Criminal Defense

It appears rapper MC Hammer won't have to trade his parachute pants for an orange jumpsuit following his arrest at a Dublin shopping center two weeks ago. Charges for resisting an officer in Dublin have been dropped, the musician and dancer tweeted Friday evening. "Thank You to all my friends and supporters. All CHARGES DECLINED. Dropped," he wrote. "Have A…Read More

A federal appeals court reinstated the death sentence Thursday for a San Jose man who killed a teenage employee during a 1979 liquor store robbery, saying the verdict was not affected by shackling that forced defendant Marvin Walker to limp to and from the witness stand. U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong had granted Walker a new trial in 2011,…Read More

The state Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction Thursday of a burglar who was driving down a freeway with his loot when a stolen stove fell off his pickup truck and caused a fatal crash. Cole Wilkins of Long Beach was convicted of first-degree murder on the grounds that he was still fleeing the scene of the burglary when the…Read More