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The Governor of Kentucky has recently signed into law a controversial bill involving eye care for residents of that state.

The bill, labeled SB 110, has had a significantly short journey, from its initial overwhelming passage in the Senate to its impressive passage in the House of Representatives in Kentucky. A New York Criminal Lawyer realized that both of these passages occurred within the same week in January, followed by a brief pause in the process until the governor signed the bill into law on Feb. 24.

The main provision of the bill is controversial in nature: on the surface, it allows for optometrists to perform certain types of minor surgery on patients that was once only administered by highly trained surgeons. The governor is quoted as saying, “Access to quality health care is a critical issue for families across the commonwealth”. He went on to promote the decision, declaring, “After careful consideration, along with meeting with many interested parties, today I signed Senate Bill 110 to give Kentuckians greater access to necessary eye care”, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. Opponents of this decision cite what they believe to be a disastrous result of this law: according to the president of the Kentucky Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, “Optometrists simply do not have the training necessary to perform these procedures or manage the kinds of serious complications that can arise during surgery.”

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An Upper Marlboro, Maryland, man will spend the next three and one half years in prison after pleading guilty this past January to misdemeanor DUI, and two felony charges of attempting to injure a police officer and eluding unlawfully, a New York Criminal Lawyer explained.

The incident occurred August 7, 2010, when a Culpeper County Sheriff’s Deputy pulled the 35-year old man over on Route 3 near Mount Pony for going 74 in a 55-mph zone. Sources further told a NY Criminal Attorney that as the deputy approached the vehicle, the driver nearly struck the deputy after throwing his vehicle into reverse. With deputies in pursuit at more than 100-miles per hour, the driver stuck another vehicle that was driven by a 22-year old mother who also had her 1-year old son in the vehicle. Following a brief struggle, deputies took the man into custody, and during their investigation deputies learned, the man’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was 0.18, which is more than twice the legal BAC limit in Maryland of 0.08. He was charged with DWI.

Although three other charges against the man were later indefinitely suspended, prosecutors in this case said that the sentence the court imposed sent a clear message to anyone who chooses to take their vehicle and use it as a weapon in an attempt to elude law enforcement officers. He went on to add, “Innocent users of the highway deserve to be protected from this type of conduct.”

Sources have told a New York Criminal Lawyer that a California man was arrested late Thursday following a vehicle crash that left three people injured including the man that officers say caused the crash. At approximately 8:35 p.m. Wednesday evening, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) began receiving reports of a vehicle on northbound 101 driving in the wrong direction. As officers were en route to the location stated in the reports, they began hearing additional reports of a four or five vehicle collision in the vicinity of the location of the previous reports.

During the course of their investigation, CHP officers learned that as the vehicle that had been driving in the wrong direction entered the freeway, it had struck a vehicle and as it traveled the wrong way, it had struck two additional vehicles. It was after this that the driver of the vehicle reportedly lost control, struck the center divider, and rolled over multiple times, witnesses explained to a NY Criminal Attorney.

First responders on the scene used the jaws-of-life to extricate the wrong way driver from his vehicle. The man received a broken leg and multiple facial fractures, but before being transported to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital for treatment, he was arrested for “suspicion of felony DUI and driving without a license,” officers reported. A person riding in the vehicle was also taken the hospital to be treated for cuts. That person was later released from the hospital.

One of the people responsible for the public safety for citizens in Florida is under arrest. A fireman who works with the Bonita Springs Fire Department was arrested for suspicion of DUI in January. A New York Criminal Lawyer says the man was seen driving erratically on a weeknight, late at night. He was pulled over and administered a sobriety test.

The police man who made the arrest did not comment on the case of the situation, since the police department and the fire department work together often. The Bonita Springs spokeswoman for the district says that the fireman will remain on staff until after his trial. The N York Criminal Lawyer believes that the job of the fireman may be in jeopardy since his job requires the driving ability of the fire trucks and rescue vehicles to get to the scene of many of the accidents. Many other public service agencies have similar rules that make their employees have clean driving records in order to maintain employment.

The fire man was only employed five years ago with the department. He was hired when he was 21 years old and has been employed ever since and in good standing. There is no official word on his upcoming trial or if he will seek a plea to avoid charges of DWI being placed on his record. If charges are not placed on his record he may be able to keep hiS job with the fire department.

The 18th Street Gang, a group with alleged organized crime roots in Greeley Colorado, is five members short following indictments served by a Weld County Grand Jury and their subsequent arrests this past weekend according to a source identified as a NY Criminal Lawyer.

