tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60375795709109482462024-03-08T03:33:46.687-08:00Law blog in Las VegasThis blog is intended for general information about Nevada law. Anyone who has a specific legal problem should always consult an attorney. The Wright Law Offices | Las Vegas family Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071240655380080775noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037579570910948246.post-47654877616354448792020-09-03T12:37:00.000-07:002020-09-03T12:37:14.015-07:00C. Fred Rinker (1900 - 1992) Marine in Battle of Belleau Wood<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px;">Fred Rinker (1900-1992) was a friend of the family. His was one of the first most impactful deaths of my youth. I was 14 when he passed. The second most impactful would be his wife’s death a few years later, the first, and last time, I attended an open casket service.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Fred fought in World War One in the Battle of Belleau Wood ( https://youtu.be/09yjvF1jxQ0 ) and lied about his age to join the Marine Corps. Former Nevada Governor Mike O’Callaghan had this to say about Fred:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">“Fri, Nov 9, 2001 (4:42 a.m.)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Almost 70 years have passed since I learned about the Civil War from veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic. They were then three old men who lived either by themselves or with relatives. One of them had his quarters above a huge granary just a stone's toss from the Mississippi River. All of them led separate lives, but their common experiences in battle brought them together. I benefited from their willingness to tell about experiences that included the battle at Gettysburg. They lighted a fire that made me seek more historical information about the Civil War and other chapters of American life. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">My father and his friends would visit about their experiences during World War I, which had ended only 15 or 16 years earlier. When they were talking I would crawl out of my bed and quietly sit on the stair steps listening to their experiences. The curiosity they raised in my mind kept me asking questions of every WW I veteran. The late Fred Rinker of Henderson was the last man who told me of his experiences and kept my attention about what many old-timers called the Great War.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Rinker was a U.S. Marine at Belleau Wood, where his battalion went into battle with 965 men and 26 officers. Several days later Lt. Col. Frederic M. Wise wrote, "Now before me stood 350 men and six officers. For 17 days they hadn't had a hot cup of coffee or a bite of hot food. They hadn't taken off their shoes. They hadn't had a chance to wash their faces, even drinking water had been scarce for days." During World War II Fred served in the U.S. Army.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I had the good fortune to live through WW II and had the opportunity to serve as an infantryman during the Korean War. Most of what I learned about WW II was from the friends and relatives who fought it.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">More at: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2001/nov/09/where-i-stand----mike-ocallaghan-veterans-today-is/</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">On May 29, 1975 it was reported that Fred was to attend a war memorial dedication in Henderson and helped unveil the memorial. (Henderson Home News, May 29, 1975 “War Memorial Dedication wet for May 30 Here”).</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Fred Rinker also fought in World War II and accumulated numerous medals in both wars, including the Croix de guerre from World War One.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">He chose not to be buried in a veteran’s cemetery so that he could be with his wife in death. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He and Lois has married right before World War Two so that “someone could get his death benefits.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Anthony M. Wright</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">September 3, 2020</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">#fredrinker #warhero #veteran #battleofbelleauwood</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p>The Wright Law Offices | Las Vegas family Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071240655380080775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037579570910948246.post-41330972903869839142019-11-11T09:29:00.000-08:002020-09-03T12:39:52.821-07:00Charles Fred Rinker (Devil Dog)<p>After Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day, we continue to reflect on our soldiers and their service in peacetime and in conflict. </p><p>I want to remember Charles Fred Rinker, a Devil Dog I knew who passed when I was younger. I reflect on this Veteran who served in both World War One, having falsified his age to join, and World War Two. I remember seeing his helmet that had a bullet in it. The helmet undoubtedly saved his life. He married Lois as he was going into WWII, he said, because he wanted a widow to receive his military benefits over no one at all. Instead of dying in the war, he continued to be married to her for the rest of his life, many decades. He attended some veterans events in his later years, being one of the few to have served in both world wars. He had a display case with his many awards. I don’t remember for sure, but I think he had a Purple Heart and a Distinguished service Cross. I tried looking his name up on line, but could find nothing about him. I’m left with my memories. His funeral was in the early 1990s. Fred is buried in Henderson, Nevada.</p><p><br /></p><p>***</p><p>Followup</p><p>The investigator in me wouldn’t let it go. I knew there had to me more out there about Fred, even though he passed in the infancy or the Internet, surely more was published. In the comments below, I will post whatever I find. I already found one article where he was present during a commemoration of a memorial. I’ll keep looking. Right now it seems his official first name may have been Charles but he went by Fred. More to come.</p>The Wright Law Offices | Las Vegas family Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071240655380080775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037579570910948246.post-90082355178090238622018-04-16T18:29:00.001-07:002018-04-16T18:30:18.169-07:00Las Vegas Attorney David Jacks<div style="color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
Looking through my old high school yearbooks, I found this photo of my friend David Jacks. I met David in 1996, the week after my brother died. David was a senior at Eldorado High School and I was a recent graduate. </div>
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David is a private person and may not be too pleased with me crowing about his accomplishments, but people should know who he is, now, while it matters. I might have lost my best friend on April 13, 2018. </div>
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On that Friday the 13th, though racked with fears while holding a criminal at gunpoint, David nevertheless did what had to be done, which is, in my view, a sign of heroism. He detained the masked and violent madman that illegally came to David’s office until the police could arrive. </div>
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David was the most decorated ROTC student in Eldorado high school history. After graduation, he worked briefly in construction, married, and then joined the United States Army.</div>
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While in the Army, David’s back was seriously injured. Not long after the back injury, his wife gave birth. The little baby needed open heart surgery. Also, during this time, David’s home was invaded and he had to hold off intruders in the back part of the house with his hunting rifle while waiting for the police to arrive. </div>
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Six weeks to the day after the baby’s open heart surgery, David’s wife showed immaturity and selfishness, and in a few months’ time David was a single father of a healing baby, and was unemployed due to the Army medical discharge under honorable conditions for his back injury.</div>
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When David returned home to Las Vegas and became a PADI certified scuba instructor, he says he hoped that the water would relieve his back pain. However, scuba instruction did not pay well, so David obtained a job with Nevada State Bank. This job also did not last long. The first day of working at the bank after training, an armed robber held him up at gunpoint. </div>
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Since he knew how to operate heavy machinery and could sit while working, David returned to construction work. When terrorists flew planes to take down buildings, David was hard at work making buildings and roads in the fastest growing city in America back then.</div>
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Just like those who know him would expect, in no time, he was running the construction company. Because of his physical limitations and the demands of being a single father of a toddler, he could not maintain the early mornings and long days of construction work forever and so he used his GI Bill to go to college with the intention of one day going to law school. </div>
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Perhaps due to his several life and death experiences to that point, David really ate up life. He spent his time and money pursuing interests like becoming an airplane pilot, four-wheeling, and hunting in the backcountry of Northern Nevada. His experiences with his own divorce and child custody years earlier propelled him into that field of law when he was be-knighted to practice law in the State of Nevada.</div>
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He was a newly minted lawyer when he took on one of his most challenging cases and succeeded where many would not even try. I was proud of him then and wrote about it here: <a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" data-lynx-mode="origin" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwrightlawnv.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F12%2Fyoung-man-says-local-attorney-saved-his.html%3Fm%3D1&h=ATPeDGXvC9WANQqDVj46b2VSdYDmYH4iOiOhW9sw8GuoC_BYkRr5WJXxU-p4bRADrdZpyFWCsRC-Jm02ZlsCG590x5aB2gmZ6JCkJfZPixpaSxl_rpIz75I_07HU" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://wrightlawnv.blogspot.com/…/young-man-says-local-atto…</a></div>
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Over the years since becoming a lawyer, his victories are many. He has taken on extra study to become one of the best in his field, including attending a week-long National Family Law Trial Institute and an almost month-long Trial Lawyers College where he was taught by one of the greatest and most famous American attorneys who is still alive, Gerry Spence. For those who don’t know whether this is a big deal, as an attorney myself, I can tell you that very few attorneys do these things, less than 1%.</div>
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After his armed confrontation with the crazy five-time felon on April 13th even the police that came were calling him a hero. Dave repeated to me later that he didn’t feel like one, that there were many things in his life he was prouder of. </div>
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I hope David is not too upset with me for writing this, but I am frankly tired of reading of all the great things about people in their obituaries. He deserves many accolades. With death so omnipresent in our news these days, I think we should honor and celebrate life while it is still here. </div>
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I love you David.</div>
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The Wright Law Offices | Las Vegas family Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071240655380080775noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037579570910948246.post-40234338382495454242018-04-15T02:13:00.002-07:002018-04-15T16:10:56.850-07:00Attorney David Jacks Detains Madman with Gun at FirmOn Valentine’s Day 2018, I represented the spouse of a madman at a TPO hearing. It was supposed to be a formality where the TPO judge simply would determine whether the madman qualified for a free attorney to assist with a defense to the hundreds of violations, with which he had been charged, of the temporary protection order his wife had against him. The TPO was ordered in October 2017 after numerous rants about suicide and homicide on social media, texts, and other communication to his wife. Despite the order to cease this conduct, he continued, violating the order hundreds of times.<br />
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At the hearing, true to form, rather than follow a logical and sane course, the madman argued with the judge and suggested he felt solidarity with the October 1 Mandalay Bay shooter and other mass shooters, which resulted in a 48 hour lockup, and culminated in the April 13, 2018 armed detention by David Jacks at our law offices. As I drove to my law firm following my business at court on Valentines Day, I learned about the high school shooting in Florida that occurred earlier that morning.<br />
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On Friday April 13, 2018, almost two months later, this madman left his utility truck running, parked in front of our main entry of our law offices in the fire lane. He apparently drove across the valley to our offices not only under the influence of some drugs, but also with serious malicious intent.<br />
