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Is it legal to deny prisoner's in Florida the right to receive mail?
My son is incarcerated at Pasco City Detention Center in Land O'Lakes, Florida. As of March 30th they are not allowed to receive letters, only postcards. Is that legal? He has been there for 1 year today,and doesn't go to trial for over a month still. These letters and pictures are all he has for contact and sanity. The phone system is set up for timed 15 minute calls at $20.00...
03/27/2009 | Category: Criminal | State: Maine | #15792How can someone get charges dropped for a crime they did not commit?
My Grandson worked in receiving at a sporting goods business, and one of his duties was to open boxes and put items on display. He needed a knife to open boxes of products, so he opened, and used, one of the knives he was unpacking. He did not take the knife for his own personal use, nor did he keep it. He looked for the original packaging, but somebody had come by and picked i...
03/27/2009 | Category: Criminal | State: California | #15791How can my daughter request a change of venue for criminal charges she is facing?
My daughter was arrested in SD. She is being charged with 3 counts of attempted murder. She was in a hotel room VERY depressed and was going to comitt suicide. A welfare ck was called in on her and they went to her door and she was holding a gun (she is a police officer) but it was down on her side and they jumped her and tazed her. She had no control and the gun emptied in...
03/27/2009 | Category: Criminal | State: Colorado | #15787Deferred Adjudication in Oregon
My daughter recently moved to a dorm in college and received a MIP (minor in possession) citation. She went to court and was offered to take a class that would remove this citation from her record if she successfully completed the course and did not repeat this crime for the year following the citation. This was a one time offer because she has never been in trouble. She is ba...
03/26/2009 | Category: Criminal | State: Oregon | #15770Are those allowed out of prison while in treatment for addiction considered paroled?
Are those allowed out of prison while in treatment for addiction or alcoholism under California proposition 36 considered to be on parole?
03/25/2009 | Category: Criminal | State: California | #15760Can a 'Continuance Without a Finding' be considered a misdemeanor if it was dismissed?
Can a person with a 'Continuance Without a Finding' (first offense) for possession on a small amount of a controlled substance B, (whereas the probationary period was successfully terminated, and the case was then dismissed)be considered by the legal system (immediately post dismissal) as a person who has a misdemeanor on their record?
03/24/2009 | Category: Criminal | State: Massachusetts | #15750Can my son be placed under arrest for an incident occuring on the school bus three weeks after?
My 14 year old son may be charged with battery for an incident that happened on a school bus. Students on the bus were going back and forth with this girl. She became angry and directed a lot of anger and made threats to my son. As she approached him a few times with a belt and threatened to hit him, he pulled out his belt to defend himself against her. All 3 students were ...
03/21/2009 | Category: Criminal | State: Illinois | #15707Is Inappropriate Touching in Tanning Salon viewed as Sexual Harassment?
Spray tanning in an enclosed room. Sexual harassment if touched inappropriately?
03/18/2009 | Category: Criminal | State: Massachusetts | #15678Sex Offender
My boyfriend of one year has told me that he was arrested 4 months AFTER having sex with a minor whom had lied about her age at that time. now he feels like he is living in hell right now because he couldn't get a job or move in with me; the state made him to be placed on the sex offender registry level two! i just found out that he will be on the registry for life just because...
03/17/2009 | Category: Criminal | State: ALL | #15663What can I do for my 13 year old mentally handicapped son who has been charged with a sex crime?
My son is 13 years old he is charged with gross sexual impostion with a 4 year old. He has been in special education all his life, he told the judge that he under stood the charges and penalty involved, I feel that he doesn't. This happen in a county other than ours police question without talking to us, his legal guardians. We didn't hear from the police for about a month, t...
03/15/2009 | Category: Criminal | State: Ohio | #15631