Injury & Criminal Law

SERIOUS PERSONAL INJURY

Attorney Nemeth is an Orange County personal injury attorney who handles personal injury cases exceeding $50,000 dollars or more in value. Attorney Nemeth will evaluate your case to see if it meets this criteria. Attorney fees are usually based on a percentage of the recovery. There is no charge for the initial consultation.

CRIMINAL & TRAFFIC

Attorney Nemeth also handles criminal and traffic matters including DMV HEARINGS and Drunk Driving. His rates for the latter cases are very competitive.

Expungement of Criminal Records

In today's tight job market records of criminal convictions can impact hiring decisions. Under the California Penal Code many felonies and most misdemeanors can be dismissed under Penal Code section 1203.4.

Generally speaking after the expungement is filed and approved a criminal record will show up as"dismissed". Therefore a job applicant will legally be able to report he is not been convicted of a particular crime.

There are however a certain exceptions to this rule largely applying to governmental licenses and dealing with new arrests.

Reducing a felony to a misdemeanor

The Penal Code under section 17 allows certain felonies to be reduced to a misdemeanor. This is a very important consideration for most persons has it allows for the restoration of certain rights including the right to vote and be a juror.

If a person is sentenced to probation in a felony matter that can be reduced to a misdemeanor but allows the probation to expire without the felony being reduced to a misdemeanor than the conviction remains as a felony. Again not all felonies are a reducible under section 17 of the Penal Code. Additionally a person sentenced to state prison can not have the felony reduced to a misdemeanor.

Early termination of probation

Persons sentenced to probation do not necessarily have to serve the entire period of probation. It is possible to petition the Court to terminate probation prior to the stated probation period.

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