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He entered our suite wearing a mask with a skull and crossbones on it. Fortuitously, David Jacks happened to see the madman's truck while the madman was in the elevator on his way up to our offices. During the madman's elevator ride, David obtained his firearm, secured a position, and then could detain the madman for several minutes while the police were called and everyone waited for their arrival. The Henderson police had been alerted by me on Valentine's Day of the potential threat following the hearing. <br />
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Our entire building, which houses five companies and dozens of personel, was unable to conduct business for several hours and nearby schools were on lock down due to this. After the police arrived, David Jacks was initially handcuffed but quickly released by the police when they realized his role in the events. He was then commended as a hero by the police for having used a weapon to detain a person who was up to no good without shedding any blood. David was also commended on local talk radio for this and the story was in the news within no time. http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/37952281/henderson-police-armed-business-owner-takes-down-man-up-to-no-good<br />
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If fortune smiles on us, the madman will be locked up for a long, long time. He is currently charged by the police with five felonies in Henderson, NV.<br />
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Below is the video of that TPO hearing I attended. I share this so that we friends who know each other can understand on a more personal level the issues of sanity, domestic violence, drugs addiction, and gun use in our society than what we may glean from news articles about strangers. Not unlike the high schoolers in Florida who knew the gunman who killed many of their classmates and teachers, the madman in this situation as well as his wife, David, and I all went to high school together. If the people who know a madman the best cannot convince judges and officers to take action until a traumatic event occurs like on the morning of Friday the 13th, how can we stem the problems of violence, mental health, and drug use?<br />
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A link to the first and second hearing are below. During the second hearing, the madman and the judge go at it some more and the madman is arrested for his disappointing and relatively pointless 48 hours of custody for contempt of court.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFmjpCB9Yuw7_75VglsJ-D_kPwzQZu892ATcryQKPwarIokC-ePCNxwuephiAVvYBxUWTF1Da7cEuSe2fzDT_ZnEzMvNYmLJhBajTKi8WRM7sAG9NLQqG7ULuTFaXF5rap_You1-SASjDA/s1600/Scales-of-Justice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFmjpCB9Yuw7_75VglsJ-D_kPwzQZu892ATcryQKPwarIokC-ePCNxwuephiAVvYBxUWTF1Da7cEuSe2fzDT_ZnEzMvNYmLJhBajTKi8WRM7sAG9NLQqG7ULuTFaXF5rap_You1-SASjDA/s200/Scales-of-Justice.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I have represented
divorce and family law clients for nine years in Las Vegas and I pay attention
to the trends in society, including the technological changes and the evolving
views on relationships. As part of my practice, I not only look at the law,
but I do my best to present my clients with bigger picture concepts to help
them through the horrible experiences that brought them to me. I try to
have them see things from their significant other's points of view and the
point of view of a judge.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We live in a day and age
of constant stimulation. We see people do amazing things on TV, in movies
(I include some movies below that you may want to watch), on Facebook, and
Youtube. We then examine our own dull lives and many of us determine that
our significant other is a weight around our neck. A ball-and-chain.
A restraint on freedom. We realize that if we didn't have to share
our time, money, and energy with this other person, whom we may still love (but
not be in love with any longer) we could be doing those exciting things and
meeting new and exciting people.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We then throw away the
stifling comfort of a committed relationship in favor of the risk and potential
rewards of adventure. Of course, what many of us do not realize until it
is too late is the downside of the risk of leaving someone to whom we were committed. It is important to remember various truths about our so-called
modern, civilized society as we break up with those who love us and seek out
the temptations we have deprived ourselves of while in the committed
relationship. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Do not forget or fail to
consider the following as you enter the world of single-hood after years of
being in a committed relationship:</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">1.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
AIDS and other life threatening or terminal sexually transmitted diseases still
exist and are far <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats/default.htm">more common in single people</a> with multiple sexual
partners. STDs (or STIs) are virtually nonexistent in committed
one-partner relationships. Many single women <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2152150/STD-fears-70-single-women-admit-regularly-having-unprotected-sex.html">unintentionally spread disease with unprotected sex</a>. Some people <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork4.com/news/local/fugitive-wanted-for-intentionally-spreading-hiv.html">intentionally spread disease</a>. There are some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_transmission_of_HIV">criminal statutes for spreading STD</a>s, but if a person is dying of AIDs anyway, what can criminal justice really do?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">2.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
It is estimated that 1 in 20 people in the world is sociopathic (some think
that it is more than that, but still, if it is 1 out of 20, that means you
already know several sociopaths). Brain chemistry, drugs, or a birth
defect in which the <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/407738/what-can-neuroscience-tell-us-about-evil/">amygdala of the brain is smaller than normal</a> can cause
this. Sociopaths can act like they care about people, but they do this
only to get what they want. Sociopaths can be good for society (lack of
empathy can make sociopaths good at sales, surgery, politics, and war), but can be
very hard to deal with, and a small minority of sociopaths are criminals, a smaller minority
consists of psychopaths who murder or rape for pleasure. Sociopaths can
be charmers who destroy what they charm. An excellent movie about a
sociopath, depicted by Daniel Day-Lewis, who did good for society but was still horrible to those close to him
is “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/">There Will be Blood</a>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other single but mentally disturbed
individuals can ruin your life too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take
for instance Audrey Tautou’s character in “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291579/">He Loves Me, He Loves me Not</a>”.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">3.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
Two income homes with shared living expenses means more money saved than living
singly (unless your domestic partner is using you and spending far too
much). Marriage gives tax breaks that single people cannot get.
Consider the financial impact logically as part of your resolve to break up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The financial and emotional impact of divorce
is brought home in the movie “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098621/">The
War of the Roses</a>”.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">4.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
The grass is greener where you water it. Don’t envy your neighbor’s lawn, water
your own. Consider that the investment in yourself and your relationship
may be better for you than fleeing it for new territory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meryl Streep’s character had to make a huge
decision that meant sacrifice either way in “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112579/">The Bridges of Madison County</a>”. The bridge could be a symbol for her choice, stay home on one side, or cross over to a new world.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">5.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
Singlehood can mean rejection (both you rejecting others and them rejecting
you), heartache, loneliness, and crazy exes. You should always background
check anyone you intend to get serious with. You may find out that they
have a history of drug abuse, sexual violence, or crazy exes themselves that can
hurt you and/or your children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wife
and mother to the character portrayed by Viggo Mortensen had no clue her gentle
husband was a former murdering gangster in “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399146/">A History of Violence</a>”.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">6.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
If you do have children and want to enter single life, you still have a life
commitment to them and some sort of connection with the other parent. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may have court battles for child support
even after the children are adults.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Worse yet, you may be left totally on your own to raise the child, such as
what happened to Will Smith’s character in “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454921/">The Pursuit of Happyness</a>”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">7.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
New people in your life can set you up in such a way that you face criminal
responsibility. Be wary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jim
Carrey’s character did this to his lover in “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045772/">I Love you Phillip Morris</a>”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">8.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
New is not necessarily better. Committed love can be much better for your
long-term happiness, than the thrill of a new love (crush), which lasts for a short
while and leaves you worse off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gael
García Bernal’s character had to realize that his wife and child were more
important than the cute young woman in “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038043/">Mammoth</a>”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">9.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">
Sometimes being single is much better than remaining married--and feeling
trapped, take for instance Jennifer Lopez’s character in “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278435/">Enough</a>”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some people have to go through a few
long-term relationships before they find the one that will be there for the
rest of their lives, sometimes even with the same person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my practice, I have seen people in their
second marriage to the same person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
movie depicting this would be “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102411/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl">The
Marrying Man</a>”. Former family court <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Sheindlin">Judge Judy Scheindlin </a>divorced and remarried her husband. However, some never do find another that will love them as
much as the one they threw away. When you are old, will you live in despair and loneliness with all the regrets, or will you have friends and lovers keeping you in the moment instead of in the past?</span><br />
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There are a lot of movies that can encourage adventurous risk-taking which
should be considered in light of all of the above. Such movies may
include, “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/">Titanic</a>: in which Rose is convinced to pursue a romantic, adventurous life instead of a life with a rich husband”, “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112579/">The Bridges of Madison County</a>: about a wife having to choose between domesticity and adventure”,
pretty much every movie with Michelle Williams in it (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1120985/">Blue Valentine</a>: about a dwindling marriage, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592281/">Take this Waltz</a>: about a wife finding someone new, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038043/">Mammoth</a>: about a husband being seduced, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0984200/">Incendiary</a>: about an adulterous wife who loses everything, including her mind, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/">Broke Back Mountain</a>: about a loyal wife with a disloyal gay husband, and even <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1655420/">My Week With Marilyn</a>: about a wife who strays) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079417/">Kramer
vs. Kramer</a>: about a mother and father fighting over a child”, “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098621/">The War of the
Roses</a>: about a husband and wife fighting over everything through a divorce”, “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107211/">Indecent Proposal</a>: about a rich guy buying another man's wife”,
"<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061184/">Who's Afraid Of Virginia
Woolf?</a>: about a tumultuous marriage", “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959337/">Revolutionary
