Determining legal responsibility (i.e. liability) for an accident or injury can be complicated. It often rests on whether someone was careless or negligent. Sometimes, one party is clearly at fault while the other is completely blameless. However, its often the case that several different people share blame. This can also include blame placed on the […]
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A peek inside jury deliberations
Criminal defense attorneys and personal injury attorneys spend lots of time analyzing what happens during juror deliberations. A juror on the high profile case of Whitey Bulger has given us a peek inside jury deliberations in that case. Juror: We gave Bulger ‘benefit of the doubt’ on some murders He [the juror] said that some jurors […]
Sexual assaults inside women’s prison
A new government report on the rate of sexual victimization in America’s jails and prisons lists the State of Colorado’s Denver Women’s Correctional Facility as having the highest rate of sexual assault and misconduct by staff of any facility in the nation. The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics’ survey of more than 92,000 […]
Sealing your criminal record
Is there a way to get my record sealed? In New Mexico, the only way to get your record sealed is if you were a juvenile when the crime was committed, or if you can prove some kind of identity theft. Sealing your record in a juvenile case: As a juvenile you file a motion […]
Is a conviction part of public record?
Yes. All criminal convictions are public record. If I apply for a job and I don’t disclose it, how would they find out? Different companies have different systems they use for background checks. Some are more thorough than others, and so if the company chooses to run your name through one of these systems, it […]
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