We don’t get many murder-for-hire cases to analyze in the Law Review, so when I found one out of Southern California, I pounced on it. PORTER’S MURDER CASE Allow me to digress. Ravn Whitington in our office skillfully handles our criminal law matters, [...]
Overview: This week’s Law Review explains how a ‘crow’ and a ‘spark plug’ are considered under the Penal Code as Burglar’s Tools, so think twice before you take your pet crow into a store shopping and risk getting caught for shoplifting/burglary. And consider whether minor [...]
Overview: What duties does a jail owe to its arrestees? If the jailors ignore pleas for protection or screams by an arrestee, may the jailors and the County be liable? You bet. Read this week’s Law Review on the recent criminal law/civil rights case, Jonathan [...]
A Truckee-Tahoe fixture since 1969, Porter Simon has a long tradition of not only top-notch legal services, but community involvement. The firm’s history traces the many changes and transitions that Truckee and the surrounding area have seen over the years. As the firm continues to [...]
Overview: The California Supreme Court resolved an unsettled question of California criminal law involving burglary in the case of People v. Hugo Garcia, deciding that if a burglar enters into a structure with intent to commit a felony like robbery or rape, and then enters [...]
Overview: Navarete v Meyer is a fascinating new Court of Appeal case where liability was found against a shot gun seat passenger for shouting ‘go faster’ to the driver when she knew he was approaching dips on a residential street, so he foolishly punched it [...]
Overview: ‘Shark finning’ is the practice of removing the fins from a living shark, almost always used to make shark fin soup, a traditional Chinese dish. In 2011 after finding that ‘tens of millions of sharks die each year’ due to shark finning, California passed [...]
Overview: An LA police officer assumed she had committed the perfect crime, but alas, 23 years after she shot and killed the fiancé of her lover, staging the crime scene to look like a robbery gone wrong, DNA evidence collected at the Van Nuys crime [...]
Overview: This weeks Law Review highlights Jim Porter’s favorite word ‘knucklehead’ which the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals used to describe a Fresno resident who tested how far his kid’s laser would point by…you guessed it, pointing it at helicopters flying over his apartment, for [...]