Road</a>: about an evolving marriage”, “<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062407/">Two for the Road</a>: about a dwindling marriage” and "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205535/">Rebound</a>: about finding someone new after a divorce".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">March 4, 2013</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Anthony is a <span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Las Vegas divorce attorney, licensed in Nevada since 2005.</span> When considering marriage and divorce, it is advisable to meet with a <a href="http://www.wrightlawnv.com/"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Las Vegas family law attorney</span></a> to more
fully appreciate all your options. Why are Las Vegas family lawyers so good at giving advice? Because, Las Vegas is perhaps the marriage and divorce capitol of the entire world. It is an adult playground where relationships are born and die. Nevada has the easiest laws to get married and to get divorced, so clients flock here and the family law attorneys get plenty of experience. An <a href="http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/89120-nv-anthony-wright-1770847.html">experienced divorce lawyer</a> has probably heard and seen it all many times. The relationship problems depicted in the movies mentioned in the article above are small compared to the real relationship problems most divorce lawyers are asked to handle in family court.</span></div>
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twenty-five-year-old young family man and manager of a local fast food
restaurant was charged with a felony non-violent crime. He did not
have a lot of money to hire a private attorney and therefore was appointed a
public defender. He eventually had two public defenders on his case
who negotiated what he thought was a good deal for him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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young man is a lawful permanent resident of the United States and he repeatedly
asked if he would be deported to El Salvador, a place he had not been to since
he was a young child. One of his friends was recently deported to El
Salvador and was promptly killed by the MS-13 gang there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;">The
public defenders said that he may be deported but they were not sure and that
he would have to consult with an immigration attorney. They suggested
he take the plea deal because it meant that he would not get any prison time,
even though it would be a felony conviction. He took the deal and
was returned to his family and his job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Three
months later, immigration officials arrested him and put him in lock-up for
deportation to El Salvador. This young man knew no one in El
Salvador and faced the prospect of being killed or joining a vicious gang to
survive. Likely, he would never see his newborn child again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;">While
he was in lock-up, his family looked for an attorney to help him and found my
friend attorney <a href="http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/89120-nv-david-jacks-4224691.html"><span style="color: #2c4f78; text-decoration: none;">David Jacks</span></a>. David
tried many procedures and filed documents with both federal immigration court
and <a href="http://www.thejackslawgroup.com/#!criminal-defense"><span style="color: #2c4f78; text-decoration: none;">criminal court
in Las Vegas</span></a>. His task was daunting and many criminal
defense attorneys he turned to for guidance, including me, were skeptical that
he could get results. Over the next three months David
optimistically worked every week on the case until he was able to get the
Nevada criminal court in Las Vegas to reopen the case and overturn the
conviction. This post-conviction relief is a very difficult criminal
procedure in Nevada and rarely is accomplished. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;">To
David’s credit, owing to hard and persistent work on the case, he succeeded in
getting the conviction overturned and the crime reduced to a non-deportable
offense -- a misdemeanor. Once Las Vegas, or the State of Nevada,
reduced the charge, the federal immigration court had no choice but to release
the young man. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16.0pt;">After
three months being locked up and facing almost certain deportation to a country
where death or horror awaited, <a href="http://wrightlawnv.blogspot.com/search/label/david%20jacks" target="_blank">David Jacks</a>’ work returned the young man to his
waiting family. Moreover, because the conviction was reversed, this
young man can pursue US Citizenship, after which he will never face deportation
again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the young man gave David a big hug and said, "You saved my
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<!--EndFragment-->The Wright Law Offices | Las Vegas family Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071240655380080775noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037579570910948246.post-30318081750138697262012-11-27T22:52:00.000-08:002014-09-14T19:29:43.477-07:00Should I pay my traffic citation?<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 11pt;">Residents and tourists alike are charged with traffic offenses such as speeding or failing to yield each year in, and around, the Las Vegas Valley, however few realize the problems associated with a traffic charge conviction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 11pt;">When a person handed a <a href="http://www.wrightlawnv.com/#!traffic-tickets" target="_blank">traffic citation</a> by the police pleads guilty to the traffic violation, pays a fine, and attends traffic school, that person probably has not considered the following results associated with pleading guilty to a traffic citation:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 11pt;">• Every conviction for a moving violation likely will raise your insurance rates.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 11pt;">• Multiple convictions for traffic violations will likely result in a driver’s license suspension or license revocation. In Nevada, if you are convicted of driving with a suspended license, you may be restricted from acquiring a new license for a full year.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 11pt;">• If you handle the traffic ticket by yourself, you will probably take at least 1 day off from work to go to court to resolve the ticket, and it is not a pleasant experience.</span><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 11pt;">As a result of convictions for moving violations, like simple speeding tickets, you will likely pay fines, court administrative fees, increased insurance costs, and attend traffic school. Further, you could suffer possible suspension or revocation of you driver’s license. If your Nevada license is suspended, you will not be able to obtain a license in any other State until the Nevada suspension is completed. On top of this, you will need to miss a whole day’s pay, just to go to court!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px;">You hire a criminal defense attorney with experience negotiating thousands of citations. Attorney Anthony Wright has negotiated plea deals for misdemeanor traffic citations for many years and will bring his knowledge to the court for your matter and you will likely have to do little more than pay his fee, give him a copy of the citation, and then pay the fine to the court upon a negotiated deal.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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The Wright Law Offices | Las Vegas family Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071240655380080775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037579570910948246.post-55850715968294936122012-08-06T20:51:00.001-07:002014-05-28T10:42:52.847-07:00Loneliness<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">
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belong to a group and yet are individuals, alone in the perspectives our minds
and experiences create. Some of us are more able to understand the perspectives
of others and can empathize; some of us are too caught up in ourselves to give
much thought to others. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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excruciating introspection such that we feel isolated from all others. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Then is when we contemplate the ultimate question--WHY? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">It is the question that religions and philosophies have grappled
to no ultimate answer. Are we the playthings of a God or gods, or merely
organized space dust? Why are we here? Why bother to continue living? What more
is there? What difference do I make? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> Some think they have it figured out and may be happy in their
delusions. Often these folks belong to a collective that all think they have it
figured out and thus are less likely to fall into the grave despair of
loneliness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Others know that they do not know and can spiral into the
deepest darkness as they either give up caring for themselves or indulge
themselves to excess in an attempt to quiet that evil question,
"Why?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> In the philosophy and practice of law we learn that this is a
dangerous question. "Why?" leaves open too many potential answers. It
is a question we do not always know how a witness will answer while testifying
and the response could destroy our case. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">So, we tend to ask “who?”, “what?”, “when?”, and “where?” in
order to try and get the jury to figure out the "why?" in a way that
benefits our side. We can suggest the motive, but if the witness blurts out the
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">If we all knew the answer to the ultimate question of life, we
would not need to endure life. We would realize that the answer is reached and
would stop striving to reach it. Our journey is not unlike a deliberating jury
attempting to figure out a winner and a loser. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">If we give up on our pursuit of the answer we are giving up on
all our potential. We will stop growing as a species. We will not explore, not
wonder, not care. We will not win and we will not lose. We will only stagnate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> Lawyers are very susceptible to loneliness. We are problem
solvers and despise unanswerable questions. In our lonely search for the truth
we can alienate others and even alienate ourselves from ourselves. We start to
feel powerless and fearful. We start to wonder whether it is worth going on,
waking up, fighting another day. We dread the tasks at hand and wonder whether
it is all worthwhile. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Some lawyers let the stress get to them and give in and give
up--on the profession, on their health, and even on life. Victories become
hollow and losses unbearable. Nothing quenches that desire for truth and for a
sense of wanting to belong. Too many victories cause us to wonder what more
there is and too many losses cause us to wonder, "what's the
point?" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">If we all knew the ultimate answer, would we have so much
diversity? Would we have an exciting world? I doubt it. We would be much more
alike because we would all know one single truth. We would then lose
individualism. We would be so crowded and bored that life would be
useless. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">I theorize that individualism and unsolved puzzles are far more
interesting and suspenseful than collective boredom. Earth, with its great
diversity, is far more desirable than eternal sameness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Mortality is far more rewarding than immortality. Mortality
gives us art and beauty. Death gives us rebirth. Eternity gives us nothing but
cyclical boredom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">So, I say, find joy in your individualism and your particular
daily struggle. Keep pondering "why?" but do not let it consume you.
Quit worrying about belonging and start thinking about adding value to your
life and those of others. Once you stop thinking about loneliness you stop
being lonely. Once you stop worrying you stop worrying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">Fear is your friend, not your enemy. If you allow fear of the
unknowable to eat you, you shall miss out on much. If you allow fear of the
unknowable to deepen and broaden your perspective, you shall delight in the
mystery and fear will transform from fear for self to fear for all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">As you expand your perspective, you shall stop feeling tiny and
start feeling useful, self-actualized. "Why?" is not evil, it <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">IS</i></b>
your reason for living. You are the protagonist of your story. You are the jury
that determines your success. You can fail. Survival after failure provides far
more interesting stories and insights than succumbing to failure. Winning
teaches less than losing. Adversity teaches more than ease. Harshness builds
more character than indulgence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">I started by saying that we are all alone in our individual
perspectives. I challenge you to perceive life henceforth as an amusing mystery
filled with beauty and awe that you can contribute to and enjoy. Erase the
perceptions of oppressive loneliness and realize we are all alone and all
wonderful and all complex and all worth knowing and all worth helping and all
worth learning from. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;">The diversity is exciting and belonging erases more potential than
recognizing individualism. Group think produces less than individual thought.
