The pandemic changed the real estate game, and now scammers are taking advantage and counting their profits Much of the buying and selling now is being done virtually with Zoom replacing in-person meetings, online home tours and digital signing of documents with states allowing notarizations…
Florida felons will not get the opportunity to vote in the state’s primary election in August after the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to weigh in on the fight over the issue, at least not yet. The decision did not include a written ruling. The…
A recent study by the American Academy of Pediatrics makes a direct correlation between distracted driving laws and fewer fatal crashes among all age groups. That includes drivers 16 to 24 years old for whom the number one cause of death is fatal vehicle accidents.…
Legal Examiner reporter Katherine Snow Smith interviewed Professor Richard S. Frase from the University of Minnesota Law School to get his breakdown and analysis of the charges against the four police officers involved in George Floyd’s death. Frase is a criminal law professor and co-director of the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice as well as the founder and co-director of the Institute’s Sentencing Guidelines Resource Center. Derek Chauvin, the officer who held his knee on Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes, is charged with second degree murder while commiting a felony, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
As the world follows the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, questions arise about how this extremely high profile case will play out in court. Will a plea agreement keep it from even going to trial? How will a judge seat a jury of 12 fair and unbiased jurors? What tactics will the prosecutor and defense take?
There are several qualifications for having a record of arrest expunged or sealed, but the proliferation of data companies today means arrests aren’t buried nearly as deeply as they once were.