Rizio and Nelson California Law Blog

Drug-Related Homicides

According to the Office of the Attorney General of California, the incarceration rates for drug-related crimes have been steadily on the rise. The last year recorded was 2005, which saw 39 drug-related homicides out of every 100,000 people. Alarming as this is, the high was in 1997, with 53.2 drug-related homicides. The rate had gone down to 31.4 in 2002, but began increasing again in the following...

January Violent Crimes, in the News

LA Now reported on on January 5 about a story that left an 18 year old hospitalized with gunshot wounds. He claimed that two men shot him from a passing car. He wasn’t especially cooperating with the police making it impossible to tell if he had in fact been able to identify the shooter or the passenger in the vehicle. On the same day, a school bus had some windows shot out by someone with a...