San Diego Criminal Defense News

The Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department are seeing a rising number of promotions of allegedly bogus treatments and cures for COVID-19, which they charge are in certain cases pushed directly by doctors and other licensed health care professionals. The FTC...

A former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer who was caught trying to smuggle a Mexican citizen into the United States has been sentenced to 18 months of home detention. Carlos Curiel Quezada, a 10-year veteran of LAPD, and his girlfriend, 31-year-old...

A U.S. Marine was sentenced this week to work furlough and probation after setting multiple fires inside a Gaslamp Quarter restaurant last year. Lance Corporal Austin Kokin, 21, pleaded guilty in January to felony arson after setting multiple fires at Blue Point...

Patrick Griffin, a San Diego trial attorney, whose client, a San Diego doctor Jennings Staley was charged with fraud for hailing hydroxychloroquine as a ‘miracle cure’ for COVID-19, claimed government hypocrisy, directly citing President Donald Trump’s prime time...

Patrick Griffin, a lawyer representing Dr. Jennings Ryan Staley of California, who has been charged with fraud, said his client truly believed he was helping people during a crisis, and that it’s unfair to prosecute him. According to The New York Times article,...

San Diego’s criminal defense attorney, Patrick Griffin, is trying to set the record straight for his client, Dr. Jennings Ryan Staley of Skinny Beach Med Spa in Carmel Valley, who has been charged with fraud over allegedly selling “cures” for COVID-19. As 10News...

Some people think that sex crime is synonymous with sexual assault. In reality, sex crime is a much broader term and extends far beyond the limits of what would be considered sexual assault. Below are a few examples of crimes that fall under the sex crimes and...

Below is a list of the primary detention centers in the San Diego area and brief descriptions of their services. If you were recently convicted of a crime and need to review your options for post-conviction services, read on to find out how Griffin Law can help....

When it comes to criminal law, no other terms are misused more by the public than Assault and Battery. To the uninformed person, it is likely that the term’s definitions seem interchangeable, but that could not be further from the truth. The difference between assault...

If you’ve been arrested, especially for the first time, there are many unknowns to face. For one, how does bail work? The bail process is commonly misunderstood and can be challenging to navigate without strong legal counsel. For those with close family or friends...