http://www.myarizonadefenselawyer.com Arizona Criminal Defense Lawyers Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:45:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Very long and interesting article in the Tuscon Citizen about the unitended consequenses of the 2007 law that heavily penalized employers who hired illegal immigrants. The net result is a booming cash economy for these workers, and ultimately less tax revenue and workplace oversight by the state and federal governments. The ... http://www.myarizonadefenselawyer.com/2008/12/identity-theft-fraud-crackdowns-a-boon-for-arizona-underground-economy/ Police officers in Mesa, AZ are among the latest law enforcement agencies to test the deployment of automatic license plate scanners to detect stolen cars, and other vehicles and drivers with legal issues. The system they are using is called the mobile plate hunter. These license plate scanners automatically photograph, store ... http://www.myarizonadefenselawyer.com/2008/10/arizona-police-license-plate-scanner-evaluations/ Newspapers love to write about DUI cases, laws, and procedural issues. Apparently people enjoy these stories, and they seem to show up in batches, often with local law enforcement DUI stats input such as in Payson/Gila County and Tuscon/University of Arizona. There may be some value in the warnings against the ... http://www.myarizonadefenselawyer.com/2008/09/dui-laws-make-good-news-stories/ A controversial new program by the Arizona Department of Public Safety is now underway, where 100 mobile photo vans and fixed cameras are automatically scanning for speeders, and issuing tickets through the mail. In a concession to critics, traffic tickets issued by these automated systems will not be subject to points ... http://www.myarizonadefenselawyer.com/2008/09/photo-vans-on-the-road-in-arizona-looking-for-speeders/ In an important case for DUI defense lawyers, a judge in Arizona ruled that the manufacturers of the Intoxilyzer 8000 breath test machine must turn over the systems source code to defense attorneys.  The results code have a significant impact on possibly hundreds pending cases where this evidence is used. Source ... http://www.myarizonadefenselawyer.com/2008/09/arizona-breathalyzer-source-code/ Already considered to be among the toughest in the nation, Arizona's drunk driving penalties get even tougher with new legislation aimed at reducing judicial discretion in sentencing. Under the new law which goes into effect on 9/26/2008, any first offense DUI offender who take a breathalyzer and registers about a ... http://www.myarizonadefenselawyer.com/2008/09/arizona-dui-laws-get-even-tougher/ The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office announced another raid on a local business with suspected employees using fraudulent identities to enable them to work. The arrests happened at a candle making company, and resulted in 65 arrests total, 23 of which were felony identity theft charges. As noted previously, identity theft and ... http://www.myarizonadefenselawyer.com/2008/09/more-arizona-identity-theft-charges/ The man behind the web site thedirty.com (formerly dirtyscottsdale.com), Hooman Karamian, a web site dedicated to posting pictures of drunk and rowdy locals has plead guilty to an Extreme DUI charge in Scottsdale, AZ city court. He was arrested in January and charged with extreme DUI and reckless driving. His ... http://www.myarizonadefenselawyer.com/2008/09/arizona-extreme-dui-charge/ Workers at a Tuscon restaurant were sentenced to time served in jail time for criminal impersonation. They are also in the process of being deported for using fraudulent social security cards to secure their employment. There were at least 11 employees at the Panda Express that were using social security cards ... http://www.myarizonadefenselawyer.com/2008/09/criminal-impersonation-charges-in-arizona/ In May, Arizona created a Violent Criminal Apprehension Team to work on tracking down fugitives, a backlog of nearly 60,000 outstanding felony warrants statewide. The VCAT is credited with more than 230 fugitive warrant arrests in Maricopa County since May. The Department of Public Safety is launching a searchable public database ... http://www.myarizonadefenselawyer.com/2008/08/arizona-hunting-warrants/