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A Tale of Two Lawyers

By Steven Rodriguez

Recently I blogged about my nephew’s frightening experience with the court system. A couple of beers with his high school friends before going off to college turned into a nightmare when he was stopped for DUI by a no-nonsense Virginia cop. (See our Oct. 10 post.) My 18-year-old nephew was lucky. His folks hired an excellent attorney and he followed the man’s advice. My nephew was given a year’s probation and the opportunity to walk away with no criminal record. But he could just as easily be spending his first semester of college behind bars. Given today’s volatile economy, no one wants to spend more money than they need too. My sister’s careful eye on the family budget could have turned my nephew’s brush with the law into a tragic, life-changing event...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on October 15, 2008 (boomark / email).