We live in an interconnected world, with social media and social networking - Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and other tools - providing the world with much more information about each of us. Such an interconnected world means that information about you that you may consider "private" may, in fact, be public. Here's a rule of ...
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Raleigh DWI Lawyer: Drugged Driving Looms as a Problem
The New York Times has an extensive front page article on the problem of drugged driving. While it's long been illegal to drive while impaired - whether by alcohol or any other impairing substance - in North Carolina, law enforcement has focused on catching and prosecuting people who are impaired by alcohol. ...
Tax Implications of an Embezzlement Raleigh
Embezzlement can have multiple different aspects. First, there is the harm caused to the victim - employer, owner, company, corporation, state agency - caused by the embezzlement Raleigh. Second, there is the loss of trust. Because embezzlement occurs where one person has been entrusted with assets - money, goods, accounts, credit cards ...
Embezzlement Raleigh: Blaming You for Everything!
In tough economic times, embezzlement becomes and even more common crime. North Carolina embezzlement law defines the crime as the taking of money or things of value that have been entrusted to an employee, clerk, officer, or other agent by the alleged victim. A Raleigh embezzlement case typically involves an employee - someone with access ...
Prison Rates in the United States
In the United States we like to think we're a free and peace loving country, and that may be true. But the United States consistently has some of the highest incarceration rates in the world. Is this because Americans are more criminal than other people? Probably not. This may be because ...
Stopping Embezzlement Charges in Raleigh. Putting and end to Shrinkage Criminal Claims
Avoiding prosecution for embezzlement is one of the things I do as part of my practice as a criminal lawyer in Raleigh. I deal with clients who either have left an employer and have been accused of stealing from the employer, or have been accused of stealing and have been fired. In either ...
Nuke it from Orbit, It’s the Only Way to Be Sure: Cybercrimes and Criminal Law
We live in a digital world. Unfortunately, many criminal defense lawyers simply do not understand the details of technology. How data is transmitted, how it is stored, how it is archived, and where it might be. What's more, many criminal lawyers do not understand how the details of how data is stored, archived, searched, ...
Modifying Bonds in North Carolina
I'll paraphrase a question I recently was asked: My son has a $500,000 bond trying to get it reduced. He as a court appointed lawyer. I need to know the steps to getting a bond reduction and how long does it take. These are not steps you should take. They are steps his lawyer should take. Basically ...
Berghuis v. Thompkins – New Developments in Miranda
I posted a short video explaining the impact of the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Berghuis v. Thompkins. I explain how the ruling makes it important for anyone being questioned by police to firmly, but politely, insist on having an attorney present, and on remaining silent.
New Developments in Miranda law
Since 1966, the Supreme Court has had to reinterpret Miranda law. Miranda law first was developed in a 1966 case - Arizona v. Miranda - in which the Supreme Court ruled that when a suspect is interrogated in custody, the police must read him his rights. And if he invokes his rights, the ...