The crime of driving under the influence in Glendale – in and of itself – is enormous and consequential, even if you don’t cause damage to life or limb and you cooperate fully with authorities – and even if you were just barely over the limit. But evidence mounting against…
Last Friday, 53-year-old Jeffrey David Kirby of Costa Mesa was sentenced for felony vehicular manslaughter while driving under the influence in Southern California. In March 2009, Kirby lost control of his 2004 Ferrari and smashed into Charles David Lewis, a famous mixed martial arts entrepreneur and founder of the closing…
Last Tuesday, an emotionally charged Southern California DUI trial got underway in Fullerton. The defendant, Angel Herrera Leal, stands accused of perpetrating a horrific fatal DUI accident on an Anaheim freeway. According to news and police reports, in the early morning hours of December 27, 2008, Leal – who had…
If you have been arrested for driving under the influence in Los Angeles, your world can turn upside down in just hours. Whether you were incorrectly assessed as DUI (the police made a mistake on your blood work or breathalyzer reading), or you were barely over California’s legal limit of…
From Burbank DUI drivers to debris in lanes to ferocious traffic snarls, Southern California’s freeways present a gallery of challenges to drivers. Here’s a quick guide to the obstacles we frequently encounter thanks to our tangled freeway system. Rush-hour gridlock from 6 AM through 9 PM… and often on weekends.…
Police investigators in the Michael Jackson case are almost ready to present their case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for a formal felony criminal filing. Sources within law enforcement are focusing their sights on Dr. Conrad Murray. As of the date of this blog post, Dr. Murray…
The Los Angeles County Coroner released the autopsy results in the Michael Jackson case. They ruled that the pop star’s death was a result of a “homicide”. From the very beginning, leading Los Angeles criminal defense attorneys were indicating that the death must first be determined to be a homicide…
Ryan Jenkins, the reality star whose slight brush with fame on television, killed himself after Southern California prosecutors filed murder charges for the death of his ex-wife. Just over one week ago the body of Jasmine Fiore had been found in a dumpster in Buena Park, California. The body had…
Three days after a former model’s body was found stuffed in a small carry-on suitcase, the facts are beginning to appear more clear. Jasmine Fiore, 28, an aspiring real estate agent and former model was found dead as a result of murder……the person of interest, her former husband. The purported…
Former Tennessee quarterback, Steve McNair, who was found this past Saturday shot and killed in his girlfriend’s apartment was determined to be murdered. Also found dead was Sahel Kazemi with one gunshot wound to the head. From the very beginning, investigators were very quiet about what happened while they were…