Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “Are breath test results always accurate?” In an odd drunk driving case out of Charlotte, a judge in Mecklenburg County recently accepted a plea deal for a driver only several hours after another judge rejected the identical deal. The plea deal involved…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “What happens if I am convicted of a DUI or DWI in North Carolina?” The Los Angeles Police Department made a surprising announcement recently when an official revealed that officers would begin carrying portable devices that can check drivers for drug use. Officials…
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: “What are the long term effects of being convicted of a crime?” A man from Georgia has filed a criminal complaint concerning bad checks that were passed using his checking account information which have made their way around several grocery stores in 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: “What are the long term effects of being convicted of a crime?” A 26-year-old teacher with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools was arrested earlier this week and stands accused of taking indecent liberties with a student. Officials say the man, David Cale Allison, was employed at…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “What is the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony?” A range of new laws went into effect earlier this month, some that stiffen penalties and others that actually reduce jail time for some offenses. The new laws, which were implemented on December…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “What happens if I am convicted of a DUI or DWI in North Carolina?” Officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department say that they have issued more than four-dozen charges to drivers in connection with an overnight checkpoint Saturday and early Sunday morning. Police…
Attorney J. Bradley Smith answering the question: “Is there more than one way for police to convict a DWI?” Law enforcement officials have announced that a recent raid of a nightclub in Selma, North Carolina resulted in 17 people being arrested on a range of charges from drugs to prostitution.…