J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “Should I talk to the police?” A man after a woman’s heart may be prone to a bit of puffery, but legislators in New Jersey want to criminalize that puffery when it rises to the level of deception.…
J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “Should I ever plead guilty to a charge?” The axiom that “The truth shall set you free” is, in my opinion, a bit overused and often used out of context. The quote—from the eighth chapter of the Gospel…
J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “Can I be arrested without evidence against me?” Five years after he was issued two criminal summonses by a New York City police officer for alleged trespassing and disorderly conduct, twenty-four-year-old Sharif L. Stinson is the lead plaintiff…
J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC responds to “The person that called the police doesn’t want to press charges, can I still be prosecuted?” A twenty-two-year old Florida man brought a scene from Joel and Ethan Cohen’s 1998 feature film The Big Lebowski to life last week…
Charlotte DWI Lawyer Brad Smith answers: A past conviction is keeping me from finding work what can I do? The mother of a Pennsylvania third grader has learned, in an indirect way, the ages-old axiom that “good facts make bad law.” Pennsylvania is home to Pennsylvania State University. The…
J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “Should I ever plead guilty to a charge?” While media reports of protests and rioting in Baltimore, Maryland and elsewhere have been inescapable in recent weeks for anyone who follows the news, the costs to taxpayers of violent…
J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “Can I be arrested without evidence against me?” Domestic violence advocates and the family of a young woman murdered in east Charlotte last month are asking that officers with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department be given the authority to…
J. Bradley Smith of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “Should I talk to the police?” Nothing on the internet ever really goes away, conventional tech wisdom holds. A person types out an email and hits “Send,” and the words can never be taken back; and what’s more—even…
Charlotte DWI Lawyer Brad Smith answers the question: What are the long term effects of being convicted of a crime? Observers at oral argument before the United States Supreme Court say high-court justices were so confused by provisions of the Armed Career Criminal Act that they appeared poised to…
Charlotte DWI Lawyer Brad Smith answers the question: What are the long term effects of being convicted of a crime? People far older and wiser than me have told me a person can stay young at heart if one never allows oneself to lose the kind of childlike fascination…