Extended Vijay Law Library

The minutes and hours after an arrest are often when people do the most damage to their own cases, and they do it while trying to help themselves. They explain, they correct the record, they tell the officer what “really happened”. They consent to a search to look…

Some cases are about a fine, a license, or a difficult year. Others are about whether a person spends the rest of their life in prison. The most serious criminal charges - homicide, attempted murder, gang crimes, sex offenses, three-strikes cases, armed robbery,…

When a criminal case cannot be resolved another way, it is decided in a courtroom, in front of a jury, and everything the defense did or failed to do in the months before arrives there with it. This article is about how criminal cases are actually won at trial. It…

A criminal record in California does not usually fade with time. An arrest from twenty years ago often sits in the same databases as an arrest from last week, and it surfaces at the worst moments: a job application, a professional license, an immigration…

. Most people think of a hit and run as a crime about a car accident. It is not, exactly. It is a crime about what you do after the accident. You can be completely free of fault for the collision itself, the other driver ran the light, the pedestrian stepped out,…