Attorney Cocis Quoted Regarding Local Judge Sean Lafferty in Daily Journal

With extensive experience in the legal community, Judge Sean Lafferty is known as a good judge who makes himself available to attorneys. He began his career as a career prosecutor and has always had a passion for law, once thinking he would become a police officer. His attention to detail and manner of professionalism that…

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Does Using a Wooden Spoon to Spank Your Child Constitute Criminal “Child Abuse”?

Scenario Suppose that the parents of a twelve-year old girl spanked her on her backside with a wooden spoon, and that the spanking was done with enough force to produce visible bruises. Question Does the parent’s use of a wooden spoon to spank the girl rise to the level of criminal “child abuse” as defined…

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Arrested for Burglary? Temecula, Lake Elsinore, Menifee Defense Attorney

When police investigate a suspected burglary, they carefully comb the scene for evidence that a suspect might have left behind. In extreme cases, suspects might leave themselves behind (as with this recent alleged break-in involving a suspect who fell asleep on the victim’s couch). But more often, the evidence is subtle. It can also remain…

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The Implications of Legalizing Marijuana Possession in California

According to the LA Times, it is virtually certain that Californians will vote on a ballot initiative that will make marijuana possession for recreational purposes legal. If the ballot initiative passes, California will join a handful of other states such as Colorado, where pot is legal according to state law but still illegal according to…

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Criminal Threats and The Internet: Are Times Changing?

The Internet has changed the world in big, important ways. It’s allowed people from different countries and cultures to exchange ideas in ways that would never before have been possible, and it’s altered the way social movements, politics, and even big business works in the modern age. It has, in a real sense, revolutionized how…

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Representation in Cases Involving Criminal Threats

Uttering criminal threats in California can have serious legal repercussions. The state of California handles criminal threats as either a misdemeanor or felony. But what constitutes a criminal threat? California Penal Code Section 422, reveals that simply telling someone you will kill them (or cause bodily harm) is not enough to constitute a criminal threat….

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What is Drug Transportation? Temecula, Murrieta, Lake Elsinore Criminal Attorney

Few areas of the law have so many crimes and violations associated with them that an entire, separate court system has been set up to deal with them; illicit drugs is one of those areas. Selling drugs is a crime, manufacturing drugs is a crime, and just possessing drugs is a crime. One particular crime…