Charlotte Criminal Lawyer Blog
Charlotte DWI Lawyer Brad Smith answers: A past conviction is keeping me from finding work what can I do?
The mother of a Pennsylvania third grader has learned, in an indirect way, the ages-old axiom that “good facts make bad law.”
Civil suits against officers, municipalities, costing taxpayers millions, paper reports
J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “Should I ever plead guilty to a charge?”
While media reports of protests and rioting in Baltimore, Maryland and elsewhere have been inescapable in recent weeks for anyone who follows the news, the costs to taxpayers of violent encounters between police officers and the citizens they serve have been more elusive—tucked into files in state and federal courthouses or sealed behind nondisclosure agreements.
Advocates want to give officers the authority to search records of non-suspects
J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “Can I be arrested without evidence against me?”
Domestic violence advocates and the family of a young woman murdered in east Charlotte last month are asking that officers with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department be given the authority to check a database showing criminal convictions from other states of persons not suspected of criminal activity.
Security agency may have ability to make searchable transcript of all phone conversations
J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “Should I talk to the police?”
Nothing on the internet ever really goes away, conventional tech wisdom holds. A person types out an email and hits “Send,” and the words can never be taken back; and what’s more—even if the email is deleted, it can be retrieved.
Justices appear poised to strike criminal law due to unconstitutional vagueness
Charlotte DWI Lawyer Brad Smith answers the question: What are the long term effects of being convicted of a crime?
Observers at oral argument before the United States Supreme Court say high-court justices were so confused by provisions of the Armed Career Criminal Act that they appeared poised to declare clauses in the act—or the Act itself—unconstitutionally vague.
Brain research on the cutting edge of criminal-law developments
Charlotte DWI Lawyer Brad Smith answers the question: What are the long term effects of being convicted of a crime?
People far older and wiser than me have told me a person can stay young at heart if one never allows oneself to lose the kind of childlike fascination with even the everyday, mundane matters of life. Of course, the older we get, the more jaded we become, the more ordinary things seem, and the greater the tendency becomes to accept the world as it is, to question nothing, to stare straight ahead and move along.
State Highway Patrol resists release of dash-cam videos in criminal cases
J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “Can I be arrested without evidence against me?”
Local news outlets are abuzz over the deployment of officer body cameras in two divisions of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
Lumber Liquidators facing criminal conservation act shakedown
J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “Should I ever plead guilty to a charge?”
An American retail flooring company is facing criminal charges for alleged violations of Chinese law.
Supreme Court curtails use of drug-sniffing dogs in traffic stops
J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “Should I talk to the police?”
Last week the United States Supreme Court held that law-enforcement officers may not prolong traffic-stop investigations in order to allow police canine units to sniff vehicles for drugs.
Sheriff’s office defends reserve deputy who shot, killed fleeing suspect
J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “If I have an outstanding warrant, what should I do?”
The Tulsa Sheriff’s Office was aware as early as 2009 of issues involving a reserve officer’s behavior in the field and special treatment he received during training, according to the Daily Mail and CBS News.