When you’ve been charged with a criminal offense, it’s important that you seek the counsel of a criminal defense attorney, but you also need to know your rights. Your lawyer may be able to help you understand some of these rights, but you can also help yourself by familiarizing yourself with certain basic concepts. Right [...]
Admit it. You pay attention to celebrity happenings as much as anyone else. Who knows why, but we all seem drawn to famous people, their loves and lives. In most cases, it’s kind of like watching a fire or a train wreck. You know it really isn’t in good taste to watch as celebrities marry, [...]
Recent events in Boston reflect a problem that seems to be facing the nation on a larger scale as well, with accusations flying from both sides of the fence over whether each gets enough funding. State prosecutors in Massachusetts are throwing accusations that the state is spending way too much money to fund their district [...]
Getting accused of a crime can be an extremely devastating thing. In many cases, you might get judged in the “court of public opinion” long before you ever have a trial. More than one person has lost friends and become estranged from family just because they were falsely accused of breaking the law. In many [...]
One of the most important guarantees in our national and state laws is that, if we can’t afford to hire a criminal defense attorney, we will be provided with one. This is a tradition that goes back to our nation’s founding, and to a belief that everyone has a right to their due process under [...]
