Of the many consequences that follow an arrest and conviction, the negative impact on your career and future employment opportunities can often be the most difficult to put behind you. As a matter of course, most employers conduct credit and background checks of prospective employees, including seeking information about the potential employee’s criminal history.

On July 16th, a federal judge in California held that state’s death penalty system to be unconstitutional. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney held that California’s system was so arbitrary and plagued with delays (about 40 percent of the state’s death row inmates have been there for more than 19 years) that it “violates the […]

If you’ve been arrested and incarcerated, your first concern is likely getting yourself out of jail as quickly as possible while you work with a criminal defense attorney to develop the best defense strategy in your case. Once you have secured your release on bail, you no doubt want to stay out of jail. But […]

In addition to the various changes to the criminal code that went into effect on July 1, 2014, there were a couple of other areas of law that also underwent significant changes. The confidentiality of paternity actions was one of those changes, and the revised law will go a long way towards decreasing both confusion […]

I wanted to take a quick side-step from criminal law issues to speak about the issues surrounding the biggest legal news to come out of Indiana in several years.

If you are like 90% of Americans, you are carrying a cellphone or smartphone right now. It may contain everything from your calendar, to your browsing history, to financial information, to personal or intimate e-mails or text messages. If you’re arrested, the police will search you and no doubt find the cell phone you are […]

“Teenagers are good at making bad decisions.” This point, which is obvious to any parent of a teenager or anyone who used to be a teenager, was recently made by Todd Warner, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology at the University of Virginia. The bad decisions Warner was specifically referring to are the choices made by […]