{"id":2099,"date":"2012-10-10T20:52:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T20:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/getting-theft-case-reduced-or-dismissed-by-errol-cook-esq\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:48:08","slug":"getting-theft-case-reduced-or-dismissed-by-errol-cook-esq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/getting-theft-case-reduced-or-dismissed-by-errol-cook-esq\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting a Theft Case Reduced or Dismissed by Errol Cook, Esq."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flockoflegals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/errol_cook_esq2.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-352\" title=\"errol_cook,_esq2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flockoflegals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/errol_cook_esq2.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Being charged with a <a title=\"theft-related offense\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southerncaliforniacriminalattorney.com\">theft-related offense<\/a> can be devastating to one&#8217;s career and future employment opportunities.\u00a0 Theft convictions can also result in deportation, exclusion, denial of naturalization and other serious immigration consequences.\u00a0 Usually defendants without attorneys take the first offer (plea bargain) on the table from the prosecution or judge.\u00a0 Since the neither the prosecutor nor the judge can give you legal advice, a pro-per defendant is usually left guessing as to what they should do.\u00a0 Whether that offer involves jail, Cal Trans or some form of community service depends on the amount of the loss, the number of <a title=\"prior theft convictions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.errolcooklaw.com\">prior convictions <\/a>and, of course, the prosecutor and judge.\u00a0 Generally, most lawyers will attempt to get the charges reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor or from a misdemeanor to an infraction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Errol Cook, Esq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being charged with a theft-related offense can be devastating to one&#8217;s career and future employment opportunities.\u00a0 Theft convictions can also result in deportation, exclusion, denial of naturalization and other serious immigration consequences.\u00a0 Usually defendants without attorneys take the first offer (plea bargain) on the table from the prosecution or judge.\u00a0 Since the neither the prosecutor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[305,336,337,338,339,22,6,68,340,35,81,201,341,202,63,342],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-criminal-law-blog","tag-airport-courthouse-criminal-lawyer","tag-airport-courthouse-theft","tag-bellflower-courthouse-criminal-lawyer","tag-bellflower-theft-attorney","tag-beverly-hills-theft-defense","tag-criminal-defense","tag-criminal-law","tag-deportation","tag-disneyland-theft","tag-failure-to-appear","tag-felony","tag-grand-theft","tag-jc-penny-theft","tag-petty-theft","tag-sentencing","tag-walmart-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5534,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/5534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}