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Failure to appear has serious consequences. If you are ever charged with a crime in Arizona, you will be given a court date for a hearing where your lawyer can plead your case. If you fail to appear for your court date, the judge will...

  Criminal traffic tickets are different from civil traffic tickets (like speeding) and hold more intense consequences. Unlike civil traffic tickets in Arizona, you usually can’t take a class to have your ticket dismissed.   What qualifies as a criminal traffic ticket in Arizona?  The two categories of criminal...

Subjects like these are never fun to discuss, but understanding how the law approaches and defines acts like homicide is essential when interacting with our court systems. Todd Coolidge, a Certified Criminal Law Specialist, has handled scores of challenging cases throughout Maricopa County and the...

In our last blog post, we covered the history of the Miranda Warning and how it became mandatory for all suspected criminals to be read their rights before arrest. In this post, Coolidge Law Firm (certified criminal law specialist in Phoenix, Arizona) would like to...

Todd Coolidge of Coolidge Law Firm, serving the Greater Metro-Phoenix Arizona area, has won another landmark case! Recently, The Court of Appeals made a ruling on his oral argument in the case of a California man traveling in Arizona with a physician recommendation for cannabis....

If you’ve been charged with a misdemeanor in Arizona, this post will tell you what you need to know about misdemeanor classifications and their sentencings. Since we’re criminal law specialists who have been serving Gilbert, Chandler, and Mesa Arizona for over 25 years, at Coolidge...