News: Criminal Defense

October 20, 2009 by Ahmed and Sukaram, Attorneys at Law

According to an unreported case in the California legal system, People v. Fontana, the Fifth Division of the First District Court of Appeals...

October 6 By Parrish Collins

Albuquerque will host the International Drug Policy Reform Conference on November 12-14. Albuquerque hosted the conference once before in 2001...

July 10, 2009

The California budget deficit has state legislators thinking of new ways to bring the state out of its $26 billion dollar deficit. The latest way proposed is to legalize the sale of marijuana...

June 30, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

A federal judge sentenced Bernard Madoff to spend the rest of his life in prison for an extraordinarily evil fraud. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin described the toll the multibillion-dollar fraud had on its victims as he sentenced Madoff to the maximum of...

June 26, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Bernard Madoff, 71, convicted of masterminding the largest Ponzi scheme of all time, will be sentenced by Judge Denny Chin of the U.S.

June 26, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Four-year-old Haylee Donathan is now in the custody of her grandmother, Mary Watson, who says that she will not give the girl back to her mother.

June 26, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Tennessee resident Michael Wayne Campbell is accused of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor for placing photos of the faces of three young girls on the nude bodies of adult females.

June 26, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Middle School student in Arizona was illegally strip-searched in 2003.

June 25, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Ed Thomas, 2005 NFL high school football coach of the year, was shot and killed at Aplington-Parkersburg High School in Iowa early Wednesday.  The gunman, who has been identified as Mark Becker, 24, was arrested at a residence in Parkersburg shortly after the shooting...

June 25, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

A newborn baby, less than a day old, was found in a shoebox in the lobby of an apartment building in Hempstead, Long Island on Sunday night.  The police were contacted by a resident who heard sounds coming from the shoebox and discovered the infant...

June 24, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Twelve days following a home invasion in Arivaca, Arizona, police have arrested three Arizona residents on charges of first-degree murder, burglary, and aggravated assault.  Police identified the suspects as Shawna Forde, 41, Jason Eugene Bush, 34, and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42. Two suspects have ties to anti-immigration groups.

June 23, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

The $22 billion cruise industry has grown in recent years, and there have been enough reports of on-board assault submitted to the FBI that a Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act has been submitted to committee by Senator John Kerry, D-MA. 

June 23, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Philip Markoff, 23, a man accused of murdering a woman whom he met online through Craigslist pleaded not guilty in Suffolk Superior Court Monday.  Earlier this year, online community posting site Craigslist stopped allowing listings for erotic services largely because of...

June 23, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

An Ohio repeat drug offender may be released from prison 6 years before completing his 10 year sentence due to what appears to be a typo on the verdict form signed by the jurors who convicted him in Summit County Common Pleas Court.

June 22, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Timothy Wayne Murray, a murder suspect who escaped from St. Tammany Parish jail in Louisiana Thursday, was captured early Sunday and returned to jail.

June 22, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Mary Wilkerson, 57, vanished from her Pennsylvania home on June 19th.  Authorities were able to find her trapped in the trunk of her car due to the signal from a Blackberry mobile device that her son had left in the car.

June 22, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

On Friday, Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, five executives of his company Stanford Financial Group, and one former Antiguan bank regulator were charged with massive fraud.  Prosecutors claim that Stanford and the others were involved in a $7 billion Ponzi scheme to defraud investors.

June 19, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

Although 47 states have laws that allow convicts limited access to genetic evidence, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday that convicts do not have a constitutional right to use DNA evidence in hopes of proving their innocence long after they were found guilty of a crime...

June 18, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

A teenager accused of killing and mutilating 19 pet cats in Miami, Florida, has been released on bond and is under surveillance.  Tyler...

June 16, 2009 by Suzanne Conlon

The former top executive of American International Group Inc. plundered an AIG retirement program of billions of dollars because he was angry at being forced out of the company...