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Mohave County Felony Case Management Mohave County has recently implemented a Case Management Plan with the intent of improving the efficiency of felony cases heard in the Mohave County Superior Court. By increasing efficiency, the new plan will further protect a defendant's right to a quick r...

Accomplished Attorney Matthew Springer Brings Valuable Experience to Hamp Law Team It is with great excitement that the Law Offices of Shawn B. Hamp welcomes Matthew Springer as the newest attorney to our team. With years of experience fighting for his client's rights, Matthew will now be taki...

Good paying jobs in Arizona can be hard to find, but having a Driving Under the Influence (DUI) conviction on your record can limit your employment opportunities even more. Generally, DUI convictions hurt those people in-between jobs, rather than those who are firmly entrenched in their careers. ...

Being accused of child molestation, a sex crime, in northern Arizona can have lifelong consequences even if you are not guilty of the crime. Arizona law lists Molestation of a Child as one of the Dangerous Crimes Against Children. It is a Class 2 felony, which carries a presumptive prison sentenc...

For young people on their own in college and experiencing life without the limits of a home environment, understanding what is permissible and what's not comes down to perception a lot of times. College brings a lot of new experiences to young students, and that includes sex. Where the line is dr...

In May 2018, a Paradise Valley, Arizona, woman was arrested for stalking after sending 65,000 text messages over several months to a man she met online. These text messages were threatening in nature, with some indicating that she would seriously injure or kill the man. The woman was arrested aft...

In the two weeks following the Parkland school shootings in Florida in February 2018, Arizona schools received 17 separate threats from both juveniles and adults. More recently, on Monday, October 21, 2018, Benson Unified School District in Benson, Arizona, canceled classes after someone made a t...

A driver under the influence of alcohol went airborne while driving his vehicle, landing on multiple vehicles parked at a car dealership in Surprise, Arizona. On June 11, 2018, 21-year-old Zachary David Washington ran a stop sign at Bell Road and 115th Avenue. Washington then struck the median, w...

Mohave County Jail Information You Should Know Anyone Arrested for a Misdemeanor or Felony Crime in Mohave County will be Booked at the Mohave County Jail. The Mohave County Jail serves the outlining areas in the County and the cities of Kingman, Lake Havasu, and Bullhead City, Arizona.  The ja...

The holidays are a fun time. A time when family and friends get back together to celebrate, and maybe party. When alcohol is present at the party, the risk for a DUI charge on the way home is high. Holiday time usually equals a high law enforcement presence on Arizona roads. Arizona has incredib...

The craft beer industry has seen an incredible boom over the last few years thanks to the ever-changing tastes of the American beer consumer. Along with that boom in craft beer sales has come a corresponding increase in the average alcohol content of the beer itself. Higher alcohol content has be...

Scholarship Opportunity Available for Criminal Justice and Paralegal Students The Law Offices of Shawn B. Hamp have continued to display their support for the local community by donating $2,400 to fund scholarships for students at Mohave Community College. These scholarships were designed to ass...

Steve Keim, general manager of the Arizona Cardinals, was arrested for extreme DUI on July 4, 2018. He didn't even try to fight it. Rather, he pled guilty to the offense of extreme DUI on July 17, 2018. Now, not only will he face the potential penalties associated with his guilty plea, the Arizon...

An Arizona mother was charged with Extreme DUI on June 1, 2018, after DUI test results indicated she was five times over the legal limit while driving. At about 2:30 p.m. on January 15, 2018, Tempe police were called to the parking lot of a business by Mill Avenue and Rio Salado Parkway. A secur...

Landmark Ruling Made by Supreme Court on Cell Phone Privacy With every text, call, or update of Facebook, a collection of your cellular activity is shared with wireless carriers in your area. With nearly 400 million cell phone accounts currently open in the United States—more than the total popu...

NFL wide receiver Michael Floyd of the Minnesota Vikings was sentenced to serve one day in prison because he failed an alcohol test which was part of his house arrest. The drink that supposedly caused him to fail: kombucha tea. Floyd was on house arrest stemming from a DUI in Scottsdale, Arizona...

Arizona has had a backlog of more than 6,000 rape kits from unresolved sexual assault cases, dating back to 2000. By the end of April, the State had tested around half of these kits and identified and indicted eight suspects, most of who are already in jail for other crimes. This project -- start...

When it comes to the subject of driving under the influence, Arizona is what we refer to as a zero tolerance state. No three strikes and youre out in Arizona. You can straight up be arrested by law enforcement for being too drunk. While those states with more lenient DUI laws would just let you ...

Capital punishment is legal in Arizona. In violent crimes cases where prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty, you may wonder if criminal attorneys should have direct access to the victims and their families to question them about their wants and wishes with regard to the Defendants sentenc...

Taser, the company known for making the electrical shocking devices that nearly every police officer carries, has rebranded as a new company, Axon, and is developing a new law enforcement tool: a crowdsourced database of videos. While the program aims to follow through on prominent examples of t...

If youre being investigated for a crime, whether you know it or not, the Fourth Amendment is your best friend. This is because the Fourth Amendment was created to protect people who were being investigated by the state for a crime, giving them rights that were intended to prevent the government ...

A man in Florida has settled a civil rights lawsuit against his local police department after they wrongfully arrested him for possession of methamphetamine. The incident, however, is only one instance of a larger problem in law enforcement: The field testing kits they use to detect drugs are not...

When the Supreme Court of the United States makes a statement about the law, all of the courts in the country are bound by what it says, including those in Arizona. Now that there are finally nine Justices on the bench – making a 4-4 tie less likely – the Court is primed to hear some high-profile...

Drugs are a serious problem in Mohave County, Arizona. We are well into the second half of 2017, and since January of this year, drug raids and arrests have been staggering, particularly in Kingman, Bullhead City and Green Valley. These drug busts have involved a great deal of surveillance to mak...

Theres a warrant out for your arrest, and you know about it, and its making you jittery and on edge all the time. You dont want to go to jail, thats certain, but the paranoia is eating at you. Even persons who have been in the spotlight get arrest warrants out for them and refuse to turn them...