CRIMINAL DEFENSE: Rehaif v. United States (2019) – Does a defendant have to know they are illegally present in the Country to Illegally possess a firearm in violation of the law?

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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“Criminal Law and Philosophy” is a GREAT JOURNAL!

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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Double Jeopardy v. Dual-Sovereignty – a 2019 Supreme Court Opinion

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/587/17-646/ – Gamble v. United States (2019). https://www.oyez.org/cases/2018/17-646 – Oyez Summary – listen to the 1:19:00 Oral Arguments. —————————————————–I am working on a blog post about this case. Gamble argued double jeopardy because he was convicted on the State and the Federal levels for “Felon in Possession of a Firearm” both based on the same incident. It is not double jeopardy. It is dual-sovereignty. It does not always happen, but when it does it is valid. A crime is any act coupled with intent against which there is a valid statute defined by…

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The Ross Ulbricht Amici Curiae brief – The “Dread Pirate Roberts” of the Silk Road.

The Question Presented: Does the Fourth Amendment permit the government to track and monitor citizens’ Internet browsing activity without a warrant? The link to the Amici Curiae Brief. Brief from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Table of Authorities (same order as in brief) Cases Carpenter v. United States (2018) – oyez brief Does the warrantless search and seizure of cell phone records, which include the location and movements of cell phone users, violate the Fourth Amendment? 5-4 Majority that it was a violation of 4th to search location data of 3rd party.…

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The Client Documents we use at Apex Law Service

Apex Law Service uses these exact documents on a day in and day out basis for Criminal Defense work, and also for Civil Matters, and we use these documents as sample documents for our Consulting Clients who are starting similar businesses. Feel free to download, modify and use these documents in your own private business any way you want. Join NAOLDP, the National Association of Online Legal Document Professionals, and use DocupletionForms to build online forms that select and complete documents.  Also, please don’t forget the project for Kids on…

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE ISSUE – Riley v. California: Warrantless Celphone Searches Incident to Arrest.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE ISSUE – Riley v. California: Warrantless Celphone Searches Incident to Arrest. Riley v. California has clarified the rules regarding warrantless cellphone searches incident to arrest.  Riley was initially convicted based on information obtained through a warrantless search incident to his arrest.  Photographic evidence from the phone was used to qualify him as a member of a gang.  Riley had no previous documented gang affiliation.  Police pulled Riley over in a vehicle with expired registration.  When riley was arrested and the car impounded, there were discovered 2 weapons and…

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