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If by "reopen the case" you mean starting up investigation and possible prosecution of Nicole, that would not violate the Sixth Amendment. But is still the case that the decision is up the DA. It's not up to the public to prosecute her nor may they force the DA to do so. The public often puts...

It's not a violation of the Sixth Amendment as that only applies to the government seeking to restrain the accused persons choice of attorney. It violates no ethical rule for lawyers, but it does go against the spirit of the laws and ethics rules we have. And it's a big waste of taxpayer money...

One way to really find out how much your company values you is to find another job that pays at least competively with what these new employees are getting paid and then tell the company that if it wants to keep you, it needs to at least match that other offer. This involves risk, because if...

They are not applied like they would in Colorado District Court or in a non small claims proceeding in County Court. The Colorado Small Claims Court Rules simply provide in Rule 513: The hearing of all cases shall be informal, the object being to dispense justice promptly and economically...

A good place to start your search would be the attorney search feature of the Minnesota Bar Association. You can search by area of practice and get a list of the lawyers practicing in that area. The list won't rank the quality of the attorneys, but at least you'll get information on which...

Show a yellow pages book to a milennial and see the confused look on their faces. :D That would be filled with a lot of old information that's no longer good. Law firms come, go, and change all the time, and it's not uncommon for lawyers to change firms one or more times during a career. That...

Hardly. I have a very clear picture of the Trump presidency. Many of his supporters overlook the problems of his presidency and some seem to revere him close to something like God. I'm not one of them and IMO Trump was a terrible president who, while he had some successes, overall did more harm...

Martha Stewart isn't hurting for money. She hired lawyers to represent her at her trial, and her attorneys succeeded in getting the judge to drop the most serious charges against her before trial. She got a fair trial and a jury convicted her. She has the money to hire an attorney to seek...

No, not in Colorado (or most other states). You'd need to persuade the DA to reopen the case. That's usually going to take coming up with new evidence that the DA does not already have. DAs in Colorado don't close murder cases due to costs like they do for some minor offenses. The primary reason...

The odd thing is that crimes committed with guns often don't get a huge payoff, certainly not enough to be worth the kind of prison sentence armed robbery or murder will get them. The smart crooks today use e-mail, text messages, phones, and snail mail to pull off scams to the unwary. They make...

The smart ones do obey the tax law. Sure, it means they give a slice of their ill gotten gains to the IRS, but it also eliminates the prospect of prison for evading tax. As Al Capone famously found out, he was able to keep the FBI from getting enough evidence to charge him with a crime, but the...

If she gets any of that pension after conviction. Between restitution orders, fines, and IRS tax levies, there might not be anything left for her to use from her pension. While pensions are protected from attachment for most debts, they may be attached for criminal fines, criminal restitution...

As a first offense, and considering that she's likely going to enter into a plea agreement for the charges (her cooperation suggests she doesn't dispute she took the money) my prediction is she won't get a sentence anywhere close to 142 years. It'll be a long sentence, but it may provide her a...

That's one possibility, though in that case I would expect the fund management firm to issue a 1099-INT for it.

Exactly what kind of investment is it and what kind of company is paying it? It's very likely that the interest is indeed taxable but I don't have a clear idea of what this investment is.

Bear in mind, though that $600K in 1992 would have the same buying power today after inflation of $1.3 million dollars. Not a lot of the public in 1992 died with over $600k after deducting the marriage deduction (if married at the time of death) gifts to charitable institutions, etc. With good...

Color and B&W photos are not the same. People see things differently in color than B&W. Some details may be easier to see in one format or the other. You need to provide to the other copies of exactly what you intend to offer as evidence. If you don't, then at least in my state (which is not CA)...

What do you mean by an "estate deed"? Do you simply mean that you were added to the deed as an owner of the house or is there more to it than that? And how is the house titled: tenants in common or joint tenants with a right of survivorship? Divorce does not change the basis in property...

The piece, which is an advatorial, is generally correct about what Rev. Rul. 2023-2 says, but makes it seem like a much bigger deal than it is. I'll first note that the ruling is not the result of a recent significant change in the view of IRS counsel. When I was an attorney at IRS counsel that...

Unfortunately a pretty accurate observation. It also didn't take me long to see that many of the 1Ls were simply not interested in doing the hard needed to become a truly good attorney. About one-third of the 1Ls in my class didn't make it back for the second year, and for most the reason they...