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DUI lawyers Maryland Can Help You

10th March 2011
In the State of Maryland, Driving Under the Influence of alcohol or drugs (DUI) and Driving While Impaired (DWI) are truly serious legal crimes. Both DUI and DWI can put your living, your driver's license, and in many cases your freedom in trouble. The sa...
Author: Cary Bushman
Legal

A Look At the Criminal Justice System

24th February 2011
A criminal justice system is a set of legal and social institutions for enforcing the criminal law in accordance with a defined set of procedural rules and limitations. In the United States, there are separate federal, state, and military criminal justice...
Author: RyanC
Criminal Law

Prosecution v. Defense And The Constitution That Binds Them

14th January 2011
Note: this is the final part in a three-part series on the criminal justice system. See part one: “Criminal Defense Attorneys And The People They Really Protect”; part two: “Prosecutors And The “Technicalities” That Set Criminals Free.” Very few thing...
Author: Daniel E. Bonilla
Criminal Law

Prosecutors And The “Technicalities” That Set Criminals Free

14th January 2011
Note: this is the second part in a three-part series on the criminal justice system. See part one: “Criminal Defense Attorneys And The People They Really Protect”; part three: “Prosecution v. Defense And The Constitution That Binds Them.” I am sure at...
Author: Daniel E. Bonilla
Criminal Law

Criminal Defense Attorneys And The People They Really Protect

14th January 2011
Note: this is the first part in a three-part series on the criminal justice system. See part two: “Prosecutors And The “Technicalities” That Set Criminals Free”; part three: “Prosecution v. Defense And The Constitution That Binds Them.” At some point ...
Author: Daniel E. Bonilla
Legal

Details About White Collar Crime

08th April 2010
The word white collar crime was first used in 1939 when Edwin Sutherland, a sociologist of the symbolic interactions school gave a speech to the American Sociological Association. In that speech he referred white collar crimes as crimes committed by a hig...
Author: Rudy Silva
Law

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Basic Principles in Criminal Law

29th December 2009
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was created by the Trudeau administration and given constitutional status as part of the Constitution Act of 1982. The Charter contains a list of rights and freedoms that govern the relationship between every i...
Author: Robert Bell
Legal

DISTRACTED DRIVING: A MENACE TO SOCIETY

05th November 2009
Death Cause by Distracted Driving While on Cell Phone Leads to Conviction for Negligent Homicide By Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair. It was an emotional crime, to be sure. The father of the daughter convicted of the c...
Author: Media Masters
Legal

Don't Let Wrongful Conviction Happen to You

07th October 2009
One of the greatest burdens in life is paying for a crime that you did not commit. Wrongful convictions happen everyday. It haunts the criminal justice system of every country like the United States. Wrongful convictions are indicative of failures of the ...
Author: Charlie
Legal

False Accusations in Relationship and Date Rape Cases

15th December 2008
Forcible rape and attempted forcible rape between people who know each other make up a sizeable percentage of the false accusations in the criminal justice system. The cry of rape or abuse is a familiar cry when a relationship goes sour or when a woman ...
Author: Manny Z