Gordon Thompson
Those suffering from serious mental illness and/or developmental disabilities and charged with a criminal offense may be eligible to participate in mental-health court, an intensive mental health treatment program, in exchange for dismissal of those criminal charges. This allows for intervention and treatment to assist the mentally ill instead of a criminal record, jail time,…
Following legislation enacted this past May, and signed into law by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, the two new Arizona Supreme Court Justice positions created by that legislation have been filled by Governor Ducey, changing the five-seat panel to a seven-seat panel. Republicans Andrew Gould, currently an Arizona Court of Appeals Justice, and John…
The Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety will hold press conferences in Phoenix and Tucson tomorrow to announce the start of the 2016 Holiday DUI Enforcement campaign. The current 2016 schedule with dates and locations is pictured above. Gordon Thompson For more information about Arizona dui and criminal law issues please contact Gordon…
More than a thousand signatures have been submitted to the Presidents of Arizona Community Colleges and Public Universities to plead on behalf of Arizona DACA students. The future of DACA (or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which allows undocumented immigrant college or university students with no serious criminal history a 2-year waiver from deportation) is…
Fox 10 Phoenix reporter John Hook will release the results of recent DNA testing in the unsolved 1978 Scottsdale, Arizona murder of actor Bob Crane, star of a popular TV program from the 1960’s called Hogan’s Heroes. A friend of Crane’s, John Henry Carpenter, was suspected of the crime after the discovery of illicit…
Despite having more officers on the roads this past Halloween weekend, holiday DUI arrests are again down from past years according to preliminary results from the Arizona Office of Highway Safety. Arrests in 2015 reached 320, down for 2016 by nearly 100 arrests, to 209. While DUI arrests are down, aggressive driving citations rose…
The Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) announced yesterday they’ve made an addition to the list of time and money-saving services which customers can handle themselves online via ServiceArizona.com (now at AZ MVD Now). Getting a duplicate driver license or identification card is now as easy as making the application online, and printing…
For the second time, current Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has requested United States District Court Judge G. Murray Snow recuse himself as judge from the ongoing Melendres, et.al. v. Arpaio, et.al. civil class action racial profiling case. Arpaio and his Washington, DC-based legal team list the judge’s communicating with the independent monitor he appointed…
Following the announcement last week that federal prosecutors planned to press a criminal contempt-of-court charge against current Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, this week a misdemeanor criminal contempt charge was officially filed in United States District Court. A misdemeanor charge will not prevent Arpaio from continuing to hold his current office, and though subject to…
If you have been cited for Driving on a Suspended License (DOSL) in Arizona where the suspension was issued by a court for non-payment of a civil traffic fine, and you have reinstated your Arizona driver license (meaning, at a minimum, you paid a reinstatement fee to the Arizona Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Division…