April 2014 Archives

When you are charged with robbing a bank, that is a federal crime. There is no way around it. All banks are federally insured, which means the perfectly planned bank heist can end up with the federal government and its aggressive and skilled prosecutors gunning for you.

I doubt people wake up in the morning and wonder how they will get arrest today. Yet, time after time, people get arrested under the strangest circumstances.

Sometimes a serious of events can lead to unexpected results.

When you have one too many and decide to go behind the wheel, you can easily take a life no matter how well you think you can handle your alcohol. 

Drunk driving commercials and posters are all over the place to warn us about the dangers it causes. Too many lives have been taken by someone driving a car while intoxicated.

One minute you are a Facebook friend, the next minute you become a murder suspect. 

When you are a high school teacher you are dealing with impressional students day in, day out. There are some great days, like when you help a student achieve academic success. But there can be days that will make you want to bury your head under the covers and never come out. 

When Colorado made marijuana legal for recreational use, some believed that they were hoping up a "pandora's box" full of weed. What's been opened instead are less crimes for possession, prisons with less non-violent criminals and $14 million within the first month of legalization. Which added over $2 million of tax revenue into the state.

There's no way to sugarcoat a story about child neglect. While defense attorneys must protect their clients from doing any prison time, when you hear a tale like this one, it makes the job at hand much more difficult. 

What could be worse than forgetting you left a $50 bill? How about having it lead to you being arrested for possession of drugs?

Prescription drug use has become second nature in our society. Even when someone is abusing them, that person never feels like they are committing a crime. After all, a pharmacist is not a "drug dealer".

Being at the wrong place at the wrong time. It sounds like the start of an action flick, but this can happen in real life to any one of us. For a man in Ocoee, FL, this exact situation might apply.

If you are suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol, you may be requested to take a breath test. Although this is optional, breath test refusal can lead to the automatic loss of your driving license. However, there are many reasons you might feel unwilling to take a breath test. Such was the case for one man in Florida recently.

You trust them like a family member. When your most trusted employee steals from you it shakes your confidence and makes you wonder who that person really was all along. But what if there is more to the story?

It's one of the most nerve-wracking life experiences. Seeing a police car pull up behind you, flashing their lights, blasting the siren. Even if you know you've done nothing illegal, you still feel like a criminal. 

Car accidents leave you with a queasy feeling in your stomach. It's a nightmare of figuring out who is at fault, exchanging insurance info, etc.

No matter what business you are in, you are always rubbing elbows and networking. Yes, even if you are involved in the "oldest profession". 

Different people react to alcohol in different ways, and the amount required to affect an individual's behavior varies from one person to the next. This can make it difficult to ascertain how much a person's judgment may have been impaired by intoxication. However, limits are enforced by law to discourage people from driving under the influence. In Florida, the legal limit for blood alcohol content is 0.08.