreational marijuana are not something we can look at with a narrow, outdated view that we know does not work.</div>
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We are losing our civil liberties because of the drug war and we cannot afford to prosecute adults as part of marijuana prohibition. We need to vote to legalize recreational marijuana.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-58702195140808003842016-06-09T12:17:00.000-07:002016-06-09T12:17:08.194-07:00As Americans we view Gun Ownership as our Right...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">But certain things can affect your right to buy, own, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or even HOLD a gun!</span></div>
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Nevada Revised Statute 202.360 is the law responsible for this. It governs </div>
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"Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm"</div>
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1. a person who is prohibited from firearm <i>possession </i>(notice it doesn't say <i>ownership</i>) is one or more of the following:<br />a) Ex-Felon: Someone who has been convicted of a felony crime in this or any other state.</div>
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b) Fugitive From Justice: </div>
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A fugitive is a person who is charged in another state with the commission of a felony and has fled from that state to avoid prosecution, or is fleeing from another state to avoid giving testimony in any criminal proceeding.<br />
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c) Habitual Drug Users: </div>
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Now, again, I'm not just talking about being prohibited from OWNING a gun or BUYING a gun. The law is very specific and states that if any one of the above-described persons so much as:</div>
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Picture it: a warm summer day in Las Vegas, 2016. You've been convicted of a felony, but that was years ago. You've since served out your sentence, changed your life and are now, for all intents and purposes, a kind, decent, hard-working, productive human being, and you rarely think about the ugly label of "EX FELON" that society would have you wear as though it were a large red "A" and your name was Hester Prynne. But I digress. Your friend is coming over and you two are going out to do a little shopping, maybe grab some lunch, who knows. Your friend has never been arrested and enjoys the freedoms of the 2nd amendment combined with Nevada's Open Carry laws by carrying a gun most places they go. </blockquote>
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He unfastens his holster, leaves the gun on the floor of the passenger seat and runs into the bank. There's a queue. You're waiting, playing Angry Birds or whatever and just as you're about to rescue the eggs from those stupid pigs, a police officer taps on your window. See, he was just leaving the restaurant that's right behind you after his lunch break and he saw you waiting outside a bank with the engine running and figured that he'd run your license plate just for the hell of it.</blockquote>
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Anyway, he taps on your window, and in your 'distracted-by-egg-stealing-pigs' state you drop the window. He sees the gun on your floor and the next thing <b>you </b>see is: </blockquote>
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Next thing you know, you're out of the car, in handcuffs, your car is being sealed pending the officers obtaining a telephonic search warrant so that they can legally recover the firearm (there goes 3 hours of your day) and, considering the batch of cops you get and how persuasive your friend is, you may, or may not be arrested on a fresh felony for being an Ex Felon with a firearm under your custody or control.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the legal definition is a bit more broad than you might think. </span></div>
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It typically comprises the following two circumstances:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An example of #1 could be someone masturbating in front of an open window while watching people pass by. This person is making no effort to conceal himself or herself and anyone who glances in that direction will see everything!</span></div>
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In many cases, prosecutors bring open or gross lewdness charges in conjunction with charges of the Nevada crime of indecent exposure. Indecent exposure is defined as "any open and indecent or obscene exposure of his/her person, or of another person." An example would be to expose someone's buttocks, breasts or genitalia in a place where others could see.</div>
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The main difference between the Nevada crimes of indecent exposure and open or gross lewdness is that open and gross lewdness tends to refer to sexual acts, whereas indecent exposure refers to baring private body parts whether or not it is sexually motivated. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The penalties for committing the Nevada offense of open or gross lewdness varies depending upon whether this is someone's first arrest/conviction for open or gross lewdness:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A first offense of open or gross lewdness is a gross misdemeanor in Nevada. The punishment includes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A subsequent offense of open or gross lewdness is a category D felony in Nevada. The punishment carries:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The penalties for a Nevada violation of indecent exposure law are the same as the penalties for open or gross lewdness:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A first offense of indecent exposure is a gross misdemeanor in Nevada, carrying a sentence of:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note that open or gross lewdness may be a crime of crime of moral turpitude in Nevada. This means that aliens may be removed from the U.S. for it. Learn more about Nevada immigration laws.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-7467710648983344562016-06-03T10:55:00.000-07:002016-06-03T10:55:08.260-07:00Child Abuse / Child Neglect / Child Endangerment<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sadly, our criminal prosecution too frequently goes full <br />Helen Lovejoy when it's simply not warranted.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, many of the laws we have carry titles that make them sound downright draconian, far more so than the actual circumstances that took place. For example, take this situation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Divorced parents have a teenage daughter who is exhibiting some normal teenage behavior issues: she's defiant, disobedient; she doesn't want to live with mom because mom's house has "too many rules" and lives with dad instead. She wears clothes that are too revealing, she wears too much makeup...</i></span></blockquote>
