The criminal defense attorneys at Black & Askerov assist both petitioners and respondents in protection order cases in Seattle and other Washington communities. While there are several types of protection orders under Washington law, three of the most common include: Domestic Violence Protection Orders, Anti-Harassment Orders, and Sexual Assault Protection Orders. Please know that a [...]
Defendants in Seattle and across Washington State can get charged with a host of federal crimes. Some of the more common, though, include: drug offenses, fraud (mail fraud, wire fraud, and bank fraud), conspiracy, firearm offenses, and immigration-related offenses. While the penalties for these federal crimes are indeed harsh, our criminal defense lawyers have the [...]
The FBI website tells us that white-collar crimes are synonymous with the full range of frauds committed by business and government professionals. The crimes are often carried out with deceit, concealment, or violation of trust. The driving force behind the commission of white collar crimes is financial gain. Four of the more common white-collar crimes [...]
Defendants can face many different drug crime charges in Washington State, from trafficking to possession and conspiracy. The criminal defense attorneys at Black Law have been defending people on drug charges since 2001. During this time, they can attest to the wide range of drug crime charges, but they’ve also seen – through experience – [...]
The Fourth Amendment has been under attack during the last few decades, as the Supreme Court of the United States has sanctioned exception after exception to the warrant requirement. In United States v. Leon, the Supreme Court created the “good faith” exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. Under the good faith exception, evidence seized [...]
In 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Padilla v. Kentucky, that a criminal defense attorney’s failure to advise a non-citizen client of the immigration consequences of a criminal conviction amounts to ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The change in law effected by Padilla [...]
Almost every year, the Washington State Legislature makes changes to the Driving Under the Influence (“DUI”) statutes to make the consequences of a DUI even more severe. Currently, a first-time DUI conviction results in a mandatory one-day jail sentence (the judge has discretion to impose a sentence of up to 364 in jail) and five [...]
