Criminal Defense Law Blog

Accepting responsibility for his actions, which criminal defense attorney Robert G. Stahl told the media represented, “a terrible error in judgment,” Dias Kadyrbayev pleaded guilty to obstruction and conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing. UMass-Dartmouth foreign exchange student Kadyrbayev comes from a former eastern bloc country, and…

A humorous television commercial that ran years ago featured a man for whom the day had gone very badly. One thing after another went wrong for him; at the end, his young son came to him and said, “Telephone for you, Daddy! What does it mean, IRS?” In the real world, of course, hearing from…

Dias Kadyrbayev Indictment, Boston U.S. District Court August 2013 Dias Kadyrbayev, a student at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, was indicted Aug. 8, 2013 by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction for allegedly disposing of evidence to help surviving Marathon bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev. Defense attorney Robert G. Stahl has…

Attorney Robert G. Stahl Represents Dias Kadyrbayev, Exchange College Student From Kazakhstan Charged With Obstruction in the Boston Marathon Aftermath Interviewed by RTVI, Russian TV Attorney Robert G. Stahl, of the Stahl Gasiorowski Criminal Defense Lawyers in New York and New Jersey, was interviewed by the Russian-language network RTVI in April 2014. Stahl is the…

Most Union County taxpayers have no reason to fear a federal IRS tax fraud charge. The reason is that less than one percent of taxpayers are the subject of allegations of tax fraud that result in a conviction in any given year. But tax fraud does happen. In fact, 75 percent of income tax fraud…

One of the earmarks of the steady expansion of government at the New Jersey state level and the federal level is that more and more laws and regulations make it easier to find yourself in violation of them. It is similar to walking through a minefield: the more mines that are laid in your path,…

Each year, taxpayers in Union County and throughout New Jersey file income tax returns that they prepared themselves or had an accountant or tax professional prepare for them. According to the federal IRS, about 17 percent of taxpayers will not comply with the tax laws, but failing to comply with the tax code might not…

Sometimes you may hear about “due process” in connection with your rights in the criminal justice system. But what exactly does that mean, and what are its sources of authority? In this and some of our future posts we will address due process generally as well as its core opponents. The root of due process…

The “right to a speedy trial” is grounded in the Sixth Amendment. But this amendment provides much more than a requirement that the government not unduly delay a criminal trial. Below we break down the protections that this important part of the Bill of Rights includes. In summation, the Sixth Amendment gives criminal defense attorneys…

This post is the third in our series covering due process in criminal law actions. In the first two posts we addressed the concept of due process rights generally, and the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in particular. In this post we will examine the Fifth Amendment. Although it is only a single paragraph…