Collaboration is great so long as it is comprised of individuals--not clones
and sycophants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt;"> Again, I challenge you to embrace your uniqueness and channel
it towards production and exploration instead of into introspective, lonely,
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<a href="http://www.wrightlawnv.com/">Las Vegas attorney</a> Anthony M. Wright can be reached at (702) 809-6904. You may also reach your <a href="http://www.wrightlawnv.com/">Las Vegas lawyer</a> <a href="mailto:wrightlawoffices@yahoo.com">by Emailing me</a>.The Wright Law Offices | Las Vegas family Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071240655380080775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037579570910948246.post-33450813097170496042009-08-27T09:44:00.000-07:002014-10-04T11:02:06.633-07:00Essay to get into Law School<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMctZNAVCw45kqdW0ADp9j5AXgbVJoq9jyWuHUl4WaB91dEWwvzV0lj13w841wde0qRPd1nZO6Qb-p19gtMFK9__jYRZnBw598OFWpwG01NSWZS2mZUoVjISW_sMSZJX8spUcj6Fi2tPQ_/s1600-h/antlookingup.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMctZNAVCw45kqdW0ADp9j5AXgbVJoq9jyWuHUl4WaB91dEWwvzV0lj13w841wde0qRPd1nZO6Qb-p19gtMFK9__jYRZnBw598OFWpwG01NSWZS2mZUoVjISW_sMSZJX8spUcj6Fi2tPQ_/s320/antlookingup.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375262671835942850" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 240px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">Personal Statement</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">For my friend, reaching a top is a great achievement as he's overcoming a fear each time h</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">e does it. For me, reac</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">hing a top is a realization of a goal, but this achievement is not the sole enjoyment of the </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">experience, the actual hiking is its own reward. As I walk over rocks or cling and climb up giant boulders, I rea</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">lize several thi</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">ngs within the rugged beauty of Nature. With a vigilant eye, we sometimes see a fossil of some prehistoric sea animal evidencing the fact</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> that Southern Nevad</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">a had once been under water. We keep a lookout for meteorites too as they are valuable chunks of metal from the dark vastness of the universe. However, mostly we see broken bottles, paper wrappers, and lead from spent bullets from the 1980s when people </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">would shoot guns here (illegal now). The litter detracts from the enjoyment of the outdoors as it evidences some unti</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcz_sLfRXlzELlcohVWUNbp606euENx5KP97kkKuNjMLRKj3N0qK0MLx_rE2eOjtUBCl-_43I09-a8y9bOb3jJ4Dty46ySG7KZeXofYuavQuEe_Vkq3RQk-xYqkHwvHJte4LvTzv6H9AFG/s1600-h/anthonyclimbing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcz_sLfRXlzELlcohVWUNbp606euENx5KP97kkKuNjMLRKj3N0qK0MLx_rE2eOjtUBCl-_43I09-a8y9bOb3jJ4Dty46ySG7KZeXofYuavQuEe_Vkq3RQk-xYqkHwvHJte4LvTzv6H9AFG/s320/anthonyclimbing.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374688213943146674" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 212px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">dy person walked before us and the</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> mystery of discovery is lessened. Perhaps, a hundred years from now, that litter </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">I find annoying now will be as entertaining to some future </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">hiker as the fossils are to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"> lies supine like a French man across the East side of the Vegas Valley, and to see the great blue man-made Lake Mead on one side co</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">ntrasting to its desert environment and a sea of buildings and lights on the other </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">side called Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson,</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> and Cou</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOn0NSCAdxKOly0Zlqkn5391U5aDG00Ci9yMhJDInhCekc0-XrP9w12RuLiXlurKh2lDrg4nRXfJQh4OL_UfKVgykLUFpMEU5C7ijnb9u_ArTnBGyja4R2nvDzJV_tzHoRdtzjOyt2gelU/s1600-h/roping.down.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOn0NSCAdxKOly0Zlqkn5391U5aDG00Ci9yMhJDInhCekc0-XrP9w12RuLiXlurKh2lDrg4nRXfJQh4OL_UfKVgykLUFpMEU5C7ijnb9u_ArTnBGyja4R2nvDzJV_tzHoRdtzjOyt2gelU/s400/roping.down.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375853722308474066" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 254px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">nty is </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">a kind of grandeur hard to express in words</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">It is disconcerting to think of the millions of people going about their business below me in the soupy pollution that hangs in a thick layer over them but under me. From my vantage, even during the dismal thoughts of our ability to </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">damage nature and our own health, I cannot help but be impressed by our ingenuity, our drive to find</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> ways to strive in inhospitable climates...a man made lake on one side of a large fault upheaval feeding a million of us on the other side. It's incredible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">What do they say? Life is all down hill from here? It sure is! It's a crucial part of the adventure. One would think I'd be tired after a rigorous hike, but the rush of accomplishment can keep a person going all day. Just as when I finish anything I'm proud of or have invested time and energy in, the satisfaction of a job well done is rewarding, but recognition from others for it helps to make that feeling last far longer than it would if I alone knew what I did. I like the thought that others may remember my exploits after I forget or cease upo</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">n this planet. Life is, after all, a short ride on a rock hurtling through space. Vladimir Nabokov once said that our “existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” May as well have a good time, and </span></div>
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<br /><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""> </span>Joe then did the American thing; he sued the manufacturer of Pam’s particular brand of coffin nails, Phillip Morris, in a Nevada federal court. He, or his attorney, told the court that Phillip Morris is strictly liable for Pam’s death.<span style=""> </span>Strict liability is a lawsuit claim used when a business sells a dangerous product.<span style=""> </span>If Joe can prove that Phillip Morris caused Pam’s death, Phillip Morris will have to pay.<span style=""> </span>But Joe did not want to have to prove his case.<span style=""> </span>Instead, he wanted the Court to make Phillip Morris prove that they did not cause her death.<span style=""> </span>Usually a Plaintiff has to prove his case, but here, Joe figured the wicked Phillip Morris must disprove its case without Joe having to prove the normally required element of causation.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""> </span>Joe basically wanted the court to tell the jury that the jury could presume that if the cigarette packages had the cancer warning when Pam started smoking, she would not have started smoking.<span style=""> </span>In other words, Joe wanted the jury to assume from the beginning that Phillip Morris is in the wrong and Phillip Morris then had to prove that it was not in the wrong.<span style=""> </span>Somehow, Phillip Morris would have to provide evidence that Pam would have smoked their cigarettes even if the cancer warning label had been on the packages--clear back in the 1960s.<span style=""> </span>Come on now, that was the 1960s, dude.<span style=""> </span>Do you really think a lot of the young people back then would have listened to warnings?<span style=""> </span>I mean, gosh, wasn’t that the time of experimental drug use.<span style=""> </span>Also, wasn’t the military actually handing out packs of cigarettes to the soldiers?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""> </span>Anyway, Phillip Morris did not want to have to try to prove to a jury that Pam would have ignored the warning labels.<span style=""> </span>They told the federal judge that this “heeding presumption” should not apply in this case.<span style=""> </span>A heeding presumption is what I’ve been talking about--a jury may presume that a person would have heeded a warning if a warning had been given and the defendant then has to try to prove that the person would not have heeded the warning.<span style=""> </span>It’s almost like a religious person asking an atheist to prove that God does not exist.
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<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""> </span>You might ask why the Nevada Supreme Court would side with the manufacturers of death on this issue.<span style=""> </span>Well, our scholars in black robes said that a heeding presumption is contrary to Nevada law and public policy.<span style=""> </span>The Nevada Supreme Court is correct on the law issue.<span style=""> </span>Nevada has never allowed heeding presumptions.<span style=""> </span>And, I believe their point about public policy is sound too.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<br /><span style=""></span>Joe said that other States have heeding presumptions because it forces companies to better label their products, and therefore heeding presumptions are good for the public, so they are good public policy.<span style=""> </span>If companies knew they could be sued for not properly labeling their dangerous goods, then they would label them better.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Nevada is smarter than those other States, though, because we tell the companies that sell stuff here to make sure the stuff isn’t dangerous in the first place.<span style=""> </span>If it’s not dangerous, then why would you have to warn?<span style=""> </span>In other words, the public is safer when companies can be sued for strict liability.<span style=""> </span>Warning labels do not make us safer, safer products do.<span style=""> </span>I’ll end this with a Supreme Court Justice’s quote from the case:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-align: justify;">[…] we strongly adhere to the principle that a manufacturer must make products that are not unreasonably dangerous, no matter what instructions are given in the warning. Therefore, we conclude that it is better public policy not to encourage a reliance on warnings because this will help ensure that manufacturers continue to strive to make safe products.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.75in; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""> </span>If you still want to read this long, boring Nevada Supreme Court decision after I have taken all the trouble of explaining it, you may.<span style=""> </span>The decision is called <a href="http://www.nevadajudiciary.us/index.php/advanced-opinions/400-rivera-v-philip-morris-inc.html">Rivera v. Phillip Morris</a>, and it was decided in June 2009.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<br />By: Anthony M. Wright, Juris Doctor </p> The Wright Law Offices | Las Vegas family Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071240655380080775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037579570910948246.post-34737511369880465992009-08-21T23:46:00.000-07:002012-12-15T12:39:48.942-08:00CIVIL: Win Some, Lose Some—Suing Insurance Companies can be a Roller Coaster Ride<div style="text-align: justify;">
If your mother, we’ll call her Barbara, was involved in a car accident with another negligent driver, we’ll call him Bellville, and she later died from her injuries, you might want to sue for her wrongful death. Let's say you do sue and Bellville’s insurance company ponies up $1,000,000.00, which is the entirety of Bellville’s policy (or what we call the limit). Now, you are still upset and you think $1,000,000 is not enough for the life of your beloved mother—besides, your <a href="http://www.thejackslawgroup.com/#!personal-injury" target="_blank">personal injury</a> attorney received anywhere from a quarter to a half of it and medical bills also were deducted. </div>
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You quickly realize that you have your own insurance policy which has “under-insured motorist” coverage, abbreviated to “UM”. Hey—your mother was worth more than $1,000,000 and so clearly the other driver was under-insured because his policy limit was a measly one million. You, or your lawyer, cleverly decide to try to get your insurance company to pay more with the idea that your insurance company should pay you for the death of your mother. <br />
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Your mean-spirited insurance company then says, “No way! Your under-insured motorist coverage only pays you when someone hits you. It does not pay you if someone hits your mother. Your mother was not insured under your policy.” <br />
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But then you, or your brilliant attorney, argue that you ought to still be entitled and so you sue your insurance company under that theory. And, voila, your local elected judge agrees with you! Magic! You are entitled to more compensation! Did you see that coming? Well, many lawyers might see that coming since elected judges answer to citizens who vote and also gossip with other citizens about a judge’s merit, but insurance companies are not citizens who vote (but let us not get too carried away with local politics because insurance companies lobby congress and probably buy legislative votes on laws that favor them on a much larger scale than locally). <br />
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So, you have won another financial victory in honor of your dead mother. Or have you? Don’t celebrate too quickly. The insurance company appeals the district court judge’s ruling in your favor and the mean-spirited Nevada Supreme Court actually agrees with your mean-spirited insurance company. Mean-spirited people often think alike, don’t they? Therefore, the moral of this story is that your UM coverage is for you and others that are listed as insureds in your policy, but do not cover people who are not listed, no matter how near and dear they are to you. <br />
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This scenario is more boringly but fully described in the case <a href="http://www.nevadajudiciary.us/index.php/advanced-opinions/359-allstate-insurance-co-v-fackett.html">Allstate Insurance Company v. Fackett</a>. </div>
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Copyright: August 22, 2009 <br />
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The Wright Law Offices | Las Vegas family Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071240655380080775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037579570910948246.post-38868269694232261142009-08-21T22:56:00.000-07:002012-04-21T18:13:09.687-07:00CRIMINAL: Unloaded Toy Pellet Guns are Considered Deadly Weapons by the Nevada Supreme Court<div style="text-align: justify;">If you rob a bank with an unloaded toy gun, you will be charged and likely convicted of burglary while in possession of a deadly weapon and robbery with use of a deadly weapon. The Nevada Supreme Court recently decided this very issue in the case of <meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COwner%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12;" ><a href="http://www.nevadajudiciary.us/index.php/advanced-opinions/451-berry-v-state-.html">Berry v. State</a></span>. This dumb defendant stuck a toy gun to a bank employee’s head while she walked to her car during closing time. He made her unlock the safe, which took ten minutes. During the wait, the dude felt her up and made lewd comments about her body being sexy, causing her to feel like he might rape her or something. Along with being charged with burglary with a deadly weapon and robbery with use of a deadly weapon, the freak was also charged with one count of open and gross lewdness. And well he should be. He was gross.
