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 In an article appearing online in the Statesman it appears that DBSI president Douglas Swenson will have to answer questions under oath in the DBSI Bankruptcy case now pending.  Here is the classic dilemma – answer the questions and face the use of your testimony in an all but certain criminal case, or refuse to answer and invoke the constitutional…

Continue Reading Judge To DBSI President – Testify Or Else

 On a day when Canyon County Prosecutor John Bujak announced that his office had taken over the contract to provide "prosecutor services" to the City of Nampa, his office also announced that it had charged a 15 year-old girl with tricking another girl into sending her a nude photo, which she then distributed to other students at her high school.

Continue Reading Now It’s “Sexting” – Canyon County Prosecutors Charge 15 Year Old Girl

 If you live in the Boise – Nampa – Caldwell, Idaho area you cannot have escaped the most recent news story on another apparent homicide by a fourteen year old Caldwell Middle School student. That’s right friends – 14. As in "how many kids can you stuff in a VW Bug?"  Fourteen – if they are little Middle School kids.

Continue Reading Community Support Grows For 14 Year-Old Kid Charged With Murder – Now He Needs A Good Experienced Lawyer

I love to read other criminal defense lawyer’s perspective on what we do.  So as I am waiting out big winds here in Maui, I just read a great post involving legendary criminal defense lawyer Roy Black and his defense of auto racing superstar Helio Castroneves – who fought the man and won!  Check out the post here. 

Here’s…

Continue Reading Never Give Up – Defense Lawyers Are Counterpunchers

In an article on the Idaho Statesman website today, we learned that the State has cut a deal with a truck driver who killed two people when his big rig bashed into a stopped passenger car. The deal – driver gets a couple MISDEMEANOR counts of vehicular manslaughter. Read the article here.

The driver, Gregory Roberts, killed Boise residents…

Continue Reading Remember How I Said Truck Drivers Kill – This One Gets A Misdemeanor

 In a real estate and mortgage fraud case, a former Boise mortgage loan processor for Zion’s Bank is headed to prison for 18 months following her entry of a guilty plea in federal court.  Barbara Cobos pleaded guilty to defrauding lenders and borrowers both, by a scheme in which the true ownership of real property was disguised and construction advances…

Continue Reading Hard Time Coming For Real Estate And Mortgage Fraud In Idaho Federal Court

It is early on a Sunday morning and I am in my office working.  Sometimes this happens – I wake up and after fifteen or twenty minutes I know that I am not going back to sleep, so off I go to do a little work. Today I am listening to a tape recorded "interview" by a detective.  The suspect is charged…

Continue Reading Top Three Rules If The Detectives Want To Talk To You – Especially In A Sex Crime!

 So it’s time to look back at the past year or so and consider how our clients did when they pushed their cases to trial.  The names have been changed to protect … you know the drill.  Simple pleas without reductions are not included.

State vs KA – Lewd Acts with minor under 15 dismissed, pled guilty to child endangerment.

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A bank can be sued for failing to conduct a reasonable investigation before initiating a criminal complaint against an identity theft victim.  In an unpublished opinion out of New Jersey, the appellate court reversed an order granting summary judgment to the bank, and held that the main issue – whether the bank had acted with malice in calling the cops…

Continue Reading Bank Can Be Sued For Identity Theft Prosecution