Before Miranda v. Arizona, police could question you for as long as they wanted without knowing your rights. That led to many false confessions because people didn’t understand those rights. Those rights include the right to remain silent and the right to have an attorney present at questioning.…
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I meet with many clients whose primary concern is, am I going to jail? Am I going to lose my license? How will this affect my job? And I get that. Those are good questions to ask. But I usually follow up with a piece of information they…
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Alternative sentencing is a fancy legal term for coming up with something else to do with somebody. A lot of times if somebody has very little criminal history, or it’s a very weak case and the prosecutor knows it's a weak case, we start looking at different options.…
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We have a holiday coming up in Missouri, the 4th of July, and usually, around the holidays, I get asked many questions about open containers and what you should and shouldn’t do. Obviously, I have a criminal defense firm, and that's because people do get DWIs. So I…
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So, you’ve gone to court for a DWI; you likely have a lot of questions. What happens to my license? When does this come off my record? What do I need to do to make the court happy? Now what? My firm will send you a letter and…
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