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In Atlanta area criminal defense related news as I return from Washington and then San Diego, Former Clayton County financial advisor and MARTA board member identified as Edmund J. Wall pleaded no contest to charges he had sex in a Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport bathroom. I wonder if he has a good criminal defense attorney? In fact, I wonder if he will need a good Washington divorce lawyer if he is married, when she hears about this nice public scandal, for that matter. Or perhaps she has a better Washington divorce lawyer than him, in which case he is really screwed I would think. Wall, who pleaded no contest, was sentenced to 12 months of probation, 64 hours of community service and a $500 fine. He also entered the first offenders program, which if he successfully completes all the terms of his sentencing and is not charged with anything else for the next year it will not appear on his record. I guess since no injury was involved, this is about right. Police found wall and Michael Reid Pettry according to Clayton County Magistrate Court records March 13, 2007 in a restroom outside of one of the airport restaurants engaging in oral intercourse. By the way if you are in georgia and need a good San Diego criminal attorney then may I suggest the law offices listed here as he is simply one of the better such San Diego divorce plus domestic violence lawyer as well as San Diego criminal attorney around overall. you will be able to find in the greater Atlanta area. Pettry a resident of Indianapolis pleaded no contest in February and was also sentenced to 64 hours of community service, a $500 dollar fine and 12 months of probation according to reports.

Just got back from San Jose and wanted to post some relevent criminal and business news:A Los Angeles businessman identified as George Kalta age 40 pleaded guilty to a criminal conspiracy charge in federal court. The charge stems from a 2006 incident where he admitted to paying $50,000 to a private investigator identified as Anthony Pellicano to illegally wiretap a woman. The woman that Kalta is accused of wiretapping is a woman that had filed sexual assault charges against him. he had better have a good attorney. Kalta has been sentenced to three years of probation and fined $5,000 for hiring the private investigator to do the wiretap. By the way if you need a good San Jose Criminal Attorney I suggest this resource.Private investigator Anthony Pellicano was sentenced in a separate case for heading a scheme, to wiretap the phone lines of his rich and famous clients in order to get any useful information, he was also charged with bribing police officers. Pellicano received a 15-year sentence. He is also facing trial in state court on charges of threatening a Los Angeles Times reporter.

Every single one of us is quite aware of the fact that an unexpected accident can happen at any given moment, and it can happen no matter where we are or what we happen to be doing. However, there is one place that most generally we do not think for a second of an accident occurring, and that is when we are in an elevator. It is true that riding in an elevator is as much as 20 times safer for a person than riding on an escalator can be, and there are as many as 20 times more elevators than there are escalators, but for individuals that are riding in elevators there are only 1/3 more accidents.

I am headling to Chicago soon but I wanted to get some blogging in. Actually I should be able to blog while I am there too.   According to the Commerce City Police they have arrested a man suspected of as many as eight area robberies. The man that was arrested on the alleged charges has been identified as 26 year old Benjamin Foos and this comes after a ten day investigation. He will need a good Personal Attorney.

 Benjamin Foos has been charged in the robberies he is suspected of with three counts of aggravated robbery (intent to cause Injury perhaps), one count of menacing, along with five counts of criminal attempt to commit aggravated robbery according to police. The alleged robberies that Foos is charged with included the use of a weapon.

 By the way if you live in Chicago or elsewhere in Illinois outside of the windy city and need a highly respected and battle tested Chicago Personal Injury Attorney then you should take a look at Budin Law offices as he is a first rate Chicago Personal Injury Attorney. You can call him for a personal consultation.

According to police spokes person Detective Mike Sunders, during four of the robberies the 26 year old Foos is alleged to have used a black semi-automatic handgun or a silver handgun. Sunders also stated that Foos is suspected of eight robberies that occurred in Adams County, Commerce City, Thornton, and Westminster and will be answering to the charges (or his Attorney will) when he appears in court.

Detective Saunders also stated that Foos is currently at the Adams County Detention Facility.

I just got back to Sacramento and wanted to post some criminal and legal news. The admitted art thief and French citizen Bernard Jean Ternus has been sentenced in a United States District Court in Miami Florida. The United States District Attorney for the Southern District of Florida R. Alexander Acosta was the prosecutor in the case where presiding U.S. District Judge Patricia A. Seitz sentenced Ternus to a total of 62 months in prison, three years supervised release and $200 special assessment, along with an order for restitution. It is not clear if his defense lawyer will appeal the decision or what his defense will be.

This stems from the art theft that Ternus plead guilty to, of an August 5, 2007 armed robbery at the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Nice, France. As a Museum of fine art, during the armed robbery Ternus stole four original paintings; Cliffs Near Dieppe, by Claude Monet, Allegory of Earth and Allegory of Water by Jan Breughel Sr., and The Lanes of Poplars at Moret by Alfred Sisley.

After the theft from August of 2007 through June of 2008 Ternus and his partners met several times with undercover FBI agents and an undercover officer of the French National Police to sell the paintings. Agents were then shown pieces of the art work at a meeting in Spain.  Incidentially if you happen to reside in Sacramento and you need a qualified a good Sacramento criminal defense lawyer then I highly recommend the Law Offices of Patricia Tilley. She is a first rate criminal defense lawyer to be sure.

After the arrest of Ternus the four pieces of pricelss artwork was found in a van in Marseilles France. Ternus has a long criminal history dating as far back as 1966 and including a recent fraud charge for visa fraud to obtain a United States visa. He went in front of U.S. District Court Judge Cecilia A. Altonaga in Miami as his lawyer was unable to get him released.

I just got back from San Francisco injury free but i wanted to share this interesting story with you, with some personal interest I suppose since I am so adamently a safety-first.

According to reports a man arrested in July on the University Maryland in Baltimore campus was on the FBI’s terrorist watch list. Prosecutors have filed criminal charges against Dallas Jermaine Smith age 21 was found with an explosive device on the campus. The charges that have been filed against him are for second degree assault, resisting arrest and possessing a destructive device.

Smyth is being held without bail and an FBI spokesman Special Agent Rich Wolf from the Baltimore field office stated he could not comment on why Smith is being held without bail. It is not known if his personal lawyer is arguing that point or not. By the way if you happen to live in San Francisco and need a great San Francisco personal injury lawyer then I would like to suggest the fine Brady Law Group. This firm can really be of assistance and they are indeed some of the very best San Francisco personal injury lawyer you can find.

 Records that have been filed state that a police officer from the University of Maryland stopped Smith after spotting him acting suspiciously on July 22^nd. When the officer attempted to take Smith’s backpack Smith tried to escape the officer, wrestling between Smith and the officer resulted in Smith trying to obtain the officers weapon.

 The backpack contained a six inch metal pipe and other materials to construct an explosive device.