Indictments, arrest warrants and arrests were all made under the provisions of the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act. Authorities made one arrest out of state in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Two suspects were arrested in Greeley, Colorado, while two 18th Street Gang members were already in custody at the time warrants were served.

The suspects were all part of the notorious 18th Street Gang. 18th Street Gang has a national reputation with operations throughout the country. It formed originally in California’s Shatto Park district in Los Angeles and is regarded as one of the most active and violent gangs operating within and across US borders authorities told a NYC Criminal Lawyer.

An Alabama man is finding himself in some pretty hot water after running off with a 16 year old girl from Texas that he met on the Internet, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer. The teen girl was reported missing after she had been seen getting into the man’s truck while she was visiting relatives and friends in the town of Daphne, near where the 20 year old man lived. The girl was found unharmed and it does not appear that she was forced into the truck with the accused.

The two had met online several months before the incident and their Internet relationship quickly became serious. After a short time, they made plans to meet in real life as soon as possible. Once the young girl went missing and authorities were notified, what had started out as an online romance turned into a possible felony conviction for the man she was with. They were found in an apartment in Enterprise a week after the girl was reported as missing.

The N York Criminal Lawyer claimed the El Paso teen is expected to be returned to her mother in Texas. At this time, the man is being charged with interference with child custody. Alabama law recognizes this charge as a Class C felony, for which the accused could receive up to ten years in jail, if convicted. It is not known whether or not the mother of the young girl was aware of this online exchange prior to the girl’s disappearance.

As part of an ongoing journalistic investigation, a New York Criminal Lawyer has learned that a sheriff’s deputy has been arrested and charged as part of a broader conspiracy that has already lead to other arrests within local police departments. It is alleged that each of the arrested men, conspired to sell drugs that were scheduled to be destroyed by the police department, as well as making specified DUI arrests that resulted in cash payments.

There are at least three individuals that have been arrested as part of this ongoing police investigation. One is the sheriff’s deputy, another is a former police commander, and another is a private investigator. Each of them is currently out on bail and awaiting the conclusion of this investigation and possible impending trial.

Apart from the selling of impounded drugs that were scheduled for destruction, one of the groups more dastardly alleged plots was to use DWI stops in order to tarnish an individual’s reputation before a set trial date. While another alleged plot was a DUI stop on the husbands of some of the private investigator’s female clients that were seeking cause for divorce.

A Texas billionaire who is accused of running a Ponzi scheme and milking several investors for an excess of $7 million dollars before he was done has been granted a delay in his trial, stated a New York Criminal Lawyer. But prosecutors are up in arms because the man’s attorneys are asking for a two year delay, which is by all accounts a very long time. 

Perhaps prosecutors are worried that by the time his trial finally gets underway, the intensity of his crime will have diminished and he will get a lesser sentence than if it happened right away. Perhaps that is just what the man’s legal counsel is hoping for. The man’s lawyers are now saying that he is mentally incompetent and is not able to stand trial at this time. Two years will give him enough time to sort out his issues and be able to represent himself in court. 

The NY Criminal Lawyer reports that delaying the trial for two years could backfire if more evidence against the accused is found between now and then. Though it would be nice to be able to postpone the inevitable, as most of us are wont to do, it is really in the best interests of all involved to get this case over with as rapidly as possible. The New York Criminal Lawyer also admitted that it does no good to tie a case up in court for two years that could be effectively settled in less time.

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A man was arrested earlier this month when his wife was found in bed, covered with urine and feces, according to a New York Criminal Lawyer.

The woman, who suffered from an illness that caused her to be bedridden, was supposedly under the care of her husband. However, authorities have determined that he left his wife alone in the bedroom for two to three days at a time.

The room in which the woman was found was reported to be in deplorable condition. Only one EMT, a female worker who was smaller in stature, managed to squeeze through a six inch gap in the doorway.

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The right to legal counsel is one of the basic rights that are guaranteed by the U.S. Bill of Rights. While there are some who may argue that applies only to criminal cases, an attorney for at least six indigent parents who have been incarcerated in various Georgia jails says otherwise, a New York City Criminal Lawyer discovered.

A senior attorney with the civil rights group the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR), has filed a class action lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court on behalf of at least six parents that are currently sitting in a Georgia jail for being too poor to pay their child support payments. The suit further alleges that the State of Georgia has continued to incarcerate these parents in some cases for more than a year and has failed to provide them with the legal counsel they need to prove that they are indigent.

When contacted by a N York City Criminal Attorney, the Georgia Attorney General’s office had little to say other than they had not seen the complaint, nor have they reviewed any of the circumstances of the plaintiffs. Based on these factors, they had no further comments. However, the attorney who is representing those parents who are affected by this had many comments.