Every encounter with the police involves hundreds of variables. This guide cannot cover all of those variables but instead is designed to teach you how to stay safe and protect yourself during a police encounter and to educate you about some of your Constitutional Rights. 1. Stay Calm/Stay Safe The key to any citizen/police encounter is to stay calm and stay
» Read moreMany popular television shows bounce around the phrase “material witness.” What exactly is a material witness? A material witness is on who is needed to testify in a criminal case or before a grand jury investigating a criminal matter. If you have been subpoenaed to testify in a criminal case, and you fail to appear, the party who subpoenaed you
» Read moreDid you know: The Department of Driver’s Services can and will suspend your drivers license if you are stopped for a suspected DUI and you either: Blow over the legal limit (0.08 for adults over 21, regular class C), You refuse to submit to a breathalyzer The DDS suspension is civil and is separate and apart from the DUI arrest itself.
» Read more“Homicide” is really a term of art used by the medical examiners in the course of a death investigation. Medical examiners are doctors who have specialized training in determining how a person died. The major ways a death can be classified are: natural causes suicide accident undetermined homicide The term “natural causes” means the death occurred as the natural
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