What can I wear to jail?
When an occasional client has to go to Rappahannock Regional Jail for a few days, they sometimes wonder what clothes they can wear. If you wear white undergarments underneath your street clothes when...
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Understanding Official Misconduct & Obstructing Governmental...
Being charged with and arrested for any misdemeanor crime in New York is no walk in the park. A New York criminal defense attorney need not advise you of this obvious fact. The reality is, any...
View ArticleCan An Attorney Help Me Avoid Criminal Charges?
Every so often we have clients who make the incredibly smart decision to talk to us before they have been indicted. In these situations we are often able to do what might seem like the impossible –...
View ArticleBusinessman and Attorney Found Guilty of Loan Fraud
Hussein "Sam" Nazzal, 58, Dearborn, Michigan, a businessman, and Edward A. Schneider, 59, Dearborn, an attorney, were found guilty of multiple counts of fraud and commercial bribery after a three-week...
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Seventh Circuit Reiterates the Importance of a Suspect Invoking Right to Counsel
In United States v. Hunter, officers stopped a truck after they witnessed occupants apparently engaging in a drug deal. Hunter fled from the passenger seat with something resembling a gun in his hand....
View ArticleNews Roundup
Since tomorrow’s a holiday for many, including me, this week’s news roundup comes a day early. The lead story is the apparent crumbling of the video sweepstakes industry. Major software vendor...
View ArticleSixth Circuit panel grants habeas relief to Tennessee defendant sentenced in...
Sadly, I no longer get ample opportunities to blog about Blakely Sixth Amendment sentencing issue these days -- though I suppose this could change if (and when?) the Supreme Court give these issues a...
View Article"Buzzkill? Cash-strapped states eye pot tax"
The title of this post is the headline of this lengthy new article in Politico. Here are excerpts: Now that voters in Colorado and Washington have legalized recreational marijuana use, dope smokers...
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March Madness, Sweet Sixteen Open Thread
The investments today: Syracuse +6 over Indiana, Arizona +4½ over Ohio State, Marquette +6 over Miami Florida, Wichita State -4 over La Salle. Currently 25-21 ATS, +15 units, for March Madness. Open...
View ArticleCrime Laboratory Delays May Prejudice DWI Defendants
The North Carolina crime laboratory and other local laboratories perform about 10,000 blood toxicology analyses annually. The majority of these tests involve impaired driving cases; and, unlike breath...
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FITCHBURG ARMED ROBBERY DEFENDANTS NEED EXPERIENCED DEFENSE COUNSEL
It was early morning in Fitchberg. It was a Cumberland Farms store. It was a Massachusetts armed robbery. And a state trooper was nearby. Trooper Donald Gray was in the vicinity of 367 River Street, at...
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Evan Rodriguez, NFL Player, Arrested in Miami Beach, Florida for Resisting...
Evan Rodriguez, an NFL player for the Chicago Bears, was arrested in Miami Beach, Florida on Wednesday after he allegedly interfered with a police investigation following an accident, news sources...
View ArticleIs it a crime if my orthodontist may have done something to cause me to start...
Free legal answers from attorneys - I'm losing my teeth and the doctors told me this could have only happened in 2 ways, I was born with it or my orthodon
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Mary Suppa LaPeter of Hollywood, Florida Arrested for Driving Under the...
Mary Suppa LaPeter of Hollywood, Florida was arrested Sunday after she was accused of performing dangerous stunts using a damaged jeep in a residential intersection, news sources report. LaPeter, 51,...
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Monmouth County Traffic Wreck Results in Drunken Driving Charges for...
It seems that every time one turns around in this state there is another DWI or DUI-related traffic accident reported on the web, in the papers or on the local news. As New Jersey drunken driving...
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Bill to Send Sex Offenders to Prison Fails in Committee
Failing to register as a sex offender is a serious crime in California. Since 2011, violating Megan's Law has been punishable by up to 180 days in county jail. According to a news report in The Los...
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MASSACHUSETTS LAW ENFORCEMENT GIVE UP MANHUNT FOR DRUG SELLING SUSPECT IN...
Sometimes, Massachusetts criminal investigations go underground or are put off for another day. Here is a case about an alleged drug trafficker and his apparent slip through law enforcement’s fingers....
View ArticleWhat is delayed jail reporting, and how can I get it?
If you’re facing possible jail in Virginia, the judge has the authority to confine you to jail but order you to report directly to the jail some time after you’re actually found guilty of the offense....
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Miranda and the Consent to Assume Online Presence
--> Some years ago, I did a post in which I analyzed the then-two reported cases I could find that involved law enforcement officers’ using a “consent to assume online presence” to gather evidence...
View ArticleCA11: Fourth Amendment protects arrestees against gratuitous uses of force
The district court properly denied summary judgment on qualified immunity that officers were at best negligent in running his head into a door while carrying him into the jail which he was in a hobble...
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