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Education/Credentials Education has NOTHING to do with this topic. When the Feds pick up your son or daughter you want FACTS, Not a bunch of case sites. But yes, I have the education to assist even the hardest cases.
Awards and Honors Too many to list, but I do not do this for the prestige. I do this to ensure that the families that are effected by the actions of their loved ones can be counseled correctly PRIOR to paying an attorney a 25-100K retainer, that in many cases means absoultely nothing, especially in the federal system.
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Subject: armed robbery
Question:
Dear Mr. Paisola, I have a friend who is above the age of 18 who needs some advice. He and another person are planning on robbing a store. possibly a 7-11 type store. Guns could be involved. We all live in Maryland. If they are caught, what is the maximum and minimum punishment they can receive. I know that it all depends on their previous records which i don't know and who the judge might be and other specifics like that. i would just like to know the worst and best case scenario. thank you very much
Answer: NATE-
LISTEN TO ME CLEARLY..... I AM NOT COMING OUT OF LEFT FIELD ON THIS ISSUE AND YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO ME CLEARLY.
YOU ARE FUCKING AROUND WITH THE FEDS. THEY WILL NAIL YOUR ASS TO THE WALL FOR 5-10 YEARS. THIS IS NOT A GAME.
NATE, DO NOT DO THIS. IT IS NOT WORTH IT. WHATEVER YOU NEED, I CAN HELP YOU IN ANY WAY THAT I CAN, BUT DO NOT USE A GUN IN THE COMMISSION OF A FELONY.
TRUST ME BROTHER, I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE GET LOCKED UP FOR A LONG TIME FOR STUFF LIKE THIS. THE FEDS DO NOT SCREW AROUND.
YOU WILL BE AT A PARTY GETTING HIGH, AND THE UNITED STATES MARSHALS WILL BREAK DOWN THE DOOR AND TAKE YOU TO COUNTY JAIL, WHERE YOU WILL GET NO DRUGS, NO WITHDRAW MEDICATION AND WHEN IT IS ALL OVER YOU WILL BE IN PRISON.
DO YOU HEAR ME?
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YOU GUYS ARE NO LONGER KIDS, THE COURTS WILL EAT YOU ALIVE. TRUST ME ON THIS.
NOW, TAKE 2 MINUTES AND LEAVE FEEDBACK ON THIS SITE, AS I JUST KEPT YOUR ASS OUT OF JAIL.
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Criminal Law - Arson Prisoners- What do you think- Robert Paisola Responds
Expert: Robert Paisola - 8/22/2007
Question How many prisoners do you think, are serving time for arson?
Answer Hello Justin,
Thanks for writing to me on the subject of Arson and the people that are arrested for that specific crime.
Like you, I watch Court TV, and The Discovery Channel, and I am truly amazed at how technical the investigation process is on an arson case. So to begin with, I am going to do some research for you.
Now, my research always starts with GOOGLE.. so lets see what they say...
I entered HOW MANY ARSONS PER YEAR and got this...
Although there was a net increase in arson arrests of 5 percent from 1987 to 1996, arson actually accounts for a very small and declining fraction of the activity of the criminal justice system. In 1996, in fact, arson arrests decreased 7 percent after decreasing 3 percent in 1995, increasing 5 percent in 1994, decreasing 1 percent in 1993, and increasing 2 percent in 1992 and 1991. In 1996, arson arrests made up just 0.12 percent of all arrests and just 0.67 percent of all FBI index crime arrests. Of the eight FBI index crimes, which include murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson, arson nearly always ranks last in number of arrests.
According to FBI statistics, law enforcement agencies have solved, or cleared, between 15 and 19 percent of arson offenses every year since 1980. In 1996, the clearance rate was 16 percent. This rate is much lower than the rate for violent crimes, such as murder, aggravated assault, and rape, but it's on the same order as the clearance rate for other property crimes, such as burglary. Interestingly, the clearance rates for arson, as for all major crimes, tend to be lower in larger cities than they are in smaller cities and rural communities, possibly because people in smaller communities are more likely to know one another, which can make solving a crime easier.
The only alleged perpetrators of 46 percent of all the arsons cases cleared in 1996 were under age 18. This is roughly four times the share of the population between the ages of 10 and 17. It's also the highest percentage of juvenile involvement in any FBI index crime.
