Car Service Accidents and Uber Accidents
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Car Service Accidents and Uber Accidents in Modesto California” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left”][vc_column_text]Car Service Accidents and Uber Accidents – In recent years, more and more people have been using car services to get around. Many of these drivers are also driving for Uber. Accidents happen when a vehicle is not being driven carefully or the driver has...
Read MoreCriminal Defense: Unconsciousness of Modesto Ca
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Criminal Defense: Unconsciousness [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] If you are unconscious while you commit a crime, California law excuses your actions. This legal defense is applicable to people who, for example, commit criminal acts while sleeping, delirious, suffering from an epileptic seizure, or who are involuntarily intoxicated. On that note, it is important to understand that if...
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Criminal Defense: Self-Defense / Defense of Others Modesto Ca
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Criminal Defense: Self-Defense / Defense of Others Modesto Ca [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Under California’s self-defense law, if you injure or kill another person in self-defense or in defending another person, your conduct will be excused. But your actions must be reasonable under the circumstances. In other words, if you believe that you or another person face...
Read MoreCriminal Defenses: Mistake of Fact – Modesto Ca
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Criminal Defenses: Mistake of Fact – Modesto Ca [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] If you act under an honest and reasonable mistake of fact, you are not guilty of a crime. If, for example, you are accused of stealing your neighbor’s lawnmower but you did so because you believed it was the one you previously lent him that...
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Criminal Defense: Mistaken Identity – Modesto Ca
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Criminal Defense: Mistaken Identity – Modesto Ca [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Mistaken eyewitness identification is the leading cause of wrongful conviction. It can happen because: you (your physical description, your clothes, your car, etc.) happen to resemble the actual perpetrator, someone assumes you are to blame for a criminal act (for example, an elder’s doctor reports you...
Read MoreCriminal Defense: Entrapment – Modesto Ca
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Criminal Defense: Entrapment – Modesto Ca [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Modesto California’s entrapment defense applies to situations where you would not have committed the alleged offense but for the harassment, threats, or coercion of the police or their agents. If you were entrapped, it basically means that the police, who were most likely undercover persuaded you to...
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Criminal Defense: Duress
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Criminal Defense: Duress [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] If you commit a crime because you reasonably believe your life is in immediate danger, California law excuses your criminal conduct. “Duress” excuses criminal culpability when you only commit the crime because another person’s threats or menacing actions compel you to do so. But there’s one crime that duress does...
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Criminal Defense: Double Jeopardy
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Criminal Defense: Double Jeopardy [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] The “double jeopardy” clauses of the U.S. Constitution and the California Constitution protect you from being prosecuted a second time for the same offense following an acquittal or a conviction (but typically not a mistrial), and facing multiple punishments for the same offense. Let’s say that a jury acquits...
Read MoreCriminal Defense: Accidents – Modesto Ca
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Criminal Defense: Accidents – Modesto Ca [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Accidents happen. Fortunately, California law recognizes this and excuses alleged criminal conduct that occurs accidentally. If you accidentally commit an act that amounts to a crime and you do so without criminal intent or negligence you should bear no criminal liability but may need the help of...
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