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Boise Criminal Lawyers see a variety of crime in the Boise area.  Although the Boise Police Department reports that the number of crimes in Boise, Idaho are down for the past six years, the Idaho Statesman continually reports on the variety of crime taking place in the Treasure Valley.

Today's paper highlighted three sex crimes and one drug crime.  The sex crimes were sexual assault, lewd conduct and child porn.  The drug charges consisted of possession of marijuana with the intent to, trafficking marijuana, manufacture of marijuana and possession of meth.

Even though the three sex crimes are all sex crimes, Boise Criminal Lawyers see them differently primarily because of the nature of the underlying crime and the penalties associated with each.  The sexual assault case is an unsolved case to date.  Boise Police are looking for a man who assault a woman at Winstead Park in Boise.  They believe that this assault is related to several others in the area.  As a Boise Criminal Lawyer I feel that if the man is detained and charged and the evidence is there that he would be charged with numerous charges of sexual assault and if convicted will face a very long prison sentence.

The lewd conduct charge involved a 21 year old man and a 15 year old girl.  Lewd conduct with a minor under the age of 16 is a felony and punishable by life in prison.  The other sex crime reported in Boise today was a child porn case.  For possession of child pornography, if found guilty, the accused can be put in the Idaho State Pen for up to ten years and be fined up to $10,000.

The fourth crime reported in the Idaho Statesman today is a drug charge for possession with the intent to distribute marijuana, trafficking marijuana, the manufacture of marijuana and possession of meth.  As a Boise Criminal Lawyer I see the penalty for all four of these charges as potentially stiffer than the lewd conduct or the child pornography, simply because of the extent and number of charges.  Like the sexual assault, it is the number of charges against the defendant that will ultimately create a larger sentence.

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Boise Criminal Lawyer Talks About Assault and Battery Over a Dog Biscuit

As a Boise Criminal Lawyer I found today's headlines almost humorous.  Not in Idaho, but in Montana, a man tried to give a dog a biscuit through a man's fence.  The man, to whom the dog belonged, thought the other man was trying to poison his dog.  The owner of the dog grabbed the man and threw him up against the garage.

From a criminal defense prospective I wonder if there aren't two crimes involved here.  There is obviously the assault and battery against the man who threw the other man against the garage.  This is obviously an assault and battery.  There was an unlawful touching and an act of violence.  But, as a Boise Criminal Defense Attorney I wonder if the man feeding the dog could be charged with trespass.  Certainly he was messing with the property of another.  Not just with the dog but also by reaching through the fence.  As a criminal defense lawyer I would offer this argument to the prosecuting attorney, the state's lawyer, and show that the man charged with assault and battery had been hassled and was responding to the threat; defense of property.

Whether or not it was a matter of pride the man against whom the assault and battery was committed reported that he was not injured.

Boise Criminal Attorney Discusses Hate Crimes in Idaho

As a Boise Criminal Attorney I often get calls from individuals asking about hate crimes in Idaho.  Idaho Code 18-7902 defines a hate crime as the  malicious or with specific intent to intimidate someone because of their race, color, religion, national ancestry, or national origin to cause physical injury, damage, destroy or deface the property of another, threaten harm by act or word a person who fits within the above definition.

As a Boise Criminal Attorney I often hear from people that that definition does not cover all the people who are subject to hate crime, specifically gay people.  If you are gay in Idaho and you have been subject to malicious harm or intimidation does the law protect you?  Lawyers and attorneys will tell you it does, but it does in a different way than this code section provides.  Boise lawyers and attorneys would tell you that you are protected under general Idaho law.  For example, if you were the subject of malicious harassment and you were physically harmed the prosecuting attorney, the lawyer for the state, would charge the defendant with assault and battery.  If your property was damaged intentionally and maliciously, the prosecuting attorney, the lawyer for the state, would prosecute the defendant on a property crime such as trespass, vandalism, arson, burglary etc.

No one should ever be belittled, demeaned, intimidated, ridiculed or physically or mentally harmed for any reason including their sexual orientation.  Idaho law needs to enter the 21st century and include sexual orientation in the definition of hate crimes.

If you need to speak to a lawyer or attorney about crime in Idaho or the specific crimes of assault and battery, theft, larceny, burglary, possession, drugs or any other crime please contact our law firm at (208) 472-2383