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DUI Cop Lisa Steed and the Culture of Corruption
I literally just got off the phone for a DUI driver license hearing for one of my clients where disgraced Utah Highway Patrol trooper Lisa Steed was the arresting officer. For those of you that don’t...
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The Science of Persuasion
Aesop might have made a good lawyer if he had been born in a different century. In fact, he was probably a better lawyer than most present-day lawyers are. Lawyers are sometimes identified as people...
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Utah DUI and Your Driver License: The Saga Continues
In a previous post we talked about the Driver License Division taking away your license after you receive a DUI in Utah and what to do about it. Just to make it more difficult, they change the laws...
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How to Get A Lawyer
HOW TO GET A LAWYER I knew a lawyer that would show up to court in jeans and a turtle-neck, plead his client guilty to whatever crime he happened to be charged with, collect his $5000 or $10,000 for...
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How long will you go to jail or prison?
If you are accused of a crime, there is a chance that you will go to jail. Everyone wants to win their case and we’ve won more than our share of cases at trial or by dismissal. But there is sometimes...
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Utah Criminal Defense Attorneys: A Paralegal’s Perpective
Note: This contribution is from the paralegal staff at Sharifi & Baron PLLC Utah Criminal Defense Attorneys: What I Think They Do When I tell people I work for a criminal defense attorney’s...
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How to Get a Terrible Utah DUI Attorney
Bad Utah DUI Attorneys There seems to be a lot of blogs talking about how to get good Utah DUI attorneys and most of them point the finger back to the DUI attorney writing the blog. So instead of...
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Salt Lake County Jail: How to Get Your Loved Ones Out
Salt Lake County Jail: The Arrest If a loved one is being held at the jail, it means he was arrested for a crime or crimes that the police believe them to have committed. The police either had an...
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Criminal Defense Attorney Salt Lake City
Criminal Defense Attorney Salt Lake City: The Good I remember being at a doctor’s office with a broken wrist and the doctor telling me my wrist wasn’t broken. “We looked at the X-Rays and they...
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DUI Checkpoints in Utah
In February 2012, the Utah House of Representatives voted to repeal the law that made DUI checkpoints legal in Utah. Unfortunately, that bill died in the Senate. So you can expect DUI checkpoints in...
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Divorce Attorneys in Utah
Divorce Attorneys in Utah If you remember afternoon television in the 80′s, one of the best shows had to be Divorce Court. It was so humorous and painful that you couldn’t look away. It was a...
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Utah DUI Laws: Top 10 Things You Should Know
1. You have to request a driver’s license hearing within 10 days of getting cited for DUI if you want to keep your license. 2. Your driving privilege will be suspended in Utah even if you don’t have a...
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Denied Social Security Disability Benefits? Hire a Disability Attorney
You’ve Been Denied Social Security Disability Benefits. Now What? Well the first thing is: don’t panic. The Social Security Administration denies upwards of 60 to 70% of the initial...
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Salt Lake City DUI Lawyer
Hiring a Salt Lake City DUI Lawyer Salt Lake City is a unique place. I’ve lived and traveled all over the United States and found that few places have such an eclectic mix of people and...
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What to Expect from a Good Criminal Defense Attorney
Good Criminal Defense Attorneys I was once sitting in court waiting to call my case. My client was charged with a drug offense and I had spent two months working out a deal in which the case would be...
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What to do if your loved one is in deportation proceedings
One of the most common ways that people end up in deportation proceedings is by being arrested for an unrelated crime. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has officers at many Utah jails to...
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Three things you should know if you are charged with domestic violence
1. “Domestic violence” covers tons of things that don’t sound like domestic violence One of the most common complaints from our clients in domestic violence cases is “I wasn’t being violent and this...
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Immigration Lawyers in Utah
Immigration Lawyers in Utah There are few areas of law that are more complex, and frustrating, than immigration law. Many of our clients that are not citizens face horrendous challenges in achieving...
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Eyes Wide Shut: How Eyewitnesses Can Lead to False Convictions
We all want to believe that we know what we see and could testify about it in court. But are we sure? As a Utah criminal attorney, you have to understand the dangers of relying on eyewitness testimony....
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Mass Incarceration: A Form of Racism?
I had an amazing experience this weekend. I was scrolling through the channels at the gym and I came across Michelle Alexander’s speech to the University of Tennessee on her new book The New Jim Crow:...
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