A Former Prosecutor Fighting For Your Rights In State And Federal Courts
If you are arrested for a misdemeanor or felony in Oklahoma, your due process rights means that you will have the right to a trial in which your guilt must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt before you can be convicted for the crime. This is your chance to dispute...
One of the most closely watched trials in recent years was Bill Cosby’s 2017 trial for sexual assault. Observers waiting for either a not guilty or guilty verdict got neither when the jury could not agree on a verdict and the judge declared a mistrial. Which...
Many times arrests for drug and gun offenses, among other crimes, happen after the police have stopped a car and asked to search the car, and the driver has allowed the police to do so. For most people, when a police officer pulls them over and asks to search the car,...
If you are working in Oklahoma and hear mention of “the SEC,” your mind might first go to our beloved Sooners’ fierce gridiron rivals at Alabama, Auburn, and LSU. But if the SEC - short for the Securities and Exchange Commission - comes knocking at...
As numerous states, especially those in the west, have moved to decriminalize marijuana possession for medical and/or recreational uses in recent years, the state of Oklahoma has not budged on its strict criminal laws against the recreational use of marijuana, which...
Police and prosecutors may have collected evidence against you in building a criminal case, but that does not necessarily mean that the evidence they have collected - whether anyone thinks it make you seem more guilty or not - can necessarily be used against you in...
There are many good reasons to want to hide a criminal record from your family members and employers, both present and future. Your past criminal conviction doesn’t need to define you forever, and it makes sense that you want your family and others to think the...
If you can get through your whole life without having to understand the difference between a misdemeanor and a felony, then that will mean you have avoided trouble, but if you are facing the prospect of either a misdemeanor or felony charge, then understanding the...
Being convicted of a drug crime in federal court has never been a good thing, but the consequences of a conviction will be a whole lot worse for defendants under a new policy ordered by new Attorney General Jeff Sessions, reversing the Obama-era leniency towards those...
