Law Talk: Contemporary Criminal Law

Our guest Atty. Patrick Tomasiewicz of the Hartford law firm of Fazzano and Tomasiewicz talked about numerous aspects of contemporary criminal law that people often don’t understand fully, such as Victim’s Rights,  Diversionary Programs, Plea Bargaining, Prosecutorial Discretion, and the Sexual Offender Registry.  Listener calls included a man who called in to tell us how the advice we can given him on a previous show about dealing with unauthorized robo-callers and merchants turned out very well for him.  Also, a woman had questions about the tax consequences of a survivor “inheriting” money from a bank account of which she was the joint owner