There are good criminal lawyers out there, particularly in Apex, Cary, and Raleigh, North Carolina. And there are good reasons to talk to a criminal lawyer if you think you might be the subject of a criminal investigation. 1) A criminal lawyer will advise you not to talk to police, not to talk to any…
A pretty shocking story out of Michigan: It’s no secret that Michigan is enduring the most extreme effects of the nation’s economic crisis: its unemployment rate stands at 15.3%, and the state is functioning on a temporary budget as legislators rush to close a $2.8 billion deficit. In recent years, the financial situation here has…
So you think you might be in trouble. And you think you need a lawyer. Do you? The answer is: better safe that sorry. Look, no one wants to waste money, especially on an lawyer. But talking to a lawyer is absolutely crucial early in a case. I’ve talked to a number of potential clients…
I had a debate with a friend at lunch today about lie detectors. He argued that lie detectors, even if they’re mostly nonsense, are at least valuable because they “sometimes” detect a lie. I said lie detectors are not just nonsense, but actually really powerful tools in the hands of police departments. It’s not because…
Ryan Curry is a police officer in Marlin, Texas. He works as off-duty security for local clubs. He also has a Facebook page. He recently posted a picture to his Facebook page (allegedly taken by another police officer) showing a person who had urinated in his pants after being tasered. Under the picture, Curry wrote…
Raleigh, Cary, Apex, and Fuquay-Varina criminal lawyers generally operate out of downtown Raleigh offices. That’s because in North Carolina, court systems are countywide. If you are charged with any kind of offense – misdemeanor, felony, or traffic, you will end up at the Wake County Courthouse in Raleigh. And if you are detained before trial,…
North Carolina has dozens of different kinds of assaults. Assaults are crimes that involve either violence or the threat of violence that case injury or intend to cause injury to a victim. Even if no touching occurs – the attacker misses, or the attacker stops short of hitting the victim – an assault may have…
Investigative reporter Radley Balko writes about Bernard Baran, a man convicted in the 1980s of child molestation charges. In 2006 he was released on bond after an appeals court ruled that his trial attorney had been incompetent and that the prosecution withheld exculpatory evidence. The problem with child molestation charges is that they’re difficult to…
Most people think that if you blow below a .08 on the breathalyzer, that you can’t be convicted of drunk driving. Not true. In North Carolina and, now, all states, a .08 blood alcohol level is per se drunk driving. That means that, provided the jury believes that you blew a .08, that the machine…
For years, lawyers have charged clients on an hourly rate. The rate was fixed, but the hours were not. So the case could take 2 hours, 202 hours, or 1002 hours, and the client would have to pay for all of those hours billed to the case. For years criminal lawyers have used flat-fee-billing. The…