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...<i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">and has various parts of her anatomy pierced. One day, dad comes home from work early, unannounced. He walks in to find his daughter and an unknown teenage boy together, in the process of getting drunk. As likely any father would, he becomes immediately enraged and confronts his daughter. She screams back at him and refuses to acknowledge that she's doing anything wrong and calls him a bunch of unpleasant names. He ultimately he ends up slapping her a few times. </i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Should he have physically struck his daughter? No, probably not. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But, does anyone really think that this situation called for the dad to be arrested on Felony Child Abuse charges? Really? Should dad really be labelled a Felon for the rest of his life because of this one instance? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's for you to decide, but I know that my parents definitely knocked some sense into me when I was little, and I certainly do not consider that to have been "ABUSE" by any stretch of the imagination. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The police and the D.A., however, have decided to charge this man with a Felony for this exact situation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's easy to pass judgement from the safety of your own home, or be brave behind your own keyboard, but put yourself in the same situation and think about how YOU would feel if it was you sitting in jail, possibly losing your job, dealing with life as an ex-felon in America, all for something as simple as slapping your defiant, drunken, promiscuous teenage daughter because you care about the mistakes she's making and the consequences they may have for her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nevada defines CHILD ABUSE and/or NEGLECT and/or ENDANGERMENT thusly:</span><br />
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1. A person who willfully causes a child who is less than 18 years of age to suffer unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering as a result of abuse or neglect or to be placed in a situation where the child may suffer physical pain or mental suffering as the result of abuse or neglect:</div>
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(1) If the child is less than 14 years of age and the harm is the result of sexual abuse or exploitation, is guilty of a category A felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life with the possibility of parole, with eligibility for parole beginning when a minimum of 15 years has been served; or</div>
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(2) In all other such cases to which subparagraph (1) does not apply, is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 2 years and a maximum term of not more than 20 years; or</div>
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(1) If the person has not previously been convicted of a violation of this section or of a violation of the law of any other jurisdiction that prohibits the same or similar conduct, is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 6 years; or</div>
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(2) If the person has previously been convicted of a violation of this section or of a violation of the law of any other jurisdiction that prohibits the same or similar conduct, is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 2 years and a maximum term of not more than 15 years,</div>
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2. A person who is responsible for the safety or welfare of a child and who permits or allows that child to suffer unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering as a result of abuse or neglect or to be placed in a situation where the child may suffer physical pain or mental suffering as the result of abuse or neglect:</div>
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(1) If the child is less than 14 years of age and the harm is the result of sexual abuse or exploitation, is guilty of a category A felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life with the possibility of parole, with eligibility for parole beginning when a minimum of 10 years has been served; or</div>
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(2) In all other such cases to which subparagraph (1) does not apply, is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 2 years and a maximum term of not more than 20 years; or</div>
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(1) If the person has not previously been convicted of a violation of this section or of a violation of the law of any other jurisdiction that prohibits the same or similar conduct, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor; or</div>
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(2) If the person has previously been convicted of a violation of this section or of a violation of the law of any other jurisdiction that prohibits the same or similar conduct, is guilty of a category C felony and shall be punished as provided in <a href="https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-193.html#NRS193Sec130" style="color: purple;">NRS 193.130</a>,</div>
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3. A person does not commit a violation of subsection 1 or 2 by virtue of the sole fact that the person delivers or allows the delivery of a child to a provider of emergency services pursuant to <a href="https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-432B.html#NRS432BSec630" style="color: purple;">NRS 432B.630</a>.</div>
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(a) “Abuse or neglect” means physical or mental injury of a nonaccidental nature, sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, negligent treatment or maltreatment of a child under the age of 18 years, as set forth in paragraph (d) and <a href="https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-432B.html#NRS432BSec070" style="color: purple;">NRS 432B.070</a>, <a href="https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-432B.html#NRS432BSec100" style="color: purple;">432B.100</a>, <a href="https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-432B.html#NRS432BSec110" style="color: purple;">432B.110</a>, <a href="https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-432B.html#NRS432BSec140" style="color: purple;">432B.140</a> and <a href="https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-432B.html#NRS432BSec150" style="color: purple;">432B.150</a>, under circumstances which indicate that the child’s health or welfare is harmed or threatened with harm.