How Does Being Charged With A Federal Crime Affect My Immigration Status?

The federal court system is very different than the state court system. This is especially true if your immigration status is in question.

In some instances, a person may or may not know if he/she is a U.S. citizen. For example, birth abroad does not automatically exclude U.S. citizenship because a person may acquire or derive U.S. citizenship from one or both parents.

The immigration code sections setting forth the rules on acquisition and derivation of citizenship are among the most difficult to decipher, and Congress frequently amends the relevant statutes, sometimes making the new provisions retroactive and sometimes prospective.

Whether an individual born abroad has acquired or derived U.S. citizenship turns on the confluence of several factors, including:

• Year of the person’s birth
• Whether both parents are U.S. citizens?
• If not, which parent?
• When the parent(s) became citizen(s)?
• The marital status of the parents
• If born out of wedlock, whether the person was legitimated?
• The length of time the citizen parent(s) resided in the U.S. prior to the person’s birth abroad
• Whether the person was legally admitted to or resided in the U.S.
• Whether the non-citizen’s parents, grandparents or great-grandparents were born in the U.S. or ever became naturalized U.S. citizens

Top 2 Comfort Food Hot Spots In Hollywood

                                                  

1. Stout Burger

best bet: The Morning After Burger - rosemary bacon, egg over easy,

aged cheddar, chipotle ketchup

Add some beer battered onion rings

Wash down with the Old Speckled Hen Cream Ale

2. The Oaks Gourmet Kitchen

best bet: Wild Mushroom and Truffle Oil Pizza (Brick Oven)

Add a side of Mac and Cheese

Wash Down with any one their South American or Australian Wines



Turkey and Pepper Spray

A woman shot pepper spray to keep shoppers from merchandise she wanted during a Black Friday sale, and 20 people suffered minor injuries, authorities said.

The incident occurred shortly after 10:20 p.m. Thursday in a crowded Los Angeles-area Walmart as shoppers hungry for deals were let inside the store. Police said the suspect shot the pepper spray when the coverings over the items she wanted were removed. 

"Somehow she was trying to use it to gain an upper hand," police Lt. Abel Parga reported. He said she was apparently after some electronics and used the pepper spray to keep other shoppers at bay. 

Officials said 20 people suffered minor injuries. Fire department spokesman Shawn Lenske said the injuries to least 10 of them were due to " rapid crowd movement." 

Parga said police were still looking for the woman. The store remained open and those not affected by the pepper spray continued shopping.

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CA Passes Jailhouse Snitch Law

Governor Brown just signed important new legislation requiring corroboration before a jailhouse informant can testify. California joins Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, Idaho, and several other states that require safeguards to counteract the well-documented unreliability of jailhouse snitch testimony. Here is part of the bill:

"A jury or judge may not convict a defendant, find a special circumstance true, or use a fact in aggravation based on the uncorroborated testimony of an in-custody informant."

An "in custody informant" is defined as: "a person, other than a codefendant, percipient witness, accomplice, or coconspirator, whose testimony is based on statements allegedly made by the defendant while both the defendant and the informant were held in within a city or county jail, state penal institution, or correctional institution."