In recent the case of McDonald v. Chicago, the United States Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 saying that the Second Amendment does in fact protect our right to keep and bear arms.  The Court was overturning the City of Chicago’s laws restricting one’s right to own certain guns and banning the possession of all handguns. This decision went much further than the two year old case of District of Columbia v. Heller, which never came out and used the words of the Second Amendment.  You can view the new opinion on the Supreme Court website. For opinions or explanations about the …

Proposition 19, California’s initiative to legalize the possession, growth and use of marijuana by people over 21 is losing ground according to the latest Field Poll.  The latest poll shows that more potential voters are likely to oppose it than support it. The poll goes on to show that the division appears to be on ethnic lines.  While more white voters support the legalization, black, hispanic and asian voters tend to be against it. Let’s wake up our pot smoking friends and get on the move.  Maybe we should offer brownies to people if they show us their “I voted” stickers.  For the …

Hemet, California Police announced the arrests of two men on Saturday in connection with the recent urban terrorism against the City of Hemet and the Hemet, California Police Department.  A joint task for of city, county and federal law enforcement arrested Nicholas Smit of Hemet, and Steven Hansen of Homeland, California.  Smit was arrested for attempted murder of a police officer and other charges.  Hansen is said to be a convicted arsonist who was arrested for a parole violation. These arrests followed six months of urban terrorism against the City of Hemet and Hemet Police which included multiple acts of arson …

Michael Eugene Richardson, of Chula Vista, California was arrested Thursday for allegedly having sex with his minor niece.  His arrest comes just two days after his wife and mother-in-law were killed in what law enforcement calls a traffic related homicide. California Highway Patrol officers who investigated the traffic accident describe the vehicle’s plunging sixty feet down an embankment as suspicious because there were no skid marks found on the road above.  The cause of the accident remains to be seen.  The cause of death appears to be from the crash impact.  Richardson is said to own his own automobile repair …

Luis Mijangos, a paraplegic man from Orange County was arrested and charged with multiple counts of violating federal laws as he extorted sexually explicit images from women and girls in the Southland.  Federal authorities allege that he utilizes software to gather photos or video from the victims.  He then emails the victims and threatens to expose the photos publicly. Interestingly, instead of asking for money, he asks his victims to send him additional sexually explicit photos and video.  It appears that many of his victims did what he asked.  When authorities searched Mijangos’ home they found dozens of videos from …

Beverly Hills attorney Michael Inman was arrested yesterday after he allegedly brought heroin and methamphetamine into a courthouse lockup facility in downtown Los Angeles.  Inman was held for felony charges and bail was set at $190,000. The location of the arrest which is within the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, or CCB as it has been known for years, houses hundreds of inmates who are attending court hearings in the massive courthouse.  Sheriff’s officials say that a drug dog that was there to check inmates for narcotics alerted on Mr. Inman after which Inman was found to be in possession of black tar …

Singer Chris Brown was recently denied a visa for travel to the United Kingdom because of his criminal history.  As a result of the visa denial, Brown’s tour had to be postponed.  As a result of postponing his tour, Brown is out a lot of money. What does this have to do with me, you ask?..After all, I’m a U.S. citizen…It’s not like I’m going to get deported or something, right?.. Criminal defendants are effected by their cases in more ways than they know.  Not only can non-citizens be deported, they may also be denied re-entry into the country or …

The United States Supreme Court just, or should I say unjustly, ruled that crime suspects must affirmatively invoke their Miranda rights in order to afford themselves the protections under the landmark decision in Miranda vs. Arizona.  What this means to the average Joe is that instead of simply refusing to speak, a defendant, who is in the custody and law enforcement and subject to interrogation, can no longer simply remain silent.  He or she must now say something like “I want to talk to my lawyer”, or at least, “I don’t want to speak to you”, in order to stop …

In a landmark decision effecting over half the states, the United States Supreme Court voted 6-3 saying the states cannot sentence juvenile offenders to life in prison without the possibility of parole unless the conviction involves the offense of murder. In reaching the decision, the court considered the laws of many of countries when they reasoned that juvenile offenders are entitled to have at least some real possibility of rehabilitation and release from custody for offenses other than murder. While a representative from the District Attorney’s Association suggested this decision was a “get out of jail free ticket” for juvenile offenders, the Justices created …

The Los Angeles City Attorney charged Ralphs grocery stores with multiple counts of overcharging their customers.  The Los Angeles County Department of Weights and Measures recently conducted an undercover investigation of Ralphs Grocery Stores and Ralphs failed miserably.  As a result, Los Angeles City Attorney Don Cocek filed multiple charges against Ralphs for overcharging their customers. By the way, this is not the first time this has happened. Here is how it works:  The store gets caught overcharging and criminal charges get filed.  Nobody goes to jail, but the store agrees to plead guilty and pay a fine for the violations.  In the last …