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   Brian Kenneth Hicks, the criminal celebrity who is accused of trafficking drugs and leading the famous (or perhaps infamous might be the better word) gang known as the Elite Eights told U.S. District Judge Wiley Y. Daniel he wanted  a brand new attorneys. All in all, he went on to tell the judge that his current attorneys were wasting precious time on motions and wanted to enter in a plea bargain type of agreement. .

   Hicks charged with trafficking thousands of kilos of crack cocaine convinced the judge and when the judge asked the present attorneys, they stated due to representing the client they could not comment.

  Recently the grand jury handed down indictments that charged that the high profile criminal was the leader of the members of drug traffickers as well as conspiring to distribute crack cocaine.

  Attorneys Jonathan Willet and Walter Gerash are the attorneys who are representing him at this time that he asked to have them fired from the job in question. So he will be able to replace them with attorneys who will follow his wishes, as he believes that the prosecution has little evidence in his case according to his statement to the judge. 

   Hicks made no mention of any criminal attorneys that he might replace his current defense attorneys with and only alluded to the fact that his family was going to retain an attorney. Speaking of attorneys,

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   Two other men associated with Hicks are also mentioned in the indictments and are facing charges. They are also believed to have been in his Chevy Tahoe, when a drive by shooting occurred that involved Denver Broncos team member Darrent Williams. Hicks has taken on a high profile in the notorious cocaine underword, much like the fictional Miami based cocanine kingpin Tony Montana in the crime saga ‘Scarface’ starring Al Pacino. 

At a time when most of the major airlines carriers have been scaling back on former freebies such as soft drinks and snacks and making you pay extra for checking in bags, it is nice to know that at least they are adding a few features here and there:  

 It was recently annouced that United Airlines is setting up some of their planes to accommodate passengers who want to use their iPods and iPhones.
In other iPod related news, the iPod dock now includes digital optical audio. More related Tech related News can be found over at Merlins news Blog
According to a report on that cool online technology resource Tech World, The 170iTransport has been created to allow the iPod to act as a component in a top notch audio/video home entertainment system. It has digital audio output connector and component video output, plus analog audio and S-Video outputs. As you probable already know the dock allows permits you to charge the iPod.

    They plan to outfit their international flights with new entertainment systems that are equipped with a 30-pin connector that will attach to the dock connector on the iPod or iPhone.

   The system was developed by Panasonic Avionics and was scheduled for its first use on a flight from Washington D.C. to

   United Airlines plans to have all of their international flights fitted with the new systems within the next two years. This service is planned to be installed in first class and in business class for passengers by the airlines.

The personal TV has approximately a 16-inch screen and with the docking connection it will allow passengers to watch their own programs and movies on a larger screen.

Does Tatup need a lawyer? It looks like he just might. Hawaii native and defensive Linebacker of the Seahawks National Football legue Lofa Tatupu was in a Kirkland, Washington courthouse for a May 10th stop for driving too fast as well not to mention erraticly at about 2 in the morning. He was subsequently charged with a dui.
   According to various online and offline published reports around 2 hours after he was halted by the police dept. he was given a breathalyzer test and was apparently was nearly 2 times over the legal limit.

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    When appearing in the Kirkland Muncipal Court in front of Judge Michael J. Lambo, the National Football league linebacker, didn’t not speak and it seems that his lawyer pleaded not guilty on his behalf.
  In addition, following the hearing his lawyer stated that Tatupu would not be making any statements or taking any questions from reporters.
  There was a non-confirmed date set for a hearing July 7th for the football player to show up and the defensive linebackers training camp for the Seahawks begins July 25th.
   After his arrest the Los Angeles native made a May 13th statement that was released by the team apologizing to family and teammates for his arrest as well as the Seahawk fans.

