Criminal Defense

Juvenile Burglaries

In a criminal defense appeals case heard by the United States Supreme Court, the juvenile was a 13 year old special education student in 2005 when the police showed up at his school to question him about a string of neighborhood burglaries.  The police had learned...

When is the 4th amendment implicated?

In a recent criminal defense case the interaction between an officer and the Defendant was a mere "encounter" rather than an investigative detention in Hughes v. State because the officer activated the squad car's white overhead lights rather than the red and blue...

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