Plea deal or trial? It’s a decision many defendants have to make. In the United States, plea bargaining is the primary means of ending a felony case. Around 94 percent of state felonies end with a guilty plea, and 97 percent of federal convictions wrap up the same way. The issue with a plea deal is…
What’s the worst thing you can imagine? Is it getting arrested? If you take away bodily threats for yourself and loved ones – that’s usually the next highest fear. Getting arrested is terrifying and the confusing process can hurt your case more than help it. You need a lawyer ASAP, to make sure you don’t…
You made a big mistake at one point in your life – it’s okay, we all, do. But, the problem is the mistake you made is now on your criminal record. This criminal record has affected your life in a variety of negative ways, and you wish there’s something you could do to get rid…
If You’re Being Accused of Insurance Fraud, Here’s What You Need to Do: Insurance fraud is handled differently state-by-state. It can be considered a misdemeanor (less serious) or a felony (severe) depending on the type of fraud committed and the number of damages incurred. In the following article, we’ll be talking more specifically about insurance…
It doesn’t take malice to take someone else’s life. In cases of criminally negligent homicide, all it takes is someone not paying attention when they should be. A person’s poor decision can lead to the end of another person’s life, and when that happens, the courts get involved. No matter how someone’s life ends, their…
You can never truly know who you’re talking to online, which creates opportunities for you to fall into significant legal trouble. If you’re not cautious with who you talk to on the internet, and what you talk about, you can be charged with a felony. The proliferation of apps like Tinder and Bumble has made…
Have you ever woken up to a small cell, a thin pad that barely qualifies as a mattress, wearing clothes that definitely aren’t yours? If you have, you know that this is a decent description of jail. Landing in jail, especially for your first time, can be intimidating, scary, and anxiety-inducing. You may not know…
The current generation of young adults knows to take everything they read online with a grain of salt. Likewise, the drive to make television more honest is almost as old as television; for example, the original motive for producing Sesame Street was to make a television show that used the same catchy tunes and colorful…
When reports first surfaced that Bill Cosby was facing charges of sexual assault, millions of people who had grown up watching Cosby on TV were shocked. He had a reputation for providing wholesome entertainment, whether as Cliff Huxtable on The Cosby Show (arguably the most likable of TV dads of the 80s) or from Picture…
On March 27, 2018, the state of Texas executed 38-year-old Rosendo Rodriguez III, making him the fourth person executed in Texas so far this year. Rodriguez was known in the media as the “suitcase killer” because the UPC code on a suitcase was an important piece of evidence in his capital murder case. The Murders,…
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