According to an article reported in the ‘All Headline News’ news network plus other news sources,
former major leaguer Jose Canseco is being sued by his former lawyer.
The apparent reason for this lawsuit is his failure to come up with unpaid legal fees. It seems that
attorney Robert Saunooke has filed the lawsuit against the former slugger and admitted steroid abuser in Broward County Circuit Court
on May 30 for non-payment legal fees for about five years of work. “Canseco set up fraudulent corporations in Florida and California to hide his assets,” according to the lawsuit. by the way if
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They can help with such issues as being retaliated against for making a complaint of discrimination or alternatvely for taking pregnancy or medical leave
He is truly one of the leading Los Angeles wrongful termination lawyer in the region. Alright now back to the article…
“I had thought he was a friend. That’s why I stayed with him as long as I did……”stated canseco’s former lawyer. He perhaps should have considered just how the former slugger treated his other “friends” such as in his
tell all book where he basically ratted on his former teammates and chronicles in great detail their sordid steroid abuse. In fact his ex lawyer assisted him with his book deals plus his civil & criminal issues while negotiating his various contracts.
Canseco has had a lot of such legal issues over the years including at least one firearm violation and spousal abuse as well a Miami nightclub incident. Wow, with friends like him, who really needs enemies. What a classy guy.
Canseco mainly played big league baseball with the Oakland A’s and New York Yankees and hit more than four hundred home runs in his career. He was world serious champion while with Oakland as well and was pricipally an outfielder with some designated hitter duties, particularly while he was with New York.

According to an article reported by Peta Hellard of Los Angeles,
the now dead down under actor Heath Ledger was described as a “drug addict” and “a known drug user” in a major lawsuit in Los Angeles.
The hunky motion picture star, who sadly passed away this last January from an overdose of prescription drugs, is named in the lawsuit about a scandalous video where he was filmed snorting coke and even discussing his criminal narcotics habits as part of a controversial sting by paparazzi.
This specific legal action was launched by a north american news reporter who along with their attorneys is suing the big (and i mean big) Los Angeles based paparazzi agency ‘Splash News’ over this sting, which was photographed in her room at the Hollywood hotel Chateau Marmont on the same night that he won an award for his performance as a homosexual cowboy in Brokeback Mountain.
In this particular film footage, a guilt-wracked Ledger said that he was a steady narcotics user while gf Michelle Williams and their little two year old daughter slept in an upstairs hotel room. Incidentially if you are in southern California and you are in need of a solid los angeles criminal defense attorneys then by all means take a look at the
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As it turned out, the reporter is suing owners Gary Morgan and Kevin Smith plus 2 of the agency’s employees - Darren Banks and Eric Munn - for damages to her career as well as emotional distress.
A thirty-four page document that was filed at the Los Angeles Superior Court and secured by News Limited stated that Munn, a videographer, plus Banks, a paparazzi style photographer, befriended Ledger in the hotel’s lobby late at night before inviting him to the lady’s hotel room.
Further, this filing alleges the pair secretly set up a camera on the balcony outside of the said hotel room prior to plying the actor with various narcotics and filming part of the 7-hour criminal coke binge through the open window there.

More news from New York, Los Angeles, and the criminal defense attorney files…..The rapper and sometime actor known as 50 Cent has issued a statement regarding the fire which destroyed the New York house of his childs mother and their ten year-old son.
“Informed this morning while filming a new motion picture on location in Louisiana, Curtis Jackson expressed deep concern over this fire at his property,” his representative stated. “He is extremely thankful that everyone including his son, Marquise, escaped the burning house safely.
His ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins and 2 of her kids, including her son with the rapper, were among 6 individuals hospitalized following a major fire that wiped out the house. All 6 of them are in stable condition at the time of the statement in question.
Meanwhile, investigators have since describing the fire as “suspicious” because to the excessive intensity of it, according to the said report
There has been legal issues surrounding the house already.
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All in all, Fiddy bought it in January 2007 for $1.4 million and the previous month had attempted to evict Tompkins unless she came up with some $4,500 a month in rent payments. Tompkins meanwhile has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against the rapper (birth name:Curtis Jackson), stating that he had previously pledged to put the house under her name.
In addition to this, the fire in question occured literally days following a deposition that turned heated and spilled out onto the streets of New york City.
At this point, the rapper is not a suspect, but the investigation is nonetheless ongoing. mtv.co.uk however is reporting that his ex-girlfriend is accusing him of the crime. The website report went on to quote her:
““He tried to kill me and his own child.” Fifty Cent was given the right to evict Tompkins and his own kid from the house 2 months ago by the court.
After much criticism he told a United States radio station: “I haven’t dealt with her since 2003…. She ain’t had a job, she ain’t done nothing”. I am not saying that he is a criminal, but his behavior is somewhat similiar to that of a criminal type. In any case, it is a far cry from his Los Angeles/Hollywood (Hollyweird) persona in my hubmble but hones opinion. In his movie he was pertrayed as so family oriented and true to his girl. He said something to the effect of ‘nobody messes with my family’. Yeah, sure kid.

