Federal Sentencing Hearings There is a big difference between state and federal court when as to how a judge determines your sentence. If you decide to enter into a plea in state court, generally speaking, your attorney and the prosecutor come to an agreed sentence. Though the judge always has the final say, the judge almost always goes along with…
Now more than ever, courts are adding some type of electronic monitoring as a condition of bond. Though Sheriff’s Electronic Monitoring, Pre-trial Electronic Monitoring, and Global Position System Monitoring all seem to be the same type of bond condition, they have significant differences. The Cook County Sheriff’s Electronic Monitoring Program The Cook County Sheriff’s Electronic Monitoring Program, also referred to…
When I first meet with prospective client, many of the them ask me what I think of their case, or what arguments I will make to win their case, or if I think they will go to prison or get probation. Before any lawyer might be able to answer any of these questions, a lawyer must receive and review ‘the…
If you’re charged with any criminal offense, your number one question should be how can I beat this case? Depending on the specific crime and its underlying factual allegations, you may be able to beat your case by filing a motion. But before diving into the specifics, it’s important to know what a motion is and when they should be…
Helpful links to the following courts’ operations between 3/17 and 4/16: Cook County http://www.cookcountycourt.org/ Lake County, Illinois https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ILLAKE/bulletins/2818211 Will County https://files.constantcontact.com/89bab4d8001/09ecae5a-3661-4184-aec0-29defc983bf4.pdf DuPage County https://www.dupageco.org/Courts/Docs/62587/ Northern District of Illinois For additional information or other court information please contact us.
An FBI investigation secretly recorded Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. The latest from Washington, D.C. The gold trade in medieval Africa. And the state Supreme Court rules on your privacy. Watch the live video here. Gal Appears at 41:30 mark.
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COME BACK WITH A WARRANT. At least, that’s what the United States Supreme Court told the government this June. In a nearly unanimous opinion (Justice Alito filed a concurrence), the highest court in the land ruled that police officers must secure a warrant before searching data on a cell phone seized from an individual who has been arrested. The Court…
CHICAGO — Drew Peterson’s wisecracking, limelight-hogging, sunglasses-wearing lawyers faced the media horde every day of the former suburban Chicago police officer’s 2012 trial – one that ended with a murder conviction and a falling out among the erstwhile colleagues. But the lawyerly war of words in public between lead trial counsel Joel Brodsky and former partner-turned-nemesis Steve Greenberg that began…
Ambrosio Medrano, a former Chicago alderman convicted nearly two decades ago of public corruption, was searching for a financial opportunity for his wife of 35 years so the two could retire and spend time with their grandchildren, his attorney told a jury today at Medrano’s federal bribery trial. So when an acquaintance said he had a millionaire medical sales rep…