Category: General Topics

Being arrested can be overwhelming, but be sure to remain calm and follow certain steps to protect your rights. The first things you do can affect the outcome of your case. Summit Defense Criminal Lawyers helps you understand what to do in this situation. Whether it’s knowing your legal rights...

When state law enforcement suspects someone of a crime and decides to arrest them, they may attempt to resist. But is resisting arrest a felony? In general, yes, it is a crime to suppress an arrest. Resisting an arrest is a form of obstruction of justice, a serious offense. The...

When you're arrested and taken to jail, one of the first things you might wonder is what happens to your personal belongings. Summit Defense Criminal Lawyers helps people understand the process of how possessions are handled when you're detained. While the main focus is on the legal consequences, your financial obligations, personal...

White-collar crimes, or business crimes, are one of the many categories of crime that we defend at Summit Defense. The FBI characterizes white-collar crime as crimes committed by business and government professionals. The motivation behind these crimes is financial, specifically to obtain or avoid losing money, property, or services or...

The existence of private prisons is a highly debated subject in the U.S. today. And while we are not going to get into the specifics of the debate, we did want to provide more insight into the presence of private prisons around the country. To do that, we conducted research...

Major sentencing disparities can occur in different Bay Area Counties. What a judge sentences an individual to in one county could be vastly different than from what a judge sentences an individual to in another county. The differences in sentencing have a vast monetary effect on both county and California...