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<br />Anyway, he ran from the cops who waited for him to exit the bank, and they finally caught him in an apartment complex hiding behind a washing machine. The cops saw the stolen loot and toy gun. He was convicted of the three crimes and decided to appeal while rotting in prison. The Supreme Court took one look at this scumbag’s argument, and disagreed with him. Berry thought that he was being clever by using a toy gun. His limited intellect told him that maybe he wouldn’t get hard time if he used a toy instead of a real weapon. Surely a judge would think he wasn’t so bad since he could not have killed with an unloaded toy.
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<br />Well, the unloaded toy was still considered a deadly weapon, partly because it could potentially be adapted for such since it had a spring mechanism, trigger, and the potential to shoot a pellet or perhaps .22 bullet. Also, he intended for his victim to believe it was a deadly weapon in order to effectuate his crime. The victim, if she had been allowed to have a handgun on her while working at the bank, could have shot him in “apparent” self-defense because she would have reasonably believed her life was in danger.
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Nevada Supreme Court has recently decided the case of <u><a href="http://www.nevadajudiciary.us/index.php/advanced-opinions/454-chavez-v-state-.html">Chavez v. State</a></u>. Chavez was convicted for “digitally, vaginally, and anally penetrat[ing] [his daughter] during a five-year span”. The daughter is referred to as “D.C.” and died before Chavez’s trial and therefore could not testify at his trial. Instead of having her corpse miraculously testify, the prosecutor convinced the court that her prior testimony at the <link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COwner%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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</style>“<a href="http://criminal.findlaw.com/crimes/criminal_stages/criminal_preliminary_hearing/">preliminary hearing</a>”, which had been videotaped, should be shown to the jury. Chavez’s attorney had cross-examined D.C. at the preliminary hearing, so the judge decided it was ok to let the prosecutor present the video to the jury. Chavez objected based on the Confrontation Clause in the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution which says that a defendant should be allowed to face his accusers. The judge said that Chavez did face, and cross-examine, his accuser at the preliminary hearing and did not have to again at trial. Chavez was then convicted and sentenced to four consecutive life sentences with a possibility of parole after 20 years.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Now, there was other evidence against this Chavez person—such as the vibrators and socks with D.C.’s saliva and Chavez’s semen on them and the testimony of D.C.’s siblings who claim to have witnessed strange behavior between D.C. and her loving daddy. My point is, I think Chavez was justly convicted—the jury probably got it right. Chavez and his attorneys thought something was wrong, however, because they appealed the conviction to the Nevada Supreme Court, focusing on the fact that Chavez could not again cross-examine his accuser at trial because he already did at the preliminary hearing. Chavez is grasping at straws probably because he does not enjoy the digital and anal penetration he is enduring in the big house.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Supreme Court sided with the lower court and said that the video tape was admissible evidence and therefore Chavez’s conviction stands. But, is this really the most just, the most fair, decision our black-robed scholars could reach? They say it is. They said that Chavez had the right to confront his accuser once, at the preliminary hearing, and because she was unavailable (dead) at the time of trial, her testimony should get in and Chavez therefore would not have another crack at cross-examination. The Sixth Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees the right to face your accuser, but it does not say how many times a defendant has that right.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Judges who wrote the decision looked at a former case known as “Crawford” to help them arrive at their rationale in this case and stated:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 45pt; text-align: justify;">We have applied <u>Crawford</u> to cases before us, stating that the testimonial hearsay of an unavailable witness requires a prior opportunity to cross-examine the witness concerning the statement for it to be admissible. <u>Flores v. State</u>, 121 Nev. 706, 714, 120 P.3d 1170, 1175 (2005). Further, we have observed that “‘the Confrontation Clause guarantees an <u>opportunity</u> for effective cross-examination, not cross-examination that is effective in whatever way, and to whatever extent, the defense might wish.’” <u>Pantano v. State</u>, 122 Nev. 782, 790, 138 P.3d 477, 482 (2006) (quoting <u>Delaware v. Van Arsdall</u>, 475 U.S. 673, 679 (1986)). And we have explained that discovery is a component of an effective cross-examination. <u>See</u> <u>Estes v. State</u>, 122 Nev. 1123, 1140, 146 P.3d 1114, 1126 (2006).</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 45pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 45pt; text-align: justify;">Today, we further clarify our post-<u>Crawford</u> decisions by holding that a preliminary hearing can afford a defendant an opportunity for effective cross-examination. We will determine the adequacy of the opportunity on a case-by-case basis, taking into consideration such factors as the extent of discovery that was available to the defendant at the time of cross-examination and whether the magistrate judge allowed the defendant a thorough opportunity to cross-examine the witness. We first address the standard of review for such a claim and then address each of Chavez’s claims in turn.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 45pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> In other words, the Court wants to keep its discretion and judge each situation on a case by case basis. Big surprise. Of course the court wants to retain discretion, that is how it retains its power over our lives. So, after “clarifying” its prior holdings, the Supreme Court then looked at this Chavez case using the factors and of course concluded that the factors meant, in this situation, the damning video testimony was allowed into evidence and Chavez will continue to rape or be raped in prison.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> Ok, so let me ask the reader of my blog whether they think the Supreme Court of Nevada made a correct ruling. I’ll use the wonderful “Socratic Method” that we attorneys learned in law school by asking you a lot of leading questions so that you can consider this case from the view that I, and other lawyers, may view it. I’m not saying the jury was wrong in convicting this human offal, but I want to paint a picture of why the Supreme Court may be wrong in allowing preliminary hearing video tape testimony into evidence at trial.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> Suppose you are the defendant and you are living with your ex-wife, with whom you have many arguments. You have children together and, when they are out of line, you punish them by spanking them or making them do pushups—as Chavez claims to have done. The mother then asks the kids one day as they are driving if they don’t like it when she and daddy fight. This too was in the evidence of the case. Suppose that one of the kids really hates your guts, maybe because you are the disciplinarian, and sets about to frame you for a crime to put you away. I’m not saying this happened in the Chavez case, but it could happen in some cases. Could a girl frame a father by planting evidence and then lying about sexual encounters that didn’t occur? Could a girl find her fathers porn magazines and get ideas? Could a girl get samples of her father’s semen and rub them on a vibrator and sock and then spit on the vibrator and sock? Could a girl then tell the police that she was raped when she was not?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Ok, I’m sure many of you paused at some of those questions and thought that there is no way a young girl could do that to her father. Think again. Young girls <i>do</i> do these things and it is not always clear cut who the real victim is. More often then not, the child is the victim, but in rare instances, the victim is the innocent parent figure. Now, let’s say the girl continues to tell her story and even testifies at a preliminary hearing. She holds up under all the questioning and maintains her story. Let’s assume she is a devil child and is lying. Again, I do not believe that is the case in Chavez, but I’m trying to make a point and hope you stay with me until I get it across. This deceptive girl even lies when her father’s lawyer asks her questions and she has to look over at her father. Maybe she didn’t get the toy she wanted. Maybe her father called her a “spoiled piggy little brat” and she is mad. Maybe her father hits her mother and this is the only way she can think to protect her mother. Who knows? There are two avenues that I want to next explore so that you can understand my problem with the Chavez decision.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">First avenue, lets assume this evil girl lives and is able to testify at trial against her father, but has somehow seen the light and changes her testimony. Yes, she would get in trouble for perjury, but she is a kid and probably won’t get into too much trouble. Maybe she had a spiritual or religious conversion—maybe she realizes just how horrible her accusations are. Well, she can recant at trial and explain how she tried to frame her father. The trial is the last possible time she could do this. Guess what. Reasonable doubt! Papa goes free.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Second avenue, let’s assume that the girl continues to be evil and lies every chance she gets. You know what they say about liars—they can seldom remember all their lies and may get caught. So, she must testify under oath again, this time at trial. She continues to lie, however her answers to questions are now glaringly different from the answers she gave at the preliminary hearing. Papa’s attorney can see these discrepancies and bring them to the jury’s attention to raise reasonable doubt. The more times you can question a lying witness, the better your chances to expose them—it’s called impeachment. Did you know that prosecutors do this all the time? If they get to cross-examine a defendant at trial, they will try to find inconsistencies between current answers and prior answers so that jurors will believe that the defendant is a liar who ought to be locked up. If a prosecutor can bite at the apple more than once, don’t you think a defense attorney ought to too? After this Chavez ruling, a defense attorney loses that second bite at the apple with the potentially lying accuser if the accuser dies before trial but her prior testimony can still be shown to the jury.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps you hate child-rapists and want to disagree with me because you think defense attorneys should not get the second bite at the apple of truth, which we like to call cross-examination. Do you know that this Supreme Court ruling will not only apply to child rape cases, but to all criminal cases from now on? That means adult rape cases, domestic violence, murder cases, burglary cases, arson cases, etc. So, even if you believe a child would not lie about being raped, can’t you see that other witnesses who may have it in for a defendant could lie under oath during preliminary hearings in other scenarios, then die before they can recant at trial?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I hope this makes sense to you. Our scholars in black robes can have good intentions when they write their decisions. I’m sure they were upset about the child rape and did not want to see Chavez go free on a “technicality”, however, is the death of the key witness really a “technicality”? At least they are leaving room for doubt by stating that this must be decided on a case by case basis, which means that different judges with different biases will decide the same set of facts differently. This is what we call justice in America—or at least in Nevada.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Ok, I’ve complained about the Supreme Court decision. You may ask how I would decide differently under the same fact scenario. Well, that is a hard one because I don’t want to see Chavez go free either although I’d battle with the thought that maybe he was not guilty and he was only convicted because of video testimony from a preliminary hearing. I would also be troubled with how this ruling will affect future criminal cases. After this ruling, defense counsel may not wish to cross-examine star witnesses extensively at a preliminary hearings if there is a chance that the star-witness will be unavailable at trial. However, a good attorney would want to because of the impeachment tactic I mentioned earlier. This kind of ruling will confuse defense attorneys and detract from justice. I simply could not allow the video evidence in since it is a key witness and the defense attorney should be afforded the same rights that the prosecutor has, a second chance to cross-examine, impeach, and explore new defense theories. