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In King County, Washington, The Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program identifies people arrested for low-level drug or prostitution offenses and diverts them away from the criminal justice system and into community-based services. This helps those arrested to make things right and get back on their feet, and reserves expensive criminal justice system resources for more serious cases. ball law firm, orange county lawyer

President Obama proposed a critical expansion of pretrial diversion programs in his budget blueprint for fiscal year 2016. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced last month that it is making an initial $75 million investment in the Safety and Justice Challenge, a multi-year initiative that seeks to address over-incarceration by changing the way Americans think about and use jails. This will support more local innovations—with judges, prosecutors, defense counsel, law enforcement, corrections officers, service providers, and community members working together. lawyers in irvine ca, criminal law lawyers

That’s when a judge agreed to hear his motion to reduce his bail amount. Bob Leonard appeared before a judge in Allen County for the first time Wednesday morning. orange county dui attorneys, dui attorney orange county ca Bob Leonard is accused, along with his brother Mark, Monserrate Shirley and Gary Thompson of setting the explosion at Richmond Hill in November 2012 that killed Dion and Jennifer Longworth and damaged or destroyed more than 80 homes. drunk driving defense lawyers

Bob Leonard’s hearing lasted 13 minutes. Judge Frances Gull was scheduled to address potentially up to 16 different motions that have been filed in the case. Rather than address those Wednesday, Judge Gull set aside three days in September for hearing on all those motions, including Bob Leonard’s request to reduce his bail amount. That’s something prosecutors have said they aren’t sure will happen at that point. top attorneys, arrests in orange county