Pleasanton Criminal Defense Law Blog

We submit in today's blog post that even some people who disagree with the recent ruling of a U.S. federal appellate court regarding warrants and the suppression of evidence can understand the court's reasoning and its rationale for ruling against the government.

In the case before the tribunal, it was uncontested that a criminal suspect was seen tossing a gun out of an apartment window as police were about to enter the abode pursuant to a search warrant. Authorities used that evidence to convict the man on a criminal weapons charge.

Persons who take more than a passing interest in criminal law matters -- as we know our readers in Alameda County and across California do -- are certainly aware that law enforcers now deem white collar crime to be a focal point of highest concern.

We stressed that in a recent blog post, noting in our June 9 entry that "white collar probes have been on the front burner for state and federal agents and task forces over the past several years." We additionally stated therein that heightened regulatory and enforcement scrutiny, coupled with related probes aimed at convictions and harsh penalties in this singular area of law, "will likely continue unabated" in the future.

It wasn't exactly as though U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had to be corralled and cajoled unmercifully to utter a comment that a large American demographic has been impatiently waiting to hear for months.

It certainly might have seemed like that, though, to a broad swath of the public, which myriad and broad-based sources indicate has strongly opposed many of the AG's continued tough-on-crime pronouncements and related calls of seemingly unbridled support for police policies and actions across the country.

A Russian man who “directed and supervised” the operations of a popular bitcoin exchange known as BTC-E has been indicted on a range of charges. He was arrested recently in Greece.

The federal indictment, which was just unsealed in California, claims that BTC-E was the nexus for several criminal enterprises. The site allegedly facilitated ransomware, identity theft, drug trafficking, money laundering and public corruption, among others. The indictment also claims the director had co-conspirators.