Baldani Law Group Blog

In May of 2008, William Jerry Hadden and his son Jamey Hadden — owners of two Cardinal Valley apartment complexes — were charged with harboring 60 illegal immigrants in KY and “encouraging” them to stay in the United States. The federal government was using the harboring law in such a way as to twist its

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This week the team at Baldani Law Group scored a huge victory in the case of Commonwealth vs. Beasley. Our client — a whip-smart college student — was involved in a tragic accident in 2011 where his best friend was killed after he had lost control of his car. There was no sign of intoxication

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So I came across an interesting idea that someone has for DUI checkpoints. At these checkpoints, officers will ask you to roll down the window and get your license, registration, and insurance, and ask you if you’ve been drinking. Really what they do are trying to assess if you’re drunk, if they can smell marijuana,

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We have a policing problem in America. At heart, it’s not a problem unique to the police, or to America. Indeed, as Juvenal’s quote above indicates, it’s a problem the Romans were well aware of, too. Thanks to a slew of high-profile cases, much of the mainstream is becoming aware of policing issues that those

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A relatively recent trend in sentencing is using data-driven risk assessment tools to determine who is “high risk” to reoffend and who is not, and to use that information in guiding sentencing: if someone is determined to be “low risk,” the likelihood of them receiving a lenient sentence from the judge would be greater than

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