By H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Domestic Violence Criminal Defense Lawyer
Recent research has established a critically important, but sad, irony involving a suspect’s decision to leave or stay at the scene of a domestic violence case and wait for the arrival of the police.
By H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Criminal Defense Lawyer
The term “dual arrest” means the police, in investigating a domestic violence case, means arresting both (or more than two) parties at the scene. This occurs most often in Colorado domestic violence cases where it is difficult to identify the “primary aggressor” (the person responsible for starting the altercation usually striking the first blow) and both parties have been injured.
By H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Criminal Defense Lawyer
This is a complex area of criminal law. To understand your duty as a Colorado Driver involved in a serious car accident, a closer look at how the criminal law in this area is structured will help you to understand the dangers of making the wrong decision at the scene of a serious accident.
H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Criminal Defense Lawyer
While I have written about Colorado’s Deferred Judgement laws before, it is a critical part of Colorado criminal law the impact of the “loss” of a deferred judgement can have long term consequences to the person involved.
By H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Criminal Defense Lawyer
There is a complex world of laws that create a somewhat hard to define line between the exercise of a person’s right to free speech in criticizing and making a credible threat made to that judge or prosecutor.
On one side of the line is a First Amendment-protected angry remark about how the judge or prosecutor handled a specific case. On the other side of the line lies serious Colorado felonies that punish so-called “unprotected speech.”
By H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Criminal Defense Lawyer
I have written about polygraphs in the past but it is a subject that comes up quite often – especially in cases where the evidence against my clients is somewhat weak.
By H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Criminal Defense Lawyer
It is common for threats of civil lawsuits to have the impact of a kind of extortion. Typically, one side blusters and threatens the other side with a lawsuit that will “destroy them” if they don’t settle in a way that is acceptable to the party making the threats.
The question is raised as to whether the person making this kind of threat is committing the crime of extortion. To answer that question, a close analysis of the complex crime of extortion is needed.
By H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Criminal Defense Lawyer
While I have previously written on the Colorado crime of stalking, the crime is charged more and more commonly in Colorado and a deeper understanding of this complex crime is needed.
Stalking is a unique and relatively “new” crime whose elements are somewhat unusual and therefore equally unique to defend. This article closely explores the crime of stalking and issues surrounding both prosecuting and defending stalking cases in the courts of Colorado.
By Colorado Criminal Defense Lawyer H. Michael Steinberg
The criminal side of Colorado’s revenge porn laws has not changed as of the date of this article (December 2020).
I have recently written on the Colorado criminal revenge porn laws and include this link to that article here. However, a quick review of the criminal consequences of publishing so-called revenge pornography may be helpful.
By H. Michael Steinberg Colorado Criminal Defense Lawyer
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