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…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “If I simply intend to plead guilty, why do I need a lawyer?” In a bizarre episode, police in Raleigh say that the man caught on camera breaking into the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences over the weekend has surrendered to authorities.…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “A past conviction is keeping me from finding work what can I do?” A South Carolina woman with passionate tastes in music allegedly stabbed her roommate multiple times after the 64-year-old man refused to stop playing the Eagles on repeat. According to police…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “What is an expungement?” A new law signed last week by North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory will allow students at public universities in North Carolina to hire an attorney to help guide them through the difficult and confusing process of handling disciplinary charges.…