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 10pt; text-align: justify;"> (e) “Substantial mental harm” means an injury to the intellectual or psychological capacity or the emotional condition of a child as evidenced by an observable and substantial impairment of the ability of the child to function within his or her normal range of performance or behavior.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you've been accused of a crime against a child, give Louis Schneider a call at 702-435-2121 to start building your defense right away!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-73353192441185863792016-05-26T12:19:00.000-07:002016-05-26T12:19:29.329-07:00So, you got a DUI...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Veni Vidi Bibi. I came. I saw. I drank. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You weren't planning on it. You were planning on a quiet evening at home. Maybe some ice cream and binge-watching some Game of Thrones in your comfy clothes. But no. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your friend called. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know who I'm talking about. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That one friend who carefully weaves fun persuasion into a masterfully-crafted, perfectly-worded quasi-guilt trip and can usually talk you into just about anything. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next thing you know, one beer turns into 4 and then some dumb*** starts ordering shots. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It's all fun and games until about 4 hours later and:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only thing worse than a hangover... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...is a hangover in jail...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>So what happens now? </u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, it depends on your unique situation:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is this your first offense? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was there an accident?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did you take a breath or blood test?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did the officer get the evidentiary test within 2 hours of stopping you?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did you punch the officer at any point during your arrest? (You know who you are.)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But generally speaking, you're going to spend some time in jail. At the bare minimum 12 hours - likely longer, from 2-4 days. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-57154194132681623572016-05-19T09:56:00.000-07:002016-05-19T09:56:20.340-07:00Sex Crimes. <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today, Class, we're going to talk about:</span></div>
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In Nevada’s criminal justice system, as in much of American society, sexually-based offenses are considered particularly egregious. Sex crimes carry a stigma that goes beyond that associated with many other crimes. Prison is only the beginning. A sex crime conviction means that for the rest of your life you will need to register as a sex offender wherever you live, and your name, address, photo, and charges may be published on the Internet for the world to see. You may face housing restrictions and limitations on the type of job you can have.</div>
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TYPES OF SEXUALLY-RELATED CRIMES</h2>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sexual assault</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sexual battery (not what powers your toys...)</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rape</li>
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<span style="color: #141313; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 25.12px;">Many people accused of sex crimes find that law enforcement personnel and the community as a whole often assume because you’ve been accused of a sex crime, you’re guilty. The presumption of innocence you’re entitled to often does not extend to the larger community, and your reputation may be shattered, based on an unproved accusation.</span><div>
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Add to that the fact that most sex crimes are committed behind closed doors; charges are often filed on no more evidence than the alleged victim’s word, providing fertile ground for false allegations. We see groundless accusations arising from contentious divorce and child custody battles, fractured relationships, and consensual sex gone wrong.</div>
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If you’ve been accused of a sex crime, or if someone has threatened to accuse you, you need to call a lawyer <b>immediately</b>. Defenses are available, including false allegations, lack of proof, and consent.</div>
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Louis Schneider is an experienced and aggressive attorney who has handled many sex crime cases. Call our office today at 702-435-2121</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-5388603218295187172016-05-17T10:03:00.000-07:002016-05-17T10:03:18.380-07:00Manslaughter<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #141313; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 25.12px; margin-bottom: 25px; text-align: center;">
The wisdom of the Internet says "you can't have 'manslaughter' without 'laughter', but being charged with such a serious crime isn't funny. </h4>
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Being charged with and convicted of manslaughter labels you as a killer, even though you never intended to kill anyone. Having a criminal record for manslaughter can result in years of jail time, thousands and thousands of dollars in fines, disruption of your life, and makes finding employment prohibitively difficult, not to mention the social stigma attached to such a label.</div>
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Like murder, manslaughter is a type of homicide; however manslaughter is a less serious crime, because it lacks the intent that is required for a murder conviction. Manslaughter differs from murder in that it is killing without malice or premeditation. The crime of manslaughter is broken down into two types in Nevada: voluntary and involuntary.</div>
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VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER</h2>
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Voluntary manslaughter in Nevada is when a killing is done in the heat of passion. </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 25.12px;">According to the definition in Nevada statutes, voluntary manslaughter is when there is “a serious and highly provoking injury inflicted upon the person killing, sufficient to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, or an attempt by the person killed to commit a serious personal injury on the person killing.”</span></div>
