by Gabriel Quinnan | Mar 17, 2020 | Community, Criminal Defense, Other Legal Issues
Notice: Court Dates Postponed Due To Coronavirus Please be aware that the Sonoma County criminal justice system is currently operating at a severely reduced capacity due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. As of this writing, all out-of-custody time-waived matters...
by Gabriel Quinnan | Mar 10, 2020 | Other Legal Issues
Is Filming Or Recording The Police Legal? Until the smartphone era, recordings of police encounters were few and far between. Aside from the occasional camcorder footage that might show up on a local news broadcast, video recordings of police interactions with the...
by Gabriel Quinnan | Jan 28, 2020 | Other Legal Issues
Yes, A Citizen’s Arrest Is A Real Thing Every now and again on TV and in the movies, you’ll see a character (who is not a police officer) witness a crime and make a “citizen’s arrest.” A citizen’s arrest is an arrest made by a citizen who has no official arrest...
by Gabriel Quinnan | Nov 12, 2019 | Other Legal Issues
Can A California Governor’s Pardon Restore Your Gun Rights? If you are convicted of a felony in California, you lose certain rights as a citizen. One of those rights is gun ownership. This means that you lose the right to own or purchase a gun for the rest of...
by Gabriel Quinnan | May 9, 2017 | Other Legal Issues
In California, there are very limited ways to clear your criminal record. Unfortunately, public policy favors punishing offenders for the rest of their lives by imposing the ongoing stigma of a criminal conviction. One bad decision, and you could be denied housing, a...
by Gabriel Quinnan | Oct 10, 2014 | Other Legal Issues
So, I recently learned that National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is presenting “Of Two Minds”, a film about bipolar disorder. This got me thinking about the mental health resources, or lack thereof, in the criminal justice system. The fact is, our...
