Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “What are the long term effects of being convicted of a crime?” Many people have heard of the sleep drug Ambien (also known as zolpidem) and may also have heard stories about bizarre behavior linked to taking the prescription medication. Though these…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “A past conviction is keeping me from finding work what can I do?” Law enforcement officials in South Carolina announced a major raid on a huge cockfighting ring in McBee, SC this past weekend. The cockfight attracted dozens of people to the…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “What are the long term effects of being convicted of a crime?” A recent article in a Colorado newspaper discussed the current movement here in North Carolina to change the state’s laws regarding juvenile criminal offenders. As it stands now, 16 and…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “What are the long term effects of being convicted of a crime?” A 19-year-old student from the University of North Carolina Greensboro is currently facing serious criminal charges after campus police say she was discovered with $13,000 in fake money. A search of…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “What are the long term effects of being convicted of a crime?” Police in Salisbury, NC say that a convicted felon has escaped a minimum security prison in the area and is currently on the lam. Authorities say that they have locked down…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “What are the long term effects of being convicted of a crime?” Three teenage boys in Tobaccoville, North Carolina are now facing serious criminal charges after police say they received a tip that the trio had burned an opossum alive and videotaped the…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “What are the long term effects of being convicted of a crime?” A tragic case in Lincolnton, North Carolina reached its end after a Superior Court Judge dismissed charges against a man related to the April deaths of two young children. The decision…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “Should I talk to the police?” A recent editorial in the Winston-Salem Journal took the North Carolina Medical Examiner System to task for its many problems, making the important point that law enforcement cannot be fairly or judiciously run on the cheap. The…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “Do I need to hire an attorney if I have been falsely accused?” In a terribly bizarre case with North Carolina connections, a Baptist minister from Virginia has been sentenced to two year in prison for staging a fake hate crime attack on…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “A past conviction is keeping me from finding work what can I do?” Officials with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission announced that they had arrested a man for a rather bizarre crime: trading in illegal reptiles. Though selling reptiles may not seem…