The percentage of 1996 arson clearances involving only juveniles was highest-61 percent-for fires involving outdoor trash, brush, and items other than structures and vehicles, and lowest-25 percent-for fires involving vehicles. The rate for structural arson clearances involving only juveniles was 44 percent.
Juveniles also accounted for 53 percent of those arrested for arson in 1996, the third straight year in which the rate was over 50 percent. Nonetheless, arson arrests of juveniles actually decreased 6 percent in 1996, bucking a recent trend toward more arrests among juveniles that reflects both a rise in juvenile arrests and a drop in adult arrests. From 1987 to 1996, there was a 36 percent net increase in arrests of juveniles for arson and a 17 percent decrease in arrests of adults. In 1996, adult arson arrests decreased by 8 percent.
Not only do juveniles make up a large share of all arson arrests, but further analysis shows just how young many of these offenders are. More than one-third of all persons arrested for arson in 1996 were under 15, and roughly one of every 15 persons arrested was under 10 (see Table 5).
Motives, convictions, and sentences
Why do people commit arson? A 1982 USFA report, summarizing the results of several special studies, noted that vandalism and malicious mischief-analogous to what we now describe as juvenile firesetting-and revenge or spite, presumably by adults, were the leading motives cited. Farther back but still significant were pyromania or other mental illness and arson for profit, where profit includes concealment of a crime.
Arson is also used by some drug dealers and gangs as a weapon.(2) A six-month study of five U.S. cities conducted in 1993 found that roughly 22 percent of the arson fires studied were drug-related, with a high degree of consistency across the cities.
These results should be viewed with caution. A full year of data is needed to eliminate seasonal effects, and the five cities may not be representative of other cities, let alone of the entire country. It's also likely that the patterns found wouldn't apply to the same degree to the two-thirds share of the total arson problem that's not coded as incendiary in the field but is left as suspicious or of unknown cause. Even so, the research to date suggests a problem on the order of thousands or tens of thousands of fires per year. That's still a small fraction of the total arson problem, but the number of incidents is large enough, particularly in some cities, to deserve attention.
The U.S. Department of Justice has performed a number of special studies of those convicted of arson that provide useful insights into the arsonist population. According to one done in 1988, 31 percent of state prison inmates whose most serious offense was arson said they were under the influence of illegal drugs when they committed their offenses, and 39 percent said they'd used illegal drugs daily in the month before they committed their offenses.(3) Incarcerated arsonists tend to differ from arsonists in general in that fewer of them are juveniles or first offenders.
Of the 0.7 percent of state prisoners released in 1983 whose most serious offense was arson, 55.3 percent were rearrested for some new crime within three years, 38.5 percent were reconvicted within three years, and 32.3 percent were reincarcerated within three years.(4) All these percentages were considerably lower than the overall recidivism rates and even further below the recidivism rate for other property crimes.
The average sentence served by an arsonist in a state prison is 26 months if it's a first release from prison. Otherwise, the average sentence is 19 months. Half of all arsonists released from prison served 18 months or fewer if it was a first release, 10 months otherwise.
The average length of a federal prison sentence imposed on arsonists in 1990 was 48 months, with half sentenced to 36 months or less.(5) Half of the arsonists released from federal prison had served at least 33 months, which is nearly twice the time served in state prisons. Of course, the sentence served is typically much shorter than the sentence imposed.
According to a study of 178 federal court cases from 1980 to 1989 in which arson was the most serious offense listed for the suspect, the government prosecuted 43 percent of the cases in district court, referred 7 percent to U.S. magistrates, and declined to prosecute 50 percent. A study of 160 arson cases prosecuted and terminated in U.S. district court in the same period found that 66 percent led to convictions and 23 percent were dismissed. Eleven percent of these cases weren't characterized, but they were presumably acquittals.(6)
Put all these studies together, and you begin to get an overall picture of the criminal justice aspects of arson. These characterizations are very rough, particularly because they use statistics from federal and state courts interchangeably, but they reveal a pattern. Of all the set fires that are reported to fire departments-whether they're coded as incendiary, suspicious, or of unknown cause-about one-third are confirmed as incendiary and thus identified as arson. Of these, 80 to 85 percent are never solved or cleared by an arrest. About half of those arrested aren't prosecuted, and about one-third of those prosecuted aren't convicted. Altogether, the percentage of set fires for which someone is convicted is roughly 2 percent. About one-third of those convicted receive no jail or prison time, and the majority of those sent to jail or prison get less than two years. Once released, more than half of those who were incarcerated are rearrested for something, though not necessarily arson, within three years.
