Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “A past conviction is keeping me from finding work what can I do?” A terrible recent story out of North Carolina seems to support the idea that no good deed goes unpunished. According to news reports, 20-year-old Lewis James Little, a sophomore…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “The person that called the police doesn’t want to press charges.” Train robbery sounds like the kind of crime that went the way of the steam engine. Though times have changed and robberies are no longer being perpetrated on horseback, train robberies still…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “If I simply intend to plead guilty, why do I need a lawyer?” In a bizarre criminal law case out of Salisbury, North Carolina, police say one would-be bank robber made a series of mistakes that led to her being quickly apprehended. The…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “If I simply intend to plead guilty, why do I need a lawyer?” In a new and bizarre example of how some North Carolina criminals do the dumbest things, two men from Greensboro are in hot legal water after being charged with stealing…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “If I simply intend to plead guilty, why do I need a lawyer?” A recent news report revealed that far too many crimes are occurring at the Charlotte CATS transit center. The bus station in Uptown has become something of a hangout destination…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “Should I ever plead guilty to a charge?” A pharmacy in Gastonia, NC was burglarized last week just an hour before the shop was due to close. Cameras on the premises of Akers Pharmacy show the man as he broke through the glass…
According to a recent article by WCNC, a federal judge has sentenced a Goldsboro, NC man to 176 years in prison for his role in multiple robberies that took place across several months in eastern North Carolina. The U.S. Attorney’s office announced earlier this week that Domonic Devarrise Usher had…
A recent report on WBTV.com sited a recent series of robberies perpetrated by a man wearing a Frankenstein mask. The alleged burglar wore the mask as he robbed four Charlotte, NC area gas stations. Police believe the same man is responsible for at least three other convenience store robberies in…
According to an article on WCNC.com, fifty-one year-old Keith Allen Murray was arrested Thursday morning on University City Boulevard after he removed his electronic monitoring bracelet over the weekend. He was found by police while they were searching for Eric Dwayne Jones, another fugitive that had removed his electronic monitoring…
According to a recent article on WCNC.com, one Charlotte man was recently arrested in connection with the robbery of a BB&T branch in south Charlotte. Investigators are saying that the man may be connected to as many as three other bank robberies that have occurred throughout the city this summer.…