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An example is when a husband walks into his home and finds his wife <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">in flagrante delicto</em>, (Latin makes finding your significant other in bed with someone else sound so fancy!), and in a state of shock and fury and blind rage he kills them both immediately. The maximum prison term for voluntary manslaughter is ten years.</div>
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Involuntary manslaughter in Nevada is an unintentional killing done in the course of breaking the law, for example, doing this...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If this is you, you don't have the <i>intent</i> to kill someone, you're just an asshole.</td></tr>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px; line-height: 25.12px;">The maximum prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter is four years. Is any text message really so important that you're willing to risk trading four years in prison for it?</span></div>
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Vehicular manslaughter, the killing of a human being by means of a motor vehicle without malice or deliberation, is a type of involuntary manslaughter and is often imposed upon drunk or impaired drivers who cause an accident and kill someone else. </div>
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As I've said over and over again in this blog, sometimes good people just make bad decisions. Nobody is perfect 100% of the time. If you or a loved one may be charged in a situation like this, all hope is not lost. Call my office today at 702-435-2121. There are options for your legal defense. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-71609147953128681552016-05-10T16:56:00.000-07:002016-05-10T16:56:45.819-07:00Possession<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While the movement to "legalize it" gains steady ground throughout the country, Nevada has historically been very harsh on drug use and possession. In fact, a mere 20 years ago, having one marijuana seed in your pocket would get you a felony.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Things have relaxed a little, but we still boast some very strict enforcement of possession of drugs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With the advancement of legalized medical marijuana, I'd like to focus more on "harder" drugs with this blog; however I'd be remiss not to tell you that possession of marijuana IS still illegal here, provided you don't have a valid <b><u>Nevada </u></b>Medical Marijuana Patient card. No, your California one is not valid here. No, you cannot "just have some" for personal use. You either have a valid, medically approved permit, or you're risking jail time. End of story on MJ. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Aside from the aforementioned MJ, <u>all </u>other drug possession in Nevada is more serious with most charges being Felony ones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nevada breaks certain types of substances into "schedules". Like this:</span><br />
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<strong>Schedule I</strong> drugs include those that are the most dangerous and have a high risk of addiction or dependency and no (recognized) legitimate medical use. Drugs included under this heading include LSD, Ecstasy (MDMA, X, Molly), heroin and mescaline.</div>
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<strong>Schedule II</strong> substances still have a high risk of abuse but may also have legitimate medical uses. These include things like opium, cocaine, methadone, methamphetamines, and amphetamines.</div>
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<strong>Schedule III</strong> drugs are slightly less dangerous than Schedule II substances, but still have a moderate risk of abuse. Schedule III substances include anabolic steroids, testosterone, ketamine(special k), and some depressants.</div>
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<strong>Schedule IV </strong>drugs have a slight risk of dependency and have very acceptable medical uses. Some Schedule IV drugs are clonazepam, Xanax, tranquilizers, and sedatives.</div>
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<strong>Schedule V</strong> substances have a very low risk of dependency and include things like over-the-counter Tylenol with Codeine.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I should stop here and clarify something that many people don't realize or understand. Nevada has a law stating that if you are in possession of some type of medication that you can only get via a doctor's prescription, you MUST be able to prove that the medication is yours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #383838;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">In simple terms, if your friend tosses you a few Oxy's or a handful of Xanax, and you get caught with those pills and you cannot prove that you got those pills legitimately </span><i style="line-height: 20px;">from a doctor</i><span style="line-height: 20px;">, you are, in all likelihood, going to jail on some very serious charges. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #383838;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">In fact, if you have your own prescription medications and you want to take a few of them with you while leaving the bulk of your pills at home for safety, you may risk the same issue. If a law enforcement officer catches you with some "rogue" prescription medications, and those medications are not in the pharmacy bottle <i>with your name on the label</i>, the officer can very easily arrest you for being in "possession of dangerous drugs without prescription" - NRS 454.316.</span></span></span></div>
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As stated, the penalty and charges you face depend on the type of drug you are charged with possessing and the extent of your criminal record.</div>
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If it is your first or second drug charge and you are caught with any substance classified as a schedule I, II, III, or IV, you will face <strong>Class E felony</strong> charges. A class E felony charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 1 year and up to 4 years in prison.</div>
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If this marks the third or greater drug offense for you, and you are charged with possessing any drug listed in Schedule I, II, III, or IV, you will face <strong>Class D felony</strong> charges. A Class D felony carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 1 year and up to four with a fine reaching $20,000.</div>
