Understanding Arizona’s age of consent laws can protect an individual from being accused of a serious sex crime such as statutory rape. Sex crimes involving underage individuals are penalized harshly in Arizona, with consequences that may include life in prison. It is critical to understand the age of consent, as well as potential exceptions to
Arizona Criminal Laws: Extradition Laws Extradition is something we watch on the news all the time. Famous extradition cases involved various personalities such as Joaquin Guzman, aka El Chapo, considered to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world, extradited from Mexico to the U.S. Another is Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency
Administrative Actions Against Your Professional License in Arizona Just being charged with a crime in Arizona can trigger a tsunami of collateral consequences including suspension or revocation of your professional license or other administrative actions affecting your professional license. When so much is on the line, responding to or defending yourself against an administrative action
Defending Yourself from Felony Charges in Arizona Under state law, any criminal conviction resulting in imprisonment for a year or longer may be described as a felony. Felony convictions are often offenses that include an element of violence and are deemed to be detrimental for the victims and society. Felonies and misdemeanors are classified based
Defending Yourself Against Charges of Domestic Violence (DV) in Arizona Arizona Law defines domestic violence as one of several criminal offenses in which the victim is related to the alleged perpetrator by marriage, former marriage or having resided in the same household. Normally “domestic violence” by itself is NOT a crime. Rather, it is a
