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What is Solitary Confinement in California Jail? Solitary Confinement in California Jail is essentially a punishment one may receive beyond a normal prison sentence. When you are placed in solitary confinement, the whole idea is that you remain free of all human contact, other than possible conta...

What is a Hate Crime in the USA? A hate crime in the USA is on the rise is defined as a violent crime, motivated by hatred of someone else's race, color, national origin, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or political beliefs, among other things. Some primary motives for hate crimes are, but ...

What is the Crime of Forcible Sexual Penetration with a Foreign Object – PC- 289? The crime of Forcible Sexual Penetration with a foreign object is very similar to the crime of Rape under PC 261- the chief difference being that with the crime of Rape under PC 261 the penetration is accomplished w...

Deaths by Unjustified Police Shootings Epidemic: Unjustified Police Shootings, in 2017, 987 humans have been shot and killed by police in the US. That's 24 more fatal shootings than in 2016, and 8 less than 2015. Countless more animals are killed every year. So many, in fact that it has become an...

What is an “Accessory”? Accessory to a crime after the fact means that you helped somebody after that person committed a felony with the intention that they escape punishment. It is a less serious charge than to help somebody in the planning or commission of a felony crime, but it is still a seri...

Crimes Over the Internet The term cybercrime often evokes an image of someone in a foreign country hacking a major government agency when, in reality, cybercrime in California covers a wide range of conduct. This is in addition to any federal crimes that can be committed using the Internet. Commo...

Crime Rises as Crypto Rises According to the subject of Crypto & Crime on the Blockchain, and also as cryptocurrencies grow in popularity, so will the number of crimes that revolve around the technology. Just like the advent of the internet gave birth to ‘cybercrime', the advent of cryptocurrenci...

Interpreting the Law The role of the Judge in a Criminal Case has several duties. They interpret the laws, assess any evidence presented, and oversee how hearings and trials unfold in the criminal courtroom. But perhaps most importantly, in the majority of criminal cases, judges are the impartial...

The War on Drugs Continues Despite plenty of strong evidence proving that the “War on Drugs” is a complete and utter failure, according to the FBIs new Uniform Crime Report, more than 1.57 million arrests for drug law violations were made in 2016, a 5.63% increase over the previous year. Over ...

2017 Seppi Esfandi Law Scholarship Recipients Recipient: Misty D. Gaubatz Selected by Scholarship Committee: $1,050 Law School: University of Montana Thanks to Misty for her excellent and compelling essay on Domestic Violence. She has given us permission to post the article here on our ...

The Burden of Proof and Direct vs Circumstantial Evidence The Burden of Proof and The Difference Between Direct vs Circumstantial Evidence, in Criminal Law, the ‘People' represented by the District Attorney must prove a defendants guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in order to obtain a conviction of...

Hit and Run Statistics in Nationwide vs. Los Angeles Hit and Run statistics of accidents in Los Angeles have been steadily rising over the last decade. In fact, a whopping 50 percent of all traffic accidents reported in Greater Los Angeles are categorized as “hit and run”. Compared to the rest of...

Nationwide Violence vs. Los Angeles The Gun Crime Statistics (Dangerous Weapons, PC 12020) in Los Angeles is considerably higher than the national average in America. On average, the total crime rate is 31 per thousand residents in the city of Los Angeles, with 6 out of one thousand being violent...

Recreational and Medical Marijuana Laws Will Feds Crackdown on Recreational Marijuana? As of 2017, eight states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational use of cannabis among adults, including Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada. In t...

Coming to America: The Migrant Crisis of the Americas Due to The Migrant Crisis of the Americas, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the go...

2017 winner(s) announced below School is difficult enough without having to worry about finances, that's why we've created a fairly simple scholarship opportunity for all law students. Esfandi Law Firm proudly announces The Seppi Esfandi Law Scholarship, a nationwide private scholarship offered t...

New Crime Mapping Web Application Due to New Crime Mapping Web Application subject, CrimeMapping is an online public resource created by The Omega Group providing an overview of designated crimes within a particular law enforcement agency. Data is published with the expressed permission of each p...