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That's right, law enforcement can charge you with Possession with Intent to Sell and/or Drug Trafficking without ever proving you sold drugs to anyone. If you have enough of an illegal drug, the law just assumes that the only reason you had so much was to sell it. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like most people, I'm sure you'd never even consider the notion that you could ever be guilty of transporting a controlled substance, right? Other people do that sort of thing, not me! I'm not a drug mule, you'd say. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Every year, here in Las Vegas, we throw this little, humble backyard party and invite a couple close friends... Perhaps you've heard of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Technically this counts as transporting a controlled substance. Oh, and you also can get bonus points for crossing state lines with drugs and get the DEA involved. Especially if you have a lot of Mollies and the law assumes you were transporting a controlled substance across state lines <i>with the intent to sell it</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can go from intending to have a fun weekend in Vegas to some seriously deep shit very quickly. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-10680141816700263352016-05-03T15:31:00.000-07:002016-05-03T15:31:12.074-07:00WHY IS DIVORCE SO EXPENSIVE?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The intent of this blog is to inform and entertain because we all learn faster and easier when we're having a good time with the material. So, in plain English, I'd like to explain why, sometimes, Divorces cost so much!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most people quickly answer that Lawyers are evil, money-gobbling creatures, and, sure, some are. But the reality of the situation is that many couples seeking a divorce largely create their own ever-increasing legal bills by disagreeing about literally everything they can. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What does a divorce look like to a lawyer? Let me see if I can break this down for you:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, the person who initially files for the divorce (and therefore becomes the Plaintiff) goes to a lawyer and explains his/her situation. The lawyer then drafts a COMPLAINT FOR DIVORCE. (Get it, comPLAINT = PLAINTIFF? That's a neat little mnemonic device.) This complaint spells out the basic reasons why the plaintiff wishes to divorce their spouse and, generally, what they want the court to award them in the divorce: the car, the house, the kids...</span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This complaint gets filed with the court (the court charges about $300.00 just to accept and file this document), and then the complaint gets served on the other party who then becomes the Defendant (because s/he has to DEFEND him/herself against the complaint). This service has to be done a specific way to be valid in the eyes of the court, so most lawyers use a licensed Process Server to accomplish this. A process server will charge anywhere from $70 - $300 to perform this service, depending upon the situation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Defendant then has 20 days to respond to the complaint. Usually this means that the Defendant has to go and hire their own lawyer who then drafts a document called an ANSWER AND COUNTERCLAIM, wherein the Defendant <i>Answers</i> the Plaintiff's Complaint by agreeing or disagreeing with specific parts of it and then makes his or her own <i>Counterclaim For Divorce</i>. Most divorce lawyers in Las Vegas charge between $400 - $600 an hour and these documents can sometimes take half a day to draft, depending upon the number of things the couple wishes to argue about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, there may be things that need addressed before the parties even come close to agreeing on a final Decree of Divorce. These things frequently take the form of child custody, child support, and the payment of debts that the couple accrued together. Sometimes it has to do with who gets to keep the house since the couple no longer wishes to continue to live together during the divorce proceedings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To deal with issues such as these, many times a lawyer will bring the parties before the court by filing a MOTION. There is no one "MOTION", and a motion can be about just about anything. Our office tends to favor something called a MOTION FOR INTERIM ORDERS which is a convenient way to draft a document that basically says "Hey, Judge, these people are in the process of getting a divorce, but <i>right now</i> they really can't agree on some important stuff and we need you to make a ruling on just these few items so the folks can move past these issues they're arguing about."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once one party files a motion (either party can, but they each remain Plaintiff and Defendant during the entirety of the case. Once you're the Plaintiff, that's your title on every document from then on during the whole case), the other party has a limited time to respond to the motion. A proper response to a MOTION is an <i>OPPOSITION AND COUNTERMOTION</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The person filing the Opposition and Countermotion gives reasons why the party filing the Motion shouldn't get what they've asked for and why the judge should rule in <i>their</i> favor instead. These documents can be extremely lengthy. Depending upon the level of complexity of the issue at hand and the number of attached exhibits, I've seen Motions and Oppositions & Countermotions exceed several hundred pages!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once a Motion is filed, and then an Opposition & Countermotion is filed in response, the person who filed the motion can respond yet again by filing a REPLY IN SUPPORT OF MOTION AND OPPOSITION TO COUNTERMOTION. In this document, the Motion-filer acknowledges what the other party said in the opposition to their motion and reaffirms why the court should still grant their original motion. They also include an Opposition to the Countermotion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, you also have to remember that there is really no specified limit to the documents I've been talking about. People can fire motions and oppositions and countermotions and replies and more oppositions back and forth like arrows in any given <i>Lord of the Rings</i> film. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once it reaches a certain point of disagreement, the lawyers for each side will often times schedule something called an Evidentiary Hearing. This is basically a mini-trial where, after weeks of preparation (and more documents - I'll talk about those in a second), everyone shows up in court in front of a judge and pleads their evidence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before an Evidentiary Hearing, both lawyers have an open window of time in which to gather evidence, which the court calls "Discovery". A lawyer can send over pages and pages of questions that the other side, by law, has to answer. One form they can take is something called "Interrogatories". There is a limit of 40 interrogatories a lawyer can propound on the other side, and the questions are designed to address specific issues the couple has. They can be anything, and they generally get uncomfortably personal in nature. