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. . .Maybe, It’s Not That Simple The news blew up news feeds last week: NINTH CIRCUIT PANEL RULES NON-VIOLENT FELONS CAN OWN GUNS That headline is fro...

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Understanding the Impact of HB 1600 on Sealed Juvenile Records and Firearm Rights In the state of Washington, juvenile court records are often sealed ...

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Are You Affected? We Can Help Significant changes to Washington's firearms laws are already in effect. If you've lost your gun rights, understanding t...

A Plea Negotiation is Not the Same as a Plea Agreement We need to talk about plea negotiations. It’s not a popular subject on most criminal defense at...

A Breathalyzer Below .08 is Not a DUI Defense When There’s an Alleged ‘Totality of Circumstances’ We get this a lot: a DUI defendant headed into an ar...

How A Washington Expungement Can Work for You I just heard from a former client who received an expungement last summer. His original case - we did no...

You may not recognize the name - Dr. Henry Lee - but you have almost definitely run across his work, probably frequently. Dr. Henry Lee is a forensic ...

It seems like the last few months have been a long, continuous slog of various people in the media, hundreds of politicians, and millions of social me...

We have a lawyer friend in New England who coined the term “Backstairs Justice System” a few years ago. It’s a highly descriptive term to those of us ...

Despite what 30 years of Law & Order has taught us, serious criminal charges are almost never brought overnight. The police, FBI, prosecutors, and...

I just heard a story from a friend, it went like this: a newly graduated law student was arrested in California by the FBI on a mortgage fraud charge....

The final season of Billions just started. It reminds us of a scene in the first season which was, criminal law wise, dead on: Quick review: When it s...

A true story: Three years ago Mark went out with friends to a bar a few miles from his home. Mark was two years removed from playing football for pere...

There are many, many myths floating around about the criminal justice system with more seemingly piling up every week, myths that seem to get more ing...

The NFL season starts next week and while we can’t say how the Seahawks will do (The Athletic has them pegged at 9-10 wins . . . unfortunately, they h...

Writing this month in the hope that I get some feedback, some discussion, some comments, about something that's been bothering me for a while now. A n...

Phones, Cars, Watches, Refrigerators, and Evidence This was going to be a slightly different article about the Alex Murdaugh trial and guilty verdict ...

HBO’s The Night Of was a huge hit a few summers ago. It wasn’t so much a ‘who done it’ but a pretty in depth look at the criminal justice system as a ...

We need to talk about being arrested and charged with a crime. As a rule, criminal defense attorneys, myself included, focus on the process, court app...

This story was relayed to us from a lawyer friend in New England: “A good friend of our family was murdered in November 2014. She was running at dusk ...