Police dogs have been commonplace in America for well over 100 years. Just like the police, some of these dogs have performed near-miracles while assisting victims of crime – and these dogs have sometimes been used as tools of oppression, violence, and terror against...
Year: 2016
Show Your Work
A lot of people who call to ask about representation after a DUI arrest ask me what I can do for them. It’s a good question for you to ask of a lawyer, and the answer depends on what you mean by “What can I do?” If the question is “What can I accomplish?” the answer...
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Recently in Police Misconduct Category Show Your Work September 3, 2013, by Applegate Law Office A lot of people who call to ask about representation after a DUI arrest ask me what I can do for them. It’s a good question for you to ask of a lawyer, and the answer...
Prisoners of Second-Hand Stupidity
A while ago, I suggested that that the State of California seems to want prisoners to die. Maybe I was too harsh; maybe the State of California, as a governing entity, is just so cripplingly stupid that it can’t help but kill off prisoners, like Lenny with his little...
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Recently in Civil Rights Category Prisoners of Second-Hand Stupidity July 16, 2013, by Applegate Law Office A while ago, I suggested that that the State of California seems to want prisoners to die. Maybe I was too harsh; maybe the State of California, as a governing...
You Have The Right To Remain Silent
It may not have been a big story in the news, but a recent Press Democrat article caught my eye: Satanic graffiti was found on a sign at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation on Mendocino Avenue in Santa Rosa. I’ve had clients who were charged with graffiti, and...
Your Good Lawyer and Your Good Deeds
Sometimes the evidence is stacked against you. There’s a clear, well-lit video on which you can be seen and heard stating “As God is my witness, my name is John Q. Public and I am acting of my own free will!” before punching someone in the face, or drinking 10 shots...
No Give-sies Back-sies, No Black Magic
There are a nearly ridiculous number of axioms in the law — pithy sayings that convey a fairly complicated idea in very few words. It seems that most of them are either in Latin (res ipsa loquitur!) or deal with something unpleasant (the law is an ass!), or both –...
Your Sixth DUI — when you need your lawyer to be more than a lawyer
Most of us have found some lesson in our personal lives that we needed to learn more than once — sometimes over and over again. For 72-year-old Karren Erecius of Santa Rosa, the lesson was not to get behind the wheel when she’d been drinking. In March of this year,...