Note, certain specific tidbits of the following article has been quoted from the elite news sources at Mercury News 2008
and the Los Angeles Daily News (Alex Doobuzinskis). Thanks to these tip top news firms and their first rate writers plus the Prison legal News Website for their insight as well. For a number of celebrities and other affluent non-violent offenders, a prison cell at the Los Angeles area city jail is just a credit card number or stack of currency away, with Glendale’s facility in particular gaining a reputation as
an island of decency in an ocean of inhumanity called the Los Angeles County jail system. Most recently,
 convicted celebrities like television and film actor Kiefer Sutherland as well as Gary Collins chose the location to lock down in. According to the news reports,
some experts have stated that the golden state’s twelve or so “boutique jails” like the aforementioned one at Glendale have the downside of being expensive and mandate that the inmates there to serve their full sentences with no time off for good behavior, etc. However, it is nevertheless an attractive option for many affluent individuals who can afford this luxury and do not wish to go to county prisons
where inmates are packed in like rats in a cage. It helps to have a good lawyer too, of course. Having said all of that, though, it should be noted that
these smaller city jails are not really what you would all-inclusive hotels, either. In Glendale, for instance, the floors are made of concrete, the walls are brick and even the cells are quite small, with bunk beds to hold 2 prisoners in a cell at times.
This is, however, quite a contrast to the notorious Los Angeles County prisons, where some two thousand and five hundred attacks occured in a recent annual time period, according to a county report. Despite being rather expensive(about the same price as staying at a Holiday Inn or something similiar), literally hundreds of jailbirds have decided on these various programs in the greater Los Angeles area last year. In addition, those numbers seem to be growing. For instance, the city of Pasadena has seen the overall number of prisoners using their particular facilities leap to over 2,000 last year. And by the way, if you require a solid Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer then might I recommend the excellent law offices of Jeffery Rubenstein.There you can get a free consultation for various white collar crimes, juvenile cases, probation violations, internet transgressions, Warrants,traffic charges and even felony charges. Jeffery is a superb Criminal Defense Lawyer, in my opinion.
Also, while the cities of Burbank and Fullerton process a smaller number of pay-to-stay inmates than Pasadena, they have also seen a steady stream of them, according to the reports. The Los Angeles Police Department as well as the Ventura County police agencies do not have such programs, however.

When celebrity heiress Paris Hilton, 26, was sentenced to 45 days in county jail last year for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case, she got her own cell at Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood. She also was released after serving 23 days. And she had a good lawyer and is hardly what you would call a hardened criminal , too. While rather limited, these pay-to-stay programs are a help to some jails. For instance, Pasadena recieved about a quarter-million dollars in 2007 from pay-to-stay prisoners and Glendale has recived some ten thousand dollars in pay-to-stay fees, according to published reports.

Professional stand-up comedian/actor Chris Rock took the witness chair in a
 Los Angeles coutroom and stated that he had hired indicted Hollywood private investigator and celebrity lawyer Tony Pellicano to investigate a claim from a women that he was the father of her child.
The star of such comedic movies such as ‘The Aristocrats’ and ‘Bad Company’ as well as a regular on the television show ‘Saturday night Live’ entered the almost silent Los Angeles courthouse and quite swiftly the judge’s anger during the swearing in process.
Evidently he answered “yup” to the usual question of whether or not he would agree to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. As you might expect, the judge preciding over this whole fiasco felt his reply was a bit disrespectful to say the least.
He reprimanded him for his choice of words. Then, when he was questioned on under oath as to whether he fully or partially realized that Pellicano was engaged in various criminal activities, he said something like  “I relied on what my lawyer told me.”
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Alright now back to the story at hand: A Los Angeles government lawyer  on the case said that Pellicano took his lawyer and investigator-for-the-famous people act just a bit too far, going as far as bribing the Los Angeles police department as well as telephone firm workers to gain important data which could be used later on in various legal battles.
He is charged with running a criminal operation which employed illegal wiretaps to destroy his client’s legal opponents. There have been a number of strange turns which have occured as of late.  For instance, In a recorded telephone conversation that had also surfaced on the internet which was reportedly to be between the P.I. and the actor several years back, 2 individuals who sound like Rock and Pellicano could be heard talking about his accuser in very blunt and eveninsulting language.
A short bit of this conversation was played in the courthouse, and it appears to contradict Rock’s sworn statements that he was not aware that his lawyer was employing such criminal methods to obtain data about Rock’s accuser. Pellicano is heard telling the comedic actor:
“I’m not supposed to have this thing, do you understand?’ and then Rock replies, “Yes, I understand.”

