by John Olash | Feb 7, 2014 | Criminal Defense
Virginia lawyer who advised client to delete Facebook posts gets a five year bar suspension and losses over $500,000.00. The lawyer represented a man whose wife died in a motor vehicle accident. A commercial vehicle (cement truck) crossed the centerline and crashed...
by John Olash | Feb 6, 2014 | Criminal Defense
The Grand Jury was originally designed to protect the public from overzealous and unwarranted prosecutions. Unfortunately, the Grand Jury has morphed from a public shield to a prosecution sword. While the Grand Jury by design is an ‘independent body,’ in...
by John Olash | Feb 4, 2014 | Criminal Defense
18 U.S.C. § 371 states: If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States or to defraud the United States, or any agency therein any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the...
by John Olash | Feb 4, 2014 | Criminal Defense
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is advocating lowering the legal limit for drunk driving from .08 to .05 blood alcohol content in all states. The NTSB claims a third of US traffic deaths are related to alcohol highway fatalities. At a...
by John Olash | Feb 4, 2014 | Criminal Defense
Under Qualified Immunity Doctrine public officers and employees are shielded from liability for negligent performance of discretionary acts in good faith and within the scope of their authority. Discretionary acts involves the exercise of discretion and judgment or...