San Jose Criminal Defense Law Blog

The young man accused of invasion of privacy and a hate crime for recording the sexual activity of his gay college roommate has been convicted by a jury.  The man could face up to 10 years in prison for the crimes. He could also face deportation as he was born in India and in the U.S. on a green card. The man was offered a plea deal that would have included probation, community service and protection from deportation for pleading guilty to the crimes, but he refused to accept it. His defense team plans to appeal.

The man was accused of recording via webcam sexual encounters that his roommate had with a man in their shared room. He shared the video with others and talked about it on Twitter. His roommate found out about the intrusion and soon after committed suicide. The young man wasn't charged with causing his roommate's death, but his actions were considered to be hate speech, bullying and intimidation by the prosecution.

As discussed on other posts, a man had his conviction for the sexual assault of a 6-month-old child voided by an appeals court in his state, and the man returned home recently after serving 9 years of his 60-year sentence.

The man, however, will face a new trial by the prosecutor in his town. The prosecutor still believes that the man caused the baby's death through sexual assault even though there is strong evidence that the baby actually suffered from a bleeding disorder and died from natural causes.

The man has always said he was innocent. His conviction was voided because the appeals court thought that a reasonable jury may not have decided to convict if they had been provided with this medical evidence at the time. The man's defense attorney at the time had not attempted to refute the medical evidence of the prosecution.

The former LAPD detective who was on trial for a 1986 cold case murder was found guilty by a California jury last week. The former detective was convicted of the murder of a woman who was married to her former boyfriend. The prosecution portrayed her as a woman who was enraged after being jilted by her former lover.

The detective had built a successful career as an art theft and fraud detective. She had a husband and an adopted daughter. Her defense attorney tried to create a parallel story for the murder, saying that the husband committed the murder and that he was the one who was actually still interested in the police officer at the time of the murder, not the other way around. The jury ultimately believed the prosecution's version.

As discussed in the previous post, an ongoing investigation by ProPublica and other news organizations has uncovered serious flaws in the death investigation system in the U.S. The most difficult death investigations often involve the unexpected deaths of children.

Children's bodies are different than adults and many coroners and medical examiners might not have the training to know how a child's body looks in death or what diseases a child may suffer from that cause bruising and bleeding. A coroner who concludes without question that a bleeding and bruised child was abused may be very wrong.

This is because children can suffer from a number of different natural conditions that lead to bruising and bleeding. The signs and symptoms of these diseases may look like abuse to even the most skilled doctor. This doctor would know, however, to examine blood tests before reaching conclusions.

ProPublica, along with other news organizations, has been conducting an ongoing investigation into the death investigation system in the U.S. and has discovered that it contains many flaws. These flaws lead to faulty conclusions during autopsies in unexpected deaths and can lead to false sexual assault, murder and child abuse allegations as well as wrongful convictions.

The unexpected deaths of children are among the trickiest and most emotionally charged investigations. This blog covered the case of a man who was convicted of sexually assaulting a 6-month-old in his care. The child died soon after he was the last to be alone with her.

The man, however, denied hurting the child and said she had showed signs of deteriorating health for days. His conviction was voided by an appeals court that said his defense attorney had not adequately challenged the prosecution's expert medical testimony that had concluded sexual abuse had occurred.

A mandatory installment of ignition interlock devices for people convicted of DUIs, which was once merely a pilot program in California, may be implemented across the nation. Many states have considered a similar move, as the federal government begins to express support for giving states money in exchange for implementing the program.

Under the program, people convicted of DUIs who had high blood alcohol content would have to have a device installed in the car that would require the person to take a breathalyzer test before starting the car.

The program has been opposed by a number of associations on behalf of restaurants and liquor establishments, citing that the program would treat people who were just a drop over the legal limit and repeat offenders equally.

As discussed in the previous two posts, the murder trial has begun in the case of the ex-LAPD detective who has been accused of killing the wife of an ex-boyfriend in 1986. The crime happened in Los Angeles in the late 80s when law enforcement was overwhelmed with the numbers of homicides at the time.

Initially, the lead detective theorized that the crime was done by burglars who had been targeting the area because some electronic equipment had been stacked by the door and the woman's BMW was stolen.

Later, law enforcement officers took up the case again and a break came when they discovered that the DNA showed that the DNA in the saliva meant that a woman had bit the victim not a man. At the time of the murder, the victim's father had told police that the defendant had threatened his daughter and she was afraid of her.

As discussed in the previous post, a former LAPD detective is currently on trial for a 1986 cold-case murder. Prosecutors say that a DNA sample taken from her matches the DNA in a saliva sample taken in 1986 on a bite wound on the victim and stored for more than two decades.

The case has gained international attention because of its strange circumstances, including the fact that a respected police officer promoted over the years to an art theft detective position and with a husband and child has been accused of a brutal crime committed years ago.

The case is also interesting because the saliva was collected at the scene before DNA analysis was available to prosecute violent crimes. It was saved on the cusp of that possibility and not actually used to charge anyone with murder until more than 20 years had gone by.