Day: October 12, 2023

Eyewitness identifications play a crucial role in criminal prosecutions. More than 70% of wrongful convictions result from mistaken eyewitness identifications. Providing an effective defense requires challenging unreliable identification procedures. Problems with eyewitness identifications Human memory is susceptible to suggestion, bias, and error. Yet many people place great confidence in eyewitness testimony. This misplaced confidence in eyewitness reliability has led to countless wrongful convictions. Some factors that undermine eyewitness identifications include: Witnessing a crime is stressful. High stress impairs cognitive functioning and memory accuracy. When a visible weapon is present, witnesses tend to focus on the weapon instead of the perpetrator’s…

California Franchise Tax Board (FTB), is responsible for the enforcement of the California income tax laws. Some tax lawyers believe the FTB is more difficult to deal with than that of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Our California tax attorneys have extensive experience in negotiating tax solutions for both FTB tax audits and FTB tax liabilities. FTB tax audits are often not tax audits. They simply piggyback on IRS tax audit results. It's almost a guarantee that if you have an IRS tax audit, the IRS will send the results to the California Franchise Tax Board and that you will…