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The Family and Offender Sentencing Alternative: Our Most Under-Utilized Tool in the War on Crime

September 9, 2019/in Criminal Defense Law Blog, Criminal Sentencing/by Chris Van Vechten

The Parenting Sentencing Alternative allows some nonviolent offenders the opportunity to avoid prison, or get out of prison, in order to parent their children.

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Convicted on a Technicality: The Manipulations of the Law to Maximize Consequences to Minor Offenders

May 1, 2017/in Criminal Defense Law Blog, Criminal Sentencing/by Law Office of Chris Van Vechten
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The Need to Decriminalize Some Forms of Theft

January 13, 2017/in Criminal Defense Law Blog, Criminal Sentencing/by Law Office of Chris Van Vechten

The Law Office of Chris Van Vechten would like to propose passing a law creating a new category of theft that constitutes an infraction and mandating that State and Municipal Prosecutors may charge select acts of theft as infractions instead of crimes.

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Adult Sentencing Guidelines for Washington State

March 13, 2016/in Criminal Defense Case Log, Criminal Sentencing/by Law Office of Chris Van Vechten

Chris Van Vechten breaks down the Washington state adult sentencing guidelines and the Sentencing Reform Act.

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How Easily You Can Be Charged with Burglarizing Your Own House

March 11, 2015/in Criminal Defense Law Blog, Criminal Sentencing/by Law Office of Chris Van Vechten

It surprised you to know that in most states, in some situations, people can be charged with burglarizing. Here is the real burglary violence event…

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