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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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 ...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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

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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 ...

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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...

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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 ...

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Over the last week or so it occurred to me that I've missed something by concentrating on advising people to not talk to the police in a variety of ci...

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As a casual chat with on-duty police officers who get out of police cruisers to 'just wanna see what you're doing today.' This has been trending news ...