Being Accused of Insurance Fraud?: Here’s What You Need to Do
If You’re Being Accused of Insurance Fraud, Here’s What You Need to Do: Insurance fraud is handled differently state-by-state. It can be considered a misdemeanor (less serious) or a felony (severe) depending on the type of fraud committed and the number of damages incurred. In the following article, we’ll be talking more specifically about insurance […]
Criminally Negligent Homicide: What Exactly is It?
It doesn’t take malice to take someone else’s life. In cases of criminally negligent homicide, all it takes is someone not paying attention when they should be. A person’s poor decision can lead to the end of another person’s life, and when that happens, the courts get involved. No matter how someone’s life ends, their […]
What You Need to Know If You’ve Been Charged With Online Solicitation of a Minor
You can never truly know who you’re talking to online, which creates opportunities for you to fall into significant legal trouble. If you’re not cautious with who you talk to on the internet, and what you talk about, you can be charged with a felony. The proliferation of apps like Tinder and Bumble has made […]
8 Times You Need to Hire a Houston Criminal Defense Attorney
Have you ever woken up to a small cell, a thin pad that barely qualifies as a mattress, wearing clothes that definitely aren’t yours? If you have, you know that this is a decent description of jail. Landing in jail, especially for your first time, can be intimidating, scary, and anxiety-inducing. You may not know […]
Wire Fraud in a Wireless Age
The current generation of young adults knows to take everything they read online with a grain of salt. Likewise, the drive to make television more honest is almost as old as television; for example, the original motive for producing Sesame Street was to make a television show that used the same catchy tunes and colorful […]
The Doctrine of Chances: What Does it Have to do with Sexual Assault Cases?
When reports first surfaced that Bill Cosby was facing charges of sexual assault, millions of people who had grown up watching Cosby on TV were shocked. He had a reputation for providing wholesome entertainment, whether as Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show (arguably the most likable of TV dads of the 80s) or from Picture […]
Rosendo Rodriguez Becomes the Fourth Person Executed in Texas in 2018
On March 27, 2018, the state of Texas executed 38-year-old Rosendo Rodriguez III, making him the fourth person executed in Texas so far this year. Rodriguez was known in the media as the “suitcase killer” because the UPC code on a suitcase was an important piece of evidence in his capital murder case. The Murders, […]
80s Hollywood Star Pleads Guilty to DWI in Texas
If you were a child or teenager in the 1980s, you probably remember Lou Diamond Phillips for his appearances in films based on true stories. In 1987, he portrayed Ritchie Valens, one of the singers whose death marked “the day the music died,” in La Bamba, and the following year, he appeared in Stand and […]
Kenneth McDuff: The Serial Killer Sentenced to Death and Then Released on Parole
Texas is famous for its use of capital punishment; more than a third of executions in the United States since the 1970s have taken place in Texas. Another notable fact about capital murder in Texas is that in capital murder cases, the decision rests with the jury whether to sentence a convicted defendant to death […]
Finding the Right Attorney for Sexual Assault Charges
If a guest at a party you are attending says that he or she is a lawyer, what do you imagine? You probably imagine that person wearing a suit, making eloquent speeches in a courtroom to establish reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors about whether his or her client is guilty of the charges […]