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">And then, supposed the defendant had a bad attorney at the preliminary hearing and asked all the wrong questions during the cross-examination. Should a new defense attorney at trial have to deal with this video testimony of a dead witness when the old defense attorney was so rotten at his or her job?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">On the other hand, and there always is an alternate argument, if the video evidence from a preliminary hearing is not allowed in, then the criminal defendant can knock off the key witness prior to trial, just like the mob used to do, and the prosecutor will have a much more difficult time convicting the s.o.b. I still must stand by my original sense of justice, though. If a star witness should be in that much fear for his or her life, then that witness can go into protective custody, arm themselves, or whatever until after the trial.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>The Wright Law Offices | Las Vegas family Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071240655380080775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037579570910948246.post-38864556163358137772009-08-19T22:22:00.000-07:002011-08-23T20:48:24.929-07:00CRIMINAL: Were you lying then or are you lying now?<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COwner%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Whether you committed a crime or not, you have the right to remain silent when being questioned by an authority figure. The right against self-incrimination is a constitutionally protected fundamental right. This article will point out a few of the reasons you should keep your mouth shut.</p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Reason 1.</p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">The police are not there to help you. They are there to gather evidence against you. Officers will play the good cop by acting like they want to understand you and will be on your side. Then, if you are less than forthcoming, the same cop or another one will become angry and attempt to threaten you into confessing. Do not fall into these traps.</p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">The officers might act like they are just conversing with you. The fact is that they want to gather sufficient evidence so that they have probable cause to arrest you, at which point they will read you your rights-but it could be too late already if you confessed. The officers will say that you confessed voluntarily, even if they manipulated you long before they arrested you. Who are you to then stand up in court and call our fine peacekeepers liars?</p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Reason 2.</p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COwner%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12;" >Officers can purposefully or negligently miss-write on their reports w</span>hat you told them. Police reports are considered to be pretty good evidence in court. When you take the stand and recount under oath the events leading up to your arrest and what you say does not match up with the police report, the District Attorney can then ask you the damning rhetorical question of, "Were you lying then or are you lying now?"</p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Reason 3.</p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">If you told the police anything, whether you are innocent or not, you have just made it much more difficult for your attorney later on to present a theory of the case that could show you are not guilty. By speaking to the officers, you are reducing your possible defenses.</p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Conclusion</p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">A wise man once said something to the effect of "a person is not condemned by what is put in the mouth but by what comes out of." Therefore, when approached by an officer, be polite, courteous, and quiet.</p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Our United States Constitution tells us that we citizens cannot be tried for the same crime twice. For example, if we are charged with murder and a jury finds us not guilty, we cannot again be brought to trial for the same murder later. Double jeopardy is against the law of the land.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">We can, however, be sued. For those who remember the OJ Simpson trials, you will recall that he was first tried for the crime of Murder and was acquitted because the glove did not fit. The murder victims' families later sued OJ for "wrongful death" and he lost millions of dollars. This is not an example of double jeopardy because one trial was for crimes and the other was a civil lawsuit. The constitution only applies to criminal cases.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">However, lawyers who become legislatures have created laws, which are interpreted by other lawyers called District Attorneys, which can cause a person to be punished more than once for the same crime. These laws include "enhancement" statutes and "strikes" laws. Oftentimes the enhancement statutes are interpreted together with the strikes laws to really punish a person. Punishment twice for the same crime is not double jeopardy and does not offend the constitution.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Case in point, Mr. Leandro Andrade of California, was tried and convicted on two counts of shoplifting from K-mart some years ago. Shortly before Christmas, this father with a drug habit, went to K-Mart and stuffed several children's videos down his pants but was caught when leaving the store. He was given a written citation to appear in court. Two weeks later he attempted the same petit larceny at another K-mart and was again caught and cited.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Mr. Andrade had prior convictions for minor non-violent offenses and had served time behind bars for them. Most of his offenses were petty and involved his addiction to drugs.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">What Mr. Andrade did not know and what most of California did not know, was that the new three strikes law would be applied to Andrade's case and Mr. Andrade would spend the rest of his life in prison. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, right? Who knew that two laws in different parts of the criminal code would come together for this result. District Attorneys, that's who.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">You see, California had enhancement statutes, which say that if a person has had prior convictions and commits a new crime, the prior convictions are upgraded to felonies, and so are the new crimes. Thus, in the case of Mr. Andrade, who had had misdemeanors in his past and his newest crimes were also misdemeanors, the enhancement statutes upgraded his prior misdemeanors and his current ones to felony status.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Next, the District Attorney decided to apply the new Three Strikes Law. Under this law, once a person has a third felony conviction, the person will receive a minimum stay in prison of 25 years and a maximum stay of life. Do-gooder legislatures and angry parents created the Three Strikes Law which was intended to put away violent repeat offenders. By violent, the angry parents of dead children meant killers and rapists.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Nevertheless, Leandro Andrade, a Veteran of the Armed Forces, a father, and a non-violent drug addict suffered the Three Strikes Law because the District Attorney, Judge, and even the Supreme Court of the United States believed that although his offenses were not violent, they could have been. They declared that the act of shoplifting could have become violent because any crime shows a disregard for the common welfare and has the potential of becoming dangerous. Besides, an example should be made of Andrade to deter other recidivist from continuing to thumb their noses at the law.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Thus, Mr. Andrade's last two unsuccessful attempts at shoplifting constituted his third and forth felony which became his third and fourth strikes. Now you must be thinking that he received a minimum of 25 years and a maximum of life in prison. Not so.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The District Attorney and Judge declared that each count deserved its own sentence and that the sentences should run consecutively, not concurrently. Therefore, Andrade received a minimum of fifty years in prison and will not be eligible for parole until he is in his late 80s. His children will grow up, go to college, get married, have children of their own and will only get to visit their father occasionally for limited time periods at a prison. No grandpa Leo visiting on Holidays.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Several parents who lost children to murders were outraged when they learned that their efforts were being used to put away people like Andrade. It was a slap in the face to folks who had lost children to killers. They worked so hard for a law that would prevent killers and rapist from committing sixth, seventh, eight, and more crimes, and now the "justice" system was putting away a father who tried to steal less than $500.00 worth of children's videos shortly before Christmas.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">This application of an otherwise well-intended law in California should tell us why California went bankrupt. California shelters and feeds petty offenders for the rest of their natural lives. Meanwhile, real murderers and rapists will be out of prison long before Mr. Andrade so long as their crimes were only the first or second offense.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Constitution of the United States guarantees that we Americans shall not suffer "cruel and unusual" punishment. Some of the Supreme Court Justices had said in the past that even prison terms could be cruel and unusual if the time given was excessive when compared to the offense. However, the very same Justices who had said this in the past declared that Mr. Andrade's punishment fit his crime.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Noteworthy for you readers is that if you are accused of a crime you did not commit but you accept a plea bargain because you cannot afford to take a chance at trial, you will be a convicted criminal in the eyes of our "justice" system. Later on this conviction could be used against you when you are charged with another crime and your punishment can be much more severe.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">And if you think that you will not be charged again with another crime in the future, remember that your prior crime is on the books and any police officer who thinks you are a suspicious person can access your record. If you committed a crime in the past, it is likely that you committed this one too, right?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Innocent people on death row have been exonerated after spending decades behind bars because new DNA evidence proved that they did not commit the crime.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Why were they found guilty? A combination of prior arrests and convictions, overzealous cops, tainted witnesses and evidence, overburdened public defenders, bored sleeping judges, apathetic juries, and mean-spirited or power hungry district attorneys contributed to the convictions.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<o:p></o:p>The Wright Law Offices | Las Vegas family Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071240655380080775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037579570910948246.post-68339449788924408652009-08-19T21:44:00.001-07:002013-12-13T12:29:35.915-08:00CRIMINAL: Traffic Tickets in the Las Vegas Valley<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;">The Las Vegas Valley has four jurisdictions within which to get a moving violation: Clark County (Justice Court Jurisdiction), Las Vegas (Las Vegas Municipal Court Jurisdiction), Henderson (Henderson Municipal Court Jurisdiction), and North Las Vegas (North Las Vegas Municipal Court Jurisdiction).</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Thus, our little metropolis has four parts patrolled by police that belong to each jurisdiction. Las Vegas Metro cruises around Las Vegas and Clark County, however the cops in Henderson stick to Henderson and the cops in North Las Vegas stick to North Las Vegas.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">When you get a citation, one of the first things to look for on the citation is which jurisdiction you are in. It is possible that the cop cited you outside of his jurisdiction. If so, do not argue with the "peace" officer because it could ruin your day, if not your life. Instead, smile warmly, thank him for protecting public safety, and take the ticket to an attorney who will argue the jurisdiction issue before a judge or district attorney who will likely dismiss the citation or greatly reduce the severity--say reducing it from speeding 25 mph over the limit to a parking ticket.