Clients often become concerned when they hear their attorney discuss plea deals soon after being retained. This concern is magnified when they go to court and hear the prosecutor and judge focus on pleading the case. Indeed, many clients believe that their defense attorney is trying to just get them…
Effective January 1, 2017, Missouri sex offenders guilty of 13 different sex crimes based on acts committed on or after August 28, 2006, are subject to additional security requirements. They will be required to wear GPS monitoring devices for the rest of their lives. This includes defendants who were sentenced…
The NJ Appellate Division recently decided the companion cases of State v. Fitzpatrick and State v. Brister. These cases focus primarily on the statutory bar date prior to which the State must appeal from a trial court’s denial of the imposition of a Drug Offender Restraining Order, or DORO. Although…