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other types of discovery are "Request for Admissions" in which one side can send over a list of "yes or no" type questions that the other side must answer. These are also very probing questions, depending upon the couple, and it's a way for one side to demand that the other side air all their secrets in open court or risk perjuring themselves if they get caught lying about something. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another type of written discovery is called "Requests for Production" and these are extremely time consuming. Picture 20 or 30 requests, each of them stating something like:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see how personal and intrusive these can get. Each time we do an evidentiary hearing, we have to put all of the evidence we plan to use at the hearing in a 3-ring binder, and we have to present our evidence to the Court and the opposing lawyer. This means that, in total, we have to make FOUR identical 3 ring binders full of evidence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This can all happen well before a final decree of divorce is submitted and signed by the judge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, that is part of the answer to the question that started this entire diatribe, "Why is Divorce So Expensive?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Basically, the more you and soon-to-be ex-spouse can agree upon, the cheaper it's going to be for you both to get divorced!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you need a qualified and experienced Divorce attorney, give us a call. We'll be happy to help you through your divorce without costing you unnecessary money. 702-435-2121</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-9605622538454898472016-04-20T15:53:00.000-07:002016-04-20T15:53:23.648-07:00Attorney's Fees and Costs<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the recent update to Nevada family law, Assembly Bill 263 (AB263) spelled out exactly how you may be entitled to getting some of your legal expenses back from your former spouse when going through family law proceedings:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">125.040 1. In any suit for divorce the court may, in its </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">discretion, upon application by either party and notice to the other </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">party, require either party to pay moneys necessary to assist the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">other party in accomplishing one or more of the following:</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. The court may make any order affecting property of the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">parties, or either of them, which it may deem necessary or desirable </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to accomplish the purposes of this section. Such orders shall be </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">made by the court only after taking into consideration the financial </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">situation of each of the parties.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In plain language, that means that if you are a "stay-at-home" spouse and are unemployed, your spouse cannot either financially hold you hostage if you want to seek a divorce, nor can they go hire a super high-priced divorce attorney and expect you to crumble to all their demands because you don't have any of your own money for your own attorney. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, they <i>can </i>hire the $25,000 attorney, but that means if you don't have any money, they'd have to pay for YOU to have a $25,000 attorney, too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"To err is human", as the old saying goes, but what happens to you if you've "erred" more than once with regard to DUI?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">... you may find yourself in serious trouble with the Courts. Everything in life is (or is supposed to be) a balance. For every "give" there is likely a commensurate "take". What that means here in Las Vegas is that our 'round-the-clock bars, clubs and casinos come at the cost of incredibly harsh punishments for driving under the influence of alcohol (among other things).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So what options are there - aside from a harsh prison sentence - for repeat DUI Offenders in Vegas? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In Nevada, if you get arrested for DUI 3 times within 7 years, you will be facing Felony charges and you stand a good chance of actually going to prison. However there is one option - Felony DUI Court. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Felony DUI Court is a lengthy, intensive and (I'm not going to lie to you) very expensive program. It is not fun, however, depending on your preferences, you may want it over communal showers, government issued clothing and a mattress that's as thin as a matzah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Although the SOP (Serious Offender Program) might be able to keep you out of prison, it is very strict. People who enroll in, or are sentenced to SOP can expect to:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This fancy little device attaches to your ankle. (You know, the <i>other</i> ankle, since you'll already have your GPS House Arrest bracelet on one already.) The SCRAM bracelet tests your skin and sweat for any alcohol coming from you and it WILL detect if you have ANYTHING to drink. Included inconveniences: you must sit near a power outlet for three hours each day to recharge the SCRAM bracelet; you must physically report to the SCRAM office three times per week so they can download the stored data, and you must pay a daily fee to wear the SCRAM bracelet. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is it better than going to prison? Well, that's for you to decide. SOP and its little brother MOP (Moderate Offenders Program) are expensive, embarrassing, inconvenient and extremely stressful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even though I am a criminal defense attorney who makes money defending the accused in court, I would be extremely happy if everyone reading this blog would make a commitment to yourself that you will simply NEVER drive after you've been drinking and that when you plan on partying, you include a Designated Driver in your plans. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-1009082323972276822016-03-14T09:15:00.000-07:002016-03-14T09:15:36.397-07:00It's about time to end "debtor's prison".<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/department-justice-states-should-not-jailed-over-fine-nonpayment-n537796" target="_blank">News from the U.S. Justice Department</a></div>