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">You should consider a few things when you receive a ticket. Yes, you are probably guilty. If you are guilty, you committed a crime. The crime is a misdemeanor, which is the least severe crime to be charged with. Even though a fine is usually the punishment, jail time and community service are also at the Judge's disposal, along with requiring traffic school, and points on your driving record--which can result increased insurance premiums.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">If it makes you feel better, consider it not a punishment but a user tax. If you use your vehicle a certain way, expect to pay a tax for doing so. The jurisdictions raise revenue through these user taxes. We live in a state that has no personal income tax, so be grateful about that. However, do not ignore the court appearance date or you could be faced with a "bench warrant" for your arrest. This is not fun because you will likely go to jail if stopped again. In addition, an attorney will charge extra to quash the warrant.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Please note, the worst thing you can do is act upset with the police officer who stopped you. They may treat you very poorly, they may search your person (it's called a "Terry Pat Down Search") to look for a weapon or drugs...likewise they may search the passenger compartment of your car all in the name of officer safety. They may do these things on their own initiative, but if they ask to search, politely refuse to consent. If they have to ask, then they probably do not have the requisite reasonable suspicion or probable cause to do it without your consent. It is not wise to consent to a search because cops can literally tear your car apart as part of the search. And then there is the possibility that someone left contraband in your car that you were never aware of-try denying it is yours-I dare you. Cops, district attorneys, and judges have heard that argument a hundred billion times. The best thing to do is to not consent to a search no matter how innocent you believe you are.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Officers are sometimes known to violate Civil Rights and the law, but they have the guns and their buddies in blue to back them up, therefore it is in your interest to be on their best side. The best revenge for a traffic ticket is to hire a lawyer to represent your interest at the courthouse.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Usually lawyers can settle the ticket and you'll end up only having to pay a fine. If you are the type of person to get tickets all over the valley, you should note that some jurisdictions have much heftier fines than others do. I will not tell you which because I want you to be on your best behavior while driving at all times, but just know that a ticket in one part of town may be 5 times more expensive than in another part of town--even after the ticket has been reduced.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">My public service message to you is to treat the ticket like a user tax, smile at the officer politely so that you can live to pay the fine. Most importantly, hire my firm to represent you for your traffic citation. By doing so, you will not have to appear in court-which could be an all day affair for you and I think you probably have better things to do. Call me and ask us what we charge, I firmly believe that when you know what you get from an attorney for the money you pay, you will deem it worthwhile to hire an attorney for your tickets. <br />
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The Wright Law Offices | Las Vegas family Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071240655380080775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037579570910948246.post-41170096142914012172009-08-19T21:36:00.000-07:002009-08-28T22:42:20.787-07:00CRIMINAL: Riding Your Bicycle and Other Arrestable Offences
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<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">The Supreme Court of the United States has held that police officers may arrest any person if there is probable cause of a crime. It is within the cops' dis</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzfMCwugQ_zuENHPsLfiBKMTKbMwVQtLAX37N_iqRia7cq8UwjmSmmBMV1o03-yy0nvuqj2Vsmjkn49w1l-ZImWuSj6PYASlg87k4CVOt5Jc44zi93C1llf6vZBg8hkOrMAcnxhFwvlteE/s1600-h/ant.bike.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 113px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzfMCwugQ_zuENHPsLfiBKMTKbMwVQtLAX37N_iqRia7cq8UwjmSmmBMV1o03-yy0nvuqj2Vsmjkn49w1l-ZImWuSj6PYASlg87k4CVOt5Jc44zi93C1llf6vZBg8hkOrMAcnxhFwvlteE/s200/ant.bike.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375256417827303314" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">c</span><span style="font-size:85%;">retion to arrest you if you were speeding in your car, t</span><span style="font-size:85%;">hrowing a cigarette on the ground, loitering, and riding your bicycle without using proper hand signals. The probable cause comes from the officer witnessing you committing the crime.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
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<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Some of the slickest criminals are ex-felons. They understand the cop psychology and act with the utmost respect toward the officer, saying "Yes sir" and "No sir" and "thank you for informing sir". Even though these ex-felons probably do not pay much by way of taxes and are not responsible for contributing to police salaries, police treat them much nicer sometimes.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Some parents are just crazy. They are unreasonable and will use their children to further their venomous attacks on the other parent. They will accuse the other parent of child abuse. They may even manufacture evidence to hurt the other parent. The scary thing is, these hostile parents often come off as credible in the courtroom. <br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">They can be believable by keeping journals of fictional accounts where they claim the other parent yelled at them in front of the child, or threatened them, etc. They will have family members vouch for them in court and lie on the stand. <br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">This all being said, the court is faced with a serious dilemma, whom to believe. It is therefore recommended that both parents keep journals detailing the raising of the children so that memories cannot fade. One reason people appear to lie on the stand is that they have forgotten something from the past. I also strongly encourage parents to video tape all exchanges and activities. <br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Parental alienation, however, is even more insidious than accusations of abuse or neglect. It is a form of conscious or unconscious mental and emotional coercion where one parent will cause the child to believe certain things about the other parent, causing the child not to want to be with the other parent. <br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">--Spoiling the child with material possessions with full knowledge that the other parent does not wish to spoil the child. The child will then favor the parent who gives in to all the material demands of the child and will dislike the parent who is trying to teach patience and humility. <br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">--Speaking badly of the other parent. Suggesting the other parent does not really love the child or that the other parent is very immoral or evil human being. <br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">A parent who has to deal with another parent who alienates their child should take steps early on to prepare for court battle. The more evidence presented at court by one parent will cause the court to believe the presenting parent. A child should not be a pawn in a battle for vengeance and the parent who clearly has the child's best interest at heart should win with the proper presentation. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">You want to be an upright citizen with opportunities for a good career, however you have a criminal record which you feel will bar you from advancement in life. In State courts you can often seal a State record after a certain length of time and depending on the crime. An attorney can aid you through the procedure.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">However, if your crime happened to be a federal offense, be prepared to spend enormous amounts of money just at the chance to seal your record. The odds are against you because the federal courts have ruled that only in rare situations will the court seal a record-and I mean rare.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Your crime could have been minor, it does not matter. A less expensive and perhaps even better gamble would be to write a personal letter to the President of the United States asking for a presidential pardon.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Sorry folks. Once you are branded by the federal system it is likely a lifetime stain. It reminds me of the novel Les Miserable in which the hero was thrown into prison for many years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his family. Once he served his time, no one wanted to help an ex-convict and the police were always suspicious of him. He eventually changed his identity in order to get some semblance of a good life. However, even then he eventually ended up dying at the hands of an overzealous cop.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">My advice to you is to fight any federal charges from the beginning and not to plead guilty, unless you truly believe that the deal offered by the US <a href="http://www.wrightlawnv.com/" target="_blank">Attorney's</a> office is good and your chance of a conviction and severe punishment is high.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">If you find yourself in the unenviable position of having a federal criminal record, all I can suggest would be to do your best to explain the circumstances in a light favorable to you when a nosy employer asks. Write a summary of the incident explaining it from your point of view and attach it to your job application. If it is well written, it may even improve your chances of getting the job.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<o:p></o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">As our government churns out more and more criminals with its arbitrary enforcement of arbitrary laws, more and more employers will become more and more understanding of your plight. Good luck.</div>The Wright Law Offices | Las Vegas family Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071240655380080775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037579570910948246.post-45446522676318110962009-08-18T22:07:00.001-07:002012-01-29T09:24:41.317-08:00GENERAL: Arguing in the Alternative: Spirit vs. Letter of the Law<h1 face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: justify;"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5COwner%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><style>