At many of the most plush spas around the world, volcanic clay masks are used to enhance the youthfulness of one’s skin. Is this the secret that many celebrities and rich people use to stay young looking? Volcanic ash clay which is typically referred to as sodium bentonite clay is formed when the ash, which results from a volcanic eruption, mixes with water. The result is clay, which contains an relative major density of such of minerals. These have been known to have a number of aesthetic type benefits.  More details at volcanic ash clay skin care Furthermore, they have also been known to create a huge difference in the overall appearance of the skin. When applying this volcanic ash clay to the skin it is quite helpful in lifting the skin.  This particularvolcanic ash clay due to the special mineral content may suck toxins out of the skin it can also help to draw out a number of impurities. These are some of the things, which cause skin conditions like acne, and blemishes, which can lower self-esteem. Using a clay mask can help to pull out oils, and other substances, which leads to these types of blemishes. Clay treatments may further help to sharply limit wrinkles as well as stretch marks. The secret is the ionizing effect of the minerals, which make up the volcanic ash clay in question. It is unclear exactly how many models and/or celebrities use this stuff but up until recently it was found found only in a handful of the most private and upscale spas. Bit now the cat is out of the bag, and the genie is out of the bottle, so to speak. Now this secret has been opened up to the everyone in a wide array of beauty items that can make it possible for everyone to enjoy the wonders and benefits of this well kept skin purifying and beautifying secret.

Volcanic Ash clay may likewise purify the skin. It draws away the toxins and poisons that every day life puts on your skin letting its natural beauty show through. It may further help to reduce certain signs of aging, give the skin a youthful appearance, as well as a sort of  luminous glow. It also helps reduce the signs of sun damage and the appearance of cellulite as well as acne.

According to reports the Long Beach DUI attorneys, Laguna Beach Police Department have reported that Laguna Beach police officers noticed a black Hummer weaving in and out of traffic. The vehicle in question was driven by Richie Sambora and there was also 3 females in the vehicle as well. One of these young girls was later identified as his daughter with ex-wife Heather Locklear.

In a statement by Stg. Jason Kravetz of the Laguna Beach Police Department after Sambora was stopped he was given field sobriety tests and arrested, he was cooperative and the arrest went without any further incident. Sambora was released from jail at approximately 4 am on Wednesday.

Sambora, a member of the popular Rock band Bon Jovi is supposed to appear in court for a hearing on May 7th to answer to driving under the influence. But it is thought that at that time he may also face a charge of endangering minors due to the underage girls who were present in the vehicle in question. 

 All in all, facing a Los Angeles DUI charge can be a spooky experience for many, and jail time is often a  possibility along with the loss of a drivers licence for the long term, unfortunately…… for anyone who has been cited with a DUI violation in Anaheim, anywhere in Torrance, Los Angeles, Redondo Beach, Palos Verdes, and any other community or city in the state.  DUI attorneys are all too familiar with how a .08 BAC charge can harm your reputation and insurance credits, as well as set you back financially. By the way, if you require a high grade Los Angeles DUI attorneys then give the Law Offices of Michael Ehline a call, you will be glad that you did.
An  important steps you can make if you or one of your family members have received a DUI , is to contact one of the Los Angeles areas leading DUI attorneys who have the experience and the know-how in representing many folks who have received this sad citation.  

It is really great to know that experienced criminal defense attorneys will do their best to see that your DUI charges are dismissed at the DMV administrative court or heating, and they will be by your side as well. 

Remember, do not just assume on autopilot that you will be facing a major jail term.  Aggressive criminal defense attorneys will do their best to research the field sobriety test and also the Breathalyzer test, if applicable. In addition to this,  Blood tests that you were given can also be double-checked for accuracy, if need be.

<p>When you or one of your family members have been faced with receiving a DUI charge, you need that added assurance that you have an experienced lawyer who is on your side, working for you and not against you.  These competent attorneys have vast knowledge and experience in handling DUI cases with the utmost in professionalism and aggression that is needed in cases of this nature