The biggest opportunities to change this picture come in the earliest stages, when the fires are investigated to confirm incendiarism and the confirmed arson is investigated to identify and arrest the alleged perpetrators. By the time the district attorneys and courts enter the picture, most set fires have been lost from the system.
What can we conclude?
Arson and suspected arson account for nearly two of every five dollars lost in nonresidential structure fires and are a leading cause of fires and property loss in residential structures, vehicles, and outdoor properties. Fortunately, the largest share of loss due to arson and suspected arson-loss in structures-has declined after adjustment for inflation from its peak in 1980. We've made some progress, but it may not continue without sustained, concentrated effort, and the problem that remains is still far too large. We don't know enough to pinpoint reasons for the trends, but there are four principal factors to consider
First, wider use of sophisticated investigative techniques may be giving a truer picture of fire cause profiles. Since there's little or no evidence to indicate that these techniques are showing that the arson problem was overstated in past years, it's more likely that they would have raised the estimated size of the arson problem and that the measured declines are due to one or more of the other three factors.
Second, wider use of anti-arson programs, like the arson task force approach and counseling for juvenile firesetters, may be producing real reductions in the arson problem. Because these programs are still far from universally used, however, they may explain only part of the trends.
Third, whatever has caused the recent movements in the overall totals of fires in structures may also have caused the trends in the number of incendiary and suspicious structure fires. Both the years of decline and the years of leveling off have been similar for incendiary and suspicious structure fires and all structure fires. From 1979 to 1989, 1991 to 1994, and in 1996, the NFPA survey results showed incendiary and suspicious structure fires fluctuating between 13 and 15 percent of all structure fires, with no clear trend. In 1990 and again in 1995, the numbers jumped to 16 percent, each time indicating that unintentional fires were declining faster than incendiary and suspicious fires in structures.
Finally, there may be trends in the general population that make arson less likely. For example, males aged 10 to 19 constituted 7.2 percent of the population in 1994, compared to 8.9 percent in 1980. This relative decline in the arson-prone age and sex segment could help explain the lower arson rate per 100,000 population, even though the absolute number of people in that segment has increased.
We should be encouraged by the general progress we've made in curtailing arson, but we should also be concerned about the continued loss of life and property that arson causes and skeptical of any simple explanations of our patterns and trends. If we can extend anti-arson programs across the country, arson should decline. We're a long way from controlling arson, but we do have some powerful tools if we use them.
For arson task force or strike force programs, a key is developing interagency organizational arrangements and policies that really work. If arson is to be effectively addressed, police and fire departments need to work together effectively, and other public agencies and private groups should be regularly involved. Of course, there are powerful barriers to such cooperation that can only be overcome if questions about lines of authority, access to financial and informational resources, roles, and ways of operating are addressed explicitly, possibly by following one of the many successful models already in use in several communities across the United States.
If juvenile firesetter counseling programs are to work, we need to become more aware of the many types of juvenile firesetters, to assess the particular circumstances of each firesetter, and to match treatment to those circumstances. For example, children with no significant psychological problems may start fires in the course of an otherwise normal preteen phase of experimenting with their environments. Older juvenile firesetters typically have serious psychological problems, generally traceable to one of several specific types of stresses, including child abuse and learning disabilities. Use of a proven classification scheme can permit effective matching of programs to firesetters.
Finally, we must remember that heightened security is an important element of arson prevention. In most properties, incendiary and suspicious fires are scattered among all the areas of the building, suggesting that security should aim for a greater level of awareness and routine scouting everywhere, not just in a few areas. Security should be especially tight when the building isn't in operation. Utility spaces, such as crawl spaces and attics, are rarely targets, which suggests that arsonists rarely go to extraordinary lengths to conceal their fires. Rather, they set them in places that are used regularly during business hours. Exterior surfaces are popular targets, too, and should be considered in security plans. The diversity of areas of origin of incendiary and suspicious fires also underlines the importance of complete building coverage for fire protection features, such as automatic sprinklers and detection and alarm systems, that mitigate losses when prevention fails.
So, it looks like the arrest trend is coming down, but the reasoning for the crime is very complex. Have fun reasing the whole report, as it is very descriptive and will tell you how many people in a community of 250,000 were arrested. Information overkill if ya ask me.!
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