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I was quite pleased to see this article in the news today. A relevant quote from the article"<br />
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It's about time that our court system stops punitively punishing people with excessive fines that they have no hope of paying, and then jailing them (thus preventing them from potentially finding work in order to have some sort of income) when they can't pay the fines.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-40990413314790747262016-03-04T15:16:00.000-08:002016-03-04T15:16:39.792-08:00Conspiracy - A cautionary tale.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's a story. This is a true story, but the names have been changed/omitted to protect the privacy of the involved parties:</div>
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So there's this guy. He's young, 20's, smart, level-headed, has an above-average job as head of security at a clothing store inside one of the casinos, he has (had) plans to become a police officer one day. Great guy. We'll call him Phil.</div>
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Phil was hanging out with his buddies one night, doing what guys in their 20's do in Vegas.</div>
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Some of this: </h4>
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And maybe some of this:</h4>
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Well, after the *ahem* above-referenced festivities, they got in the car, Phil being the responsible designated driver for his drunk buddies, and started to leave the casino parking garage. </div>
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On the way out his buddy "Chuck" asks him to stop the car. Assuming that his friend was about to "summon the Earl", create a "technicolor yawn", or simply live up to his name, Phil stopped the car. Instead of "bending and sending", Chuck runs over to a convertible automobile parked with the top down and the back seat loaded with boxes containing as-yet-unknown booty... er... bounty. </div>
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Chuck, being the <strike>low-life</strike> intoxicated person exercising questionable judgement that he was at the time, starts taking boxes out of the convertible. Phil, thinking his friend had lost his mind puts the car in park, gets out, and proceeds to ask his friend what the Chuck he's doing. </div>
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Instead of answering, Chuck chucks a box at Phil. As a reflex, Phil catches it. Chuck runs to the car with another box and starts prompting Phil to get back in and drive. </div>
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What did Phil just do? I'll tell you. In that one split-second of confusion Phil just committed Conspiracy to Commit Auto Burglary.<br />
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Phil was later found (seriously, the security cameras in Vegas don't mess around), questioned, arrested and charged with a felony.<br />
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It's that easy.</h4>
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Now, Phil's job is gone, his dreams of ever being in law enforcement are gone and he may or may not do some prison time. He will almost certainly be on probation for a while. </div>
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I don't tell you these things to depress you or scare you. It's just that most people go through their lives unaware of how quickly some very serious things can happen. </div>
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If you have been questioned by the police or charged with a crime, please get legal representation NOW!</h3>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-74985864697048478342016-03-03T10:40:00.000-08:002016-03-03T11:32:52.808-08:00Today's topic, Larceny from Person (aka Pickpocket) <h2 style="text-align: center;">
PICKPOCKETS IN LAS VEGAS - BEWARE!</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is pickpocketing, legally? Is it really so bad? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The answer to this is, yes, it really is that bad. Probably because Nevada draws in so many tourists, our legal system takes a very dim view of said tourists falling victim to thieves, so much so that they've made pickpocketing (legally known as "Larceny from (a) Person) a felony, without regard to the value of the item taken. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As is the theme of this blog, I'd like to explain to you what that means in the real world. For example, let's say you are sitting at a bar and you pay for your drink with a $10 and you get $1.86 back in change. (Those Vegas prices!) You don't immediately pick up your change because you have important drinking to get to and then you get distracted by your Tinder app. The next time you look up at the bar, your change has pulled a Criss Angel and vanished! (I just googled him... do you realize that he's 48 years old! I thought he was like 37... anyway...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, is this irritating? Yes. Is it illegal? Sure. But someone just stole $1.86 off a bar top, we're not talking about a serious crime here. Misdemeanor theft or petit larceny at best <i>IF </i>you can even find the perpetrator. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's say that you had immediately put your change in your back pocket before your Tinder notification buzzed you into distraction and then this happens!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If someone, anyone, (regardless of butt-ninja status): <i>Steals, takes, or carries away without permission, from the person of another, any property, with the intent to deprive the owner permanently thereof</i> then they've just committed a felony. Even if it was only that one, single, bourbon-dampened, crumpled dollar bill (that's probably been places that would haunt your dreams).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A lady walks into a restroom and sets her old $25 purse on the floor of the stall, the purse has a couple inexpensive items of makeup and a $50 camera inside, suddenly a hand reaches under and grabs the purse. This would be misdemeanor Petit Larceny (it's a misdemeanor because the value of the purse combined with the items inside is less than $650)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If someone snatches a the exact same purse from this woman's shoulder - Felony</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Basically if someone* steals anything off your body, from your hand, or from your pocket, even if it's a pack of gum, they've committed a Felony. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*Now obviously this doesn't apply if you're being detained by the police or casino security and they empty your pockets without your permission, let's not be silly! Notice that part of the legal-ese that says that the person taking the property must be taking it <i>with the intent to deprive you of it permanently</i>. If you're intoxicated and unruly and security scoops you up and puts you in "casino jail", they're going to empty your pockets. Please don't try to hire a lawyer and claim that all the casino security guards 'robbed' you because they took stuff out of your pockets**</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">**sadly we have to add this part because it's really happened. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-1641788166179315582016-02-24T14:19:00.001-08:002016-02-25T09:17:36.888-08:00Since we're in Las Vegas, let's talk about Enhancements!<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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Let's talk about enhancements in the legal sense. And no, it won't be as much fun as the other kind. </div>
