There have been recent court cases involving security guards where emotions like rage played a role in the discharge of their duties, leading to criminal accusations such as assault. In these cases, effective criminal defense strategies have varied based on the circumstances: Claiming Self-Defense: In June 2024, Charles Scaggs, a former WWE wrestler working as a security guard in Kansas City, was involved in a physical altercation at a gas station. Scaggs confronted a man for lighting a cigarette inside the store, which escalated into a fight outside. Scaggs claimed…
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LAW REVIEW JOURNAL SUMMARY: A Typology of Lone Wolves: Preliminary Analysis of Lone Islamist Terrorists
Journal Author: Raffaello Pantucci – The International Center for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence Summary/Outline Written by James F. Polk Raffaello Pantucci is an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) (Pantucci p. 2). His work focuses on European security, counter-terrorism and radicalization, but he is world renowned and also writes about similarities and differences between the European situation of radicalization and that of the United States of America, shedding light on the American situation. He has written in several highly esteemed U.S.…
Read MoreCRIMINAL JUSTICE ISSUE – Incarceration v. Community Corrections.
32% of the correctional population is actually incarcerated yet 88% of correctional funds go towards this segment of the population (Mallicoat p. 312 – from Pew, 2011). The portion of the corrections system that suffers is obviously community corrections. During the beginning of the 1970’s there began to be promulgated the perspective that community corrections was “soft on crime (Mallicoat p. 309). In an odd little concurrence of opinion on an issue, both liberals and conservatives agreed that rehabilitation should end as a main component of corrections. Liberals felt that…
Read MoreCRIMINAL DEFENSE: A Scenario in a DMV Administrative Per Se Hearing.
Hi, James Polk here from Apex Law Service. We provide lower-cost paralegal hours for our clients who are being charged with crimes. You hire us and then you hire your attorney who is also one of our clients who has hired us to find clients for them and we do the paralegal hours in the middle. We charge $150/hr. rather than up to $280 dollars an hour that different law firms charge. This is not a scenario to go out and try to cause to occur. This is simply a…
Read MoreCRIMINAL DEFENSE: 4th Amendment Issues of Curtilage and Dominion & Control.
Apex Law Service: 4th Amendment Issues. Hi, James Polk here with Apex Law Service. www.ApexLawService.com is our website and we do outsourced paralegal work in the criminal defense arena for Attorneys who hire us to find Clients who need to defend themselves against criminal charges. If you’re a Client and you need to hire an Attorney you can hire us first and then what we do is we do paralegal hours at a lower rate than most Law Firms. We charge $150 an hour whereas most Law Firms charge up to…
Read MoreCRIMINAL DEFENSE: Fernandez v. California – Another 4th Amendment Issue.
Apex Law Service: Fernandez v. California – Another 4th Amendment Issue. Hi, James Polk here with Apex Law Service. www.ApexLawService.com is our website and we do outsourced paralegal work in the criminal defense arena for Attorneys who hire us to find Clients who need to defend themselves against criminal charges. If you’re a Client and you need to hire an Attorney you can hire us first and then what ww do is we do paralegal hours at a lower rate than most Law Firms. We charge $150 an hour whereas most Law…
Read MoreCRIMINAL DEFENSE: Quarles v. United States (2019) – When must intent start with “Remaining In Burglary”?
Hi, James Polk here with Apex Law Service. www.ApexLawService.com is our website and we do outsourced paralegal work in the criminal defense arena for Attorneys who hire us to find Clients who need to defend themselves against criminal charges. If you’re a Client and you need to hire an Attorney you can hire us first and then what we do is we do paralegal hours at a lower rate than most Law Firms. We charge $150 an hour whereas most Law Firms charge up to $280 dollars an hour. The…
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