Have you been accused of a sexual offense? In the area of criminal law or DCFS investigations there are certain things that you should do right away if you have been accused. I have been a criminal defense lawyer who has handled hundreds of sex offense investigations over the past 18 years and ...
In the field of criminal law, I receive calls every week from people who have been contacted by the police whether it is in Chicago, Naperville, Schaumburg or anywhere in the Chicago area and surrounding counties. All of these people want to know what they should do when being investigated by th...
John W Callahan has represented people charged with DUI in the Schaumburg and surrounding towns for more than 19 years. What should you do if you are arrested for a DUI in Schaumburg? First, you must attack the statutory summary suspension. What is the Statutory Summary Suspension? When you a...
Corporations are a legal person which, like individuals, may be prosecuted for crimes. However, individuals within that corporation may have committed crimes such as money laundering or fraud that pose criminal liability to the business because corporations act only through their employees and of...
One of the strangest elements of American criminal justice practice is that some policies or strategies are often minimized because they are viewed as not being sufficiently punitive. Take the problem of drunk driving. No one who studies the issue believes it to be a minor problem, but it is typi...
Social media and cellphones have had a significant impact on many aspects of the legal system. The constant presence of cellphones and the ubiquity of Facebook lead many people to forget that they are creating a record of their activity for the entire world to see. In divorce cases, people often...
Most people have heard of felony crimes, but many may not really know what distinguished a felony from a misdemeanor charge. The technical difference is simple. A felony is any charge where the potential sentence can exceed one year's time. So, a misdemeanor is by definition, are all crimes with ...
Drunk driving presents a real problem. No one wants to be on the road with an intoxicated driver. Most likely, even drivers who are operating a vehicle while their blood alcohol content (BAC) is above Illinois' legal limit, were they sober, would be uncomfortable with their own driving. They prob...
The use of sobriety checkpoints in Chicago has raised questions of racial bias, after an investigation by the Chicago Tribune found a disproportionate number of these checkpoints being conducted in minority areas of the city. Sobriety checkpoints were first authorized by the U.S. Supreme Court c...
Drunk driving presents a real problem. No one wants to be on the road with an intoxicated driver. Most likely, even drivers who are operating a vehicle while their blood alcohol content (BAC) is above Illinois' legal limit, were they sober, would be uncomfortable with their own driving. They prob...
Sometimes, it is easy to determine if a crime has been committed. A murder, the shipment of a large quantity of illegal drugs, the armed robbery of a bank, all easily classify as a crime. The situation becomes less clear when dealing with other issues that have unsavory or illegal overtones, but ...
Were you arrested for a DUI over the Labor Day weekend? Be aware of a few things. The traditional end-of-summer holiday weekend is always an active one for DUI-related arrests in Illinois. Everyone makes plans to get out, get together, and enjoy one last summer weekend before eight months of col...
There are many routine criminal cases in Illinois every day. Drug charges, DUIs, gun crimes, murders, assaults, conspiracy make up the day-to-day cases of the dockets of criminal courts in the Chicago area and throughout the state. But then there are exceptional cases. One of those cases just en...
What do I do if my son has been charged with a heroin offense in Cook County, Illinois?As a criminal defense lawyer who has handled hundreds of drug charge cases successfully, if you have a son who has been charged with a heroin offense in Chicago or Cook County Illinois, there's much we can do t...
Has there been a reduction in DUI arrests in Schaumburg? Schaumburg, Illinois, used to be one of the top DUI writers in the entire state of Illinois. I have noticed anecdotally that Schaumburg has reduced the number of DUI arrests since they had numerous police officers indicted on federal corrup...
As a felony drug lawyer who has represented hundreds of people charged with heroin arrests stemming from the west side of Chicago or Oak Park, John W Callahan can help with the case.First, it is important to have an effective attorney who can help at the bond hearing so that your son can get out ...
As a DUI lawyer who is handled hundreds of cases of people who have been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol in Schaumburg, Illinois, many clients have asked me if their case will be affected by the recent corruption and federal investigation of the Schaumburg Police Department.Wh...
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As a DUI lawyer who represents clients charged with DUI in Arlington Heights and Schaumburg many clients ask what the difference is between the two. While both a Schaumburg DUI arrest and an Arlington Heights DUI arrest are heard in the same court building (district 3 of the Cook County circuit i...
As a Chicago DUI lawyer for the past 15 years I have represented hundreds if not thousands of people charged with DUI in Chicago and the surrounding area. One of the most important questions people ask me is if they can continue driving after they are arrested for a DUI in Chicago. The answer is ...
As a DUI lawyer with our main office in Schaumburg, Illinois, I have represented hundreds of clients charged with a Schaumburg DUI arrest. The main thing that we need to remember when you are arrested in Schaumburg is that the case will be brought to the Rolling Meadows courthouse and you will be...
As a criminal defense lawyer in Schaumburg Illinois, both John Callahan have represented clients charge with retail theft from Schaumburg for decades. Most retail theft cases that occur in Schaumburg happen at the Woodfield mall near route 53. Most people who are charged with a retail theft case ...
As a DUI lawyer in Chicago, I have represented thousands of clients over the past 15 years who have been charged with DUI. One of the first things that the best DUI attorney does In any case is to file a petition to attack the summary suspension. This is done sometimes on the day of the DUI arres...
As a DUI lawyer in Schaumburg, Illinois, many clients ask what happens to their case when they are arrested for a DUI in Schaumburg. Like most Illinois DUI cases, the person who is arrested in Schaumburg for DUI will face two parts of his case. The first part deals with the statutory summary susp...
As a DUI lawyer who handles many clients who have been arrested for DUI in Mount Prospect, Illinois, I have been reviewing statistics for DUI arrests Around the Chicago area and have noticed that Mount Prospect has almost as many DUI arrests as Naperville per capita. Mount Prospect has approximat...
