Pleasanton Criminal Defense Law Blog

"Big" is a relative term, of course, which can only be fleshed out in reference to a specific matter through comparison with something else in the same genre.

Consider health care fraud for a moment, which is a matter we impliedly underscored in a June 9 blog entry alluding to the "heightened climate of white crime scrutiny" that has been patently notable across the country in recent years.

There's a truth disruption at work regarding the reality of juvenile crime in California and its link with the state's progressively increasing immigrant and minority population, and it's emanating from a singular source that should be far more cautious and accurate in its appraisals.

That font of disinformation and even fomented hysteria is the U.S. House of Representatives, say authors of a recent report closely focused on the correlation between juvenile crime and comparatively diversified state populations.

There will be no dearth of people paying close attention to a case focused upon cellphones and privacy in the United States Supreme Court's upcoming autumn term.

Privacy rights are, of course, a big deal in a democracy, especially in an ever-evolving society in which vast technological inroads have made it progressively easier for criminal law authorities to gain access to huge amounts of data via new platforms.

"Almost without exception," states a recent NPR criminal law-focused article, "police videos are controlled by the law enforcement agencies that created them."

And therein lies the rub, say commentators who point to police custody over these relatively new, unquestionably potent and sometimes controversial tools that are used liberally by police departments across California and the rest of the country.