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There are crimes and there are enhancements to crimes. Enhancements are extenuating circumstances surrounding the commission of a crime that can give the prosecution more ways to "throw the book at you". </div>
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There are many examples of enhancements. A few of the more common ones are:</div>
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<li>Causing Substantial Bodily Harm to another person</li>
<li>Committing a crime if you're a known gang member</li>
<li>Committing a crime when the victim is a vulnerable person or is over the age of 60.</li>
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What do all those mean? Allow me to explain. </div>
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- Walking up to someone and demanding their money could liberally be construed as a robbery, especially if the person assumes that they will be harmed in some way if they don't comply, but walking up to someone with a gun or a knife or an ax in your hand and making the same verbal demand means that you have committed that crime while using a deadly weapon, and that's an immediate enhancement. </div>
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- Assault is basically you threatening to use unlawful force or violence against someone else. Grabbing someone by the shirt and making a fist could be assault if the victim believes they're about to get punched. This scenario would be misdemeanor assault, but do the same thing except you have a knife in your hand? You've just committed a felony, sir. Enhancements! It's now going to go to court as "Assault with deadly weapon", not just 'assault'. This also goes for battery as well. If you get into a fight with someone and you punch them in the face or the stomach, you're probably only guilty of misdemeanor battery, but if you hit someone with a brick or a beer bottle you may find yourself on the receiving end of "Battery with Deadly Weapon" felony charges! </div>
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What about this "Victim over 60 / Vulnerable Person" stuff? </h4>
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If someone commits a crime against a person (e.g. assault, battery, robbery, kidnapping, coercion, domestic violence, etc.), and that person is over the age of 60, that person could be in for some extra prison time due to the victim's age. It's an automatic enhancement that the District Attorney's office will add whenever a victim fits this criteria. </div>
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A Vulnerable person is defined by law as: <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 10pt; text-align: justify;">a person 18 years of age or older who:</span></div>
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What is "Substantial Bodily Harm"?<br />
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Simply speaking, this is when a fight or a battery goes way too far. Let's say Fred and Barney get into a fight. Barney's mad at something Fred said after one beer too many and Barney knocks Fred to the ground and punches him. If it stops here, this is just a misdemeanor crime. However, if Barney continues to pummel poor Fred until Fred's jaw and ribs are broken and he's missing some teeth, then there's a good chance that Barney will get charged with "Battery causing Substantial Bodily Harm". </div>
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Since most people don't sit around reading law textbooks all day, I like to try and illustrate in real-world terms just how quickly something you may think of as being "minor" can turn ugly. If you find yourself in a situation where you've been or are about to be accused of a crime, even if you think it's something silly, you need legal representation. We are more than happy to help you, call us today!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12594091429743884040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850463201490314054.post-15187169536866367312016-02-10T15:08:00.000-08:002016-02-10T15:08:28.115-08:00Son, it's time your mother and I had a talk with you about... <h2 style="text-align: center;">
DRUGS.</h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #5d5d5d; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In Nevada, it is illegal to posses a prohibited or controlled substance (without a prescription). Depending on the type of substance involved, the criminal charges one may face here range from a misdemeanor through a very serious felony offense, both Nevada state and federal. There is a range of possible criminal penalties a you may face including county jail time through life imprisonment.</span></span></div>
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...<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">back in the day, you might want to know more about Drug Trafficking. </span><div>
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How much does it cost to get out of jail in Clark County? </h2>
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See, for a very long time after California implemented its famous (infamous?) Three-Strikes Law, Nevada still boasted very old-fashioned, and very low, bail amounts. In plain language this means that getting arrested for a crime here was "cheaper" (for the criminal) than being arrested for the same thing in LA or San Diego or San Bernardino. Let's use Grand Larceny: Auto as an example. In rough figures, getting caught for that crime in SoCal would likely cost you $10,000 - 20,000 to get out of jail before your hearing. Here in Nevada it would cost you a lofty $3,000. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>nyway, the point is that Nevada decided to basically make it more expensive to get arrested here in an effort to dissuade prolific career criminals from effectuating their dastardly deeds here in our city of sin.<br /><div>
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As always, if you've been accused of a crime, you NEED the representation of an experienced litigator. I'd be happy to help! </div>
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