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</style> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">In law, <a href="http://wrightlawnv.blogspot.com/2011/12/judges-in-las-vegas-should-heed-this.html" target="_blank">judges </a>often face the issue of whether to follow the letter of the law or to follow the spirit. This issue is by no means a new one and has probably been around since humankind first learned to write. It is one of the major reasons to have lawyers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Judges are supposed to interpret laws; this is their primary function. Judges generally are not supposed to create law; that is the job of the legislature. However, sometimes legislatures draft laws without really thinking about all of the potential problems with interpretation. Savvy lawyers will use these loopholes created by confusing language to influence a judge's decision.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Lawyers who say that a law is black and white do not want judges to interpret beyond the "four corners" of the statute. They will argue that if the legislature wanted the law to be different, then they should revise the wording. Until then, the judge should apply the law in the strictest sense.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Lawyers who want the spirit enforced wish to make the judge consider why the law was enacted in the first place. They argue that the motivation for the law is more important than the actual language.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">By way of example, let us say a statute declares, "Any person caught drinking and driving is guilty of a misdemeanor, for a first offence, punishable of up to a year in jail, or for a second offense, is guilty of a felony, punishable of not less than one year and not more than 5 years."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Willy is pulled over by a police officer and is cited for drinking while driving. Willy was in fact drinking water out of a plastic bottle while stopped at a red light.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Willy hires me because the prosecutor wants to make an example out of him and send a message that violators will be punished. I read the statute and laugh at how stupid the legislators were in drafting the statute.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">I decide that I want to influence the judge by making the judge consider the spirit of the law. The legislature wanted to punish people for drinking alcoholic beverages while driving the vehicle, but the legislature neglected to clarify this in the statute.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The prosecutor does not care about the motive. He wants a conviction because he believes that drinking anything while driving is dangerous. He tells the judge that if the legislature meant "alcoholic" beverage then it should revise the law, in the meantime Willy must go to jail.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The judge appears to believe the prosecutor's viewpoint. I can see it in the glint of his eye. The judge has been embarrassed in the past because he did not follow the statutory language to the letter and a higher judge overturned his decision. Now, I am beginning to feel like I am losing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">So I might say, "Your honor, I fully understand that the letter of the law should be applied even if the intent was to curtail alcohol consumption while driving. If we are going to look at the plain meaning of the statute and not consider the motivations of the legislature, then it is important to consider that Willy was not in fact driving when he drank. The statute clearly states that a person must be driving, however Willy was stopped at a stop light. Thus, by the very language of the statute, he is not guilty of violating the law."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The judge's grimace lightens, his face softens. He never wanted to agree with the prosecutor but felt he had to because the statute seemed clear. My argument, however weak, would be enough to get Willy off.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The prosecutor might argue that Willy simply being in the car with the motor running was "driving" but because the statute did not define the word "driving" the judge is free to interpret the word. The judge could say "driving" meant only the condition of being in motion.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">So, in this example, I might have lost on the strong argument that the spirit of the law was more important than the letter of the law, however I won on a much weaker argument. This is sometimes the case.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">There was a time about 2000 years ago when a group of legal interpreters focused so much on the letter of the law that challengers were killed. These scholars went through hundreds of scenarios to determine if people were guilty of violating the word of the law. Now, the really interesting thing about the words of these laws were that they were considered holy, direct from the mouth of God. Thus, the scholars wanted to make sure that they interpreted correctly. How better to make sure the word of God was followed than to strictly construe the meanings of the words?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Then came a guy who said that the spirit of the laws was more important then the literal meaning of the writing. He explained that the motive behind the laws was to create a happy life for the adherents and give believers hope and joy. The scholarly interpreters (aka "the Pharisees") did not like this obnoxious trouble maker who thought he understood better than they, so they called the police and had him arrested. Then they told the judge that he was causing too many problems with his ideas. If the government wanted peace, they would have to silence this interloper. So they did. They killed him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Whether this story about Jesus and the Pharisees is literally true does not matter. The spirit of the story tells us that lawyers, like Jesus, can get in a lot of trouble for upsetting the time-honored ways of doing things.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Lawyers know that whether you argue for letter or for spirit, you must be prepared to suffer the consequences, so, they argue for both. You will note that in my example about drinking and driving, I explained how I would use both tactics. I argued spirit first and word second because my goal in this one instance was not to change the stupidly drafted law. Nope--my goal was to free Willy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Lawyers are often accused of speaking out of both sides of their mouths. Incidentally, most politicians are lawyers too. There is a reason for it. We want to cover all of our bases. If one argument won't win, try another even if it seems contradictory. Its called, "arguing in the alternative". Have a nice day!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />
</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Copyright: May 2007<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">By: <a href="http://www.wrightlawnv.com/" target="_blank">Anthony M. Wright, Juris Doctor</a></span></div></h1>The Wright Law Offices | Las Vegas family Lawyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071240655380080775noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6037579570910948246.post-35916086728533911082009-08-18T22:01:00.000-07:002012-11-30T21:07:09.978-08:00CRIMINAL: 'I didn't know': What Young Thugs Should Know But Aren't Taught<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong></strong></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">"I didn't know." This is the excuse many criminals give when they did something that violated the law. The excuse is most often used when a misdemeanor occurred and the misdemeanant did not know what he did was wrong. </span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">An example would be not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign, which is a crime in Las Vegas, Nevada . A person from California , where rolling stops are legal, might not know that they are illegal here. It does not matter, however, that the person did not know because ignorance of the law is no excuse.</span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">Most often people feel that their lack of knowledge ought to be an excuse to pardon them from their behavior when the crime was what we in the legal profession call "malum prohibitum", which is Latin for "bad because its prohibited". <o:p></o:p></span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">Malum prohibitum laws come about when our law makers have, in their infinite wisdom, decided that some actions or inactions should be unlawful because they harm or have the potential to harm society in someway. An action or inaction is deemed wrong for public order even it there is no discernable victim. </span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">A rolling stop in Nevada could be dangerous, so it is prohibited and you are a criminal if you violate this law whether you knew better or not and whether an accident occurred or not. The problem is that there are so many laws created by so many law makers, that no one can really knows them all and many otherwise law-abiding citizens become criminals.</span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">Most often, malum prohibitum crimes are also classified as "strict liability" crimes in which the criminal's intention does not matter. It does not matter that you knew that you were committing a crime, all that matters is that a crime was committed. You did not see the speed limit was 25 miles an hour when you were flying by at 75 miles an hour. Too bad, reckless driving-no defense.</span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">Another common example of malum prohibit crimes would be statutory rape. States set age limit on who can have sex with whom. If an adult has sex with a 13 year old and the age of consent is 16, like in Nevada , then the adult is guilty of statutory rape even though the adult thought the minor was 18. A mistake of fact is not an excuse for a strict liability crime.</span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">On the other hand, we have another category of crime which is called "malum in se." Malum in se means "evil in and of itself". These crimes are crimes that people should know are wrong because their conscience tells them so. Our lawmakers have codified these crimes, but even if they hadn't, we would still know the crime to be wrong based on our morality. Such crimes include murder, rape, mayhem, robbery, arson, and others. One problem is that many of our young are not taught morality-anywhere.</span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">Malum in se crimes are generally not strict liability crimes because we want to make sure that the person who did the act had the intent of committing it. In the case of murder, a person is found dead and another person is charged with the murder. The charged person says that the death was accidental and that he did not intend for the person do die. Because murderers have done the ultimate human atrocity, we want to punish them severely; however, we want first to make sure they were in fact responsible.</span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">Therefore, the prosecutor must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that in fact the death was the result of an intentional act and that the desired result was death. The prosecutor has the burden of proving the criminal elements of "mens rea," "actus reus", and a concurrence of actus reus and mens rea. (aka: mental intent, physical act, and the coming together of the mental intent and physical act.)</span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">The above is the background for the lesson of this article, which is that our public schools do not teach our students to know the basics of the law of the land. As a result, young hoodlums go too far in carrying out their little crimes because they do not know the full ramifications of their actions. </span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">Many criminal lawyers believe that there is one crime where the excuse of "I didn't know" really ought to be taken seriously, and that is the crime of felony murder. Unless you are a crime buff or have gone to law school, you probably do not have the first clue of what felony murder is. And yet, many young thugs who are just high on the idea of doing a minor, yet forbidden, crime end up guilty of felony murder which carries, in many jurisdictions, the same punishment as cold blooded, first degree murder. </span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">You see, even though the word "murder" is in the name and murder is ordinarily characterized as a "malum in se" crime requiring mental intent, in the United States we treat felony murder like a strict liability crime.</span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">Question: How many murders can the two boys be charged with? The answer is three. Even though the gun toting hoodlum actually only killed the clerk, both boys can be charged with three murders because three deaths occurred during the felony of armed robbery. </span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">The clerk was accidentally killed by the hoodlum who panicked, but it does not matter because the death occurred during the commission of a felony, thus felony murder. The boy who did not fire the gun is still guilty of felony murder just as if he was the one holding it.</span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">The two surviving hoodlums could be locked up for the rest of their lives for an indiscretion they did at 18 years old due in part because of the negligence of our education system. Our educators failed to inform our youth that even a crime where no one was supposed to get hurt could end up being felony murder. Our prisons are crowded with some of these wrong-headed kids who might have otherwise been good citizens.</span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">As a nation, we punish our criminals as a deterrent to prevent other would be criminals from committing the crimes. How can we expect to deter would-be criminals if we do not educate our young people? Some of what is taught in law school should definitely be taught in junior high and again in high school.</span></strong></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong><strong><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 115%;">Do not commit a felony such as robbery or rape because if a death results, you are a murderer whether that was your intent or not. Felony murder is tried by the prosecutors like a malum prohibitum traffic citation, but punished severely just like malum in se murder. The excuse of "I didn't know" will not help you even if you are justified in believing it would because of the failure of our education system. Felony murder is an example of what happens when our government's justice system meets up with our government's education system-tragedy!</span></strong></strong></span></div>
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