Bob Grimes was honored as this year’s recipient of the Daniel T. Broderick III Award at the 2018 Red Boudreau Trial Lawyers Dinner. The Daniel T. Broderick III Award is a prestigious award given to the top trial attorneys in San Diego. Recipients of the award...
by Dana M. Grimes, Esq. “Once partners in crime recognize that the ‘jig is up,’ they tend to lose any identity of interest and immediately become antagonists, rather than accomplices.” - Lee v. Illinois (1986) 476 U.S. 530, *544-45. In criminal trials, the issue of...
by Dana M. Grimes, Esq. Sometimes movies do a pretty good job of describing fraud. 2015’s The Big Short accurately described massive fraud in mortgages for residential real estate, by lenders, borrowers, and mortgage brokers, that occurred while federal regulators...
by Dana M. Grimes, Esq. There has been a lot of political debate surrounding the tragic shooting death of Kate Steinle. While walking on a pier in the Embarcadero with her father, she was killed by a bullet in the back, fired by a Mexican national with a long...
by Dana M. Grimes, Esq. In United States v. Sanchez-Gomez, 584 U.S. -, No. 17-312 (2018), the Court vacated the Ninth Circuit's en banc decision striking down as unconstitutional the Southern District's policy on pre-trial shackling of defendants. The Supreme Court...
by Dana M. Grimes, Esq. Bob’s Jobs On November 3, 2009, Bob McDonnell was elected the 71st Governor of Virginia. His campaign slogan was “Bob’s for Jobs,” and his focus in office was on promoting business in Virginia. Several years later, he and his wife, Maureen,...
by Dana M. Grimes, Esq. "DON'T GO TO THE PEN, SEND A FRIEND" Cooperating Witnesses, The Race to be First in the Door: In many multi-defendant cases, the prosecutor evaluates which defendants have the ability to help the prosecution. In white-collar prosecutions,...
Tomayo’s Case On January 22, 2014, Edgar Tomayo was executed by lethal injection in the prison in Huntsville, Texas. Handcuffed and in the back of a patrol car after being arrested for auto theft, Tomayo produced a concealed hand gun and murdered the arresting police...
By Dana M. Grimes Sentencing Reform Proposition 47 passed with 58% of the vote, and went into effect November 5, 2014. As a result, for qualifying defendants, most simple possession drug cases are reduced from straight felony or wobblers to straight misdemeanors, as...
by Dana M. Grimes, Esq. Trickery is not Entrapment ATF agents in Phoenix paid a confidential informant to find potential armed robbers, and offered them the opportunity rob a stash house. The plan involved overcoming armed guards to steal a large amount of cocaine....