The Defense Never Rests
Although Operation Blue Thunder might sound like a promising summer adventure movie, it actually signified something quite different last month in Indiana. Ditto Operation First Step. Those dual designations applied to massive drug enforcement campaigns in different...
With our increasingly Internet-connected world, people put themselves at risk in new ways each and every day. From paying bills online to sending personal data in something as innocuous as an email to a friend – that information is not as secure as it once was. As...
Technological advances have changed the way we communicate, the way we work; even the way we may be accused of committing crimes. New criminal charges are emerging and it is important to have an awareness of how these charges work to better ensure that we do not...
Stop Solitary for Kids is a campaign that focuses on alternatives for children and teenagers housed in juvenile detention centers. Through public awareness, staff training, and local, state and federal policy and legislation models, the initiative’s goal is to end...
WhiteYou certainly don’t have to be convicted of a violent crime to be sentenced to a prison term in Indiana or anywhere else across the country. In fact, a criminal conviction on a white collar crime charge can often bring about the same result, with incarceration...
At first blush, the emphasis regarding a criminal law evidentiary issue that has been thrust into public prominence recently is, unsurprisingly, where it might squarely be expected to be. Namely, that is on alleged crime victims, specifically, those who are...
At some primal level, you’re all over the Miranda rights. That is, and especially if you’re of the age demographic that was weaned on television cop dramas, you know they apply to certain police-citizen interactions, often need to be uttered at some point by...
The “fight of your life.” That is how we refer to the ordeal facing any individual in Indiana or elsewhere who is squared off against criminal authorities in an investigation alleging a sex crime. Although there are statutory codes as thick as telephone books...
Sexual assault is a serious offense and one of the more common sex crimes is rape. This form of sexual assault, however, can fall into a wide variety of sub-categories such as date rape, statutory rape or marital rape. Marital rape, often referred to as spousal rape,...
Many things are evident in the realm of criminal charges relating to drug offenses in Indiana, including, centrally, these two realities: the list of illicit drugs and the types of charges concerning them is long, and the sentencing outcome in a given case can be...
