by Aaron Lee | Jul 11, 2013 | General
In order to stop a vehicle a police officer in North Carolina need only have reasonable suspicion as established in State v. Styles, 362 N.C. 412 (2008). A police officer who makes a visual estimate of speed and believes a vehicle is speeding may be able to articulate...
by Aaron Lee | Jul 11, 2013 | General
As you may be aware, North Carolina passed a law last year that required law enforcement to immediately arrest teenage drivers for certain traffic infractions. The reason for this law is to expedite the process to have the driver’s license revoked. What happens is the...
by Aaron Lee | Jul 11, 2013 | General
In order to initiate a traffic stop police must have at minimum reasonable suspicion to believe that a crime is or has been committed. Reasonable suspicion is not a high threshold to meet, however there are situations in which this threshold is not met. A common...
by Aaron Lee | Jul 11, 2013 | General
Not necessarily. Usually when charges are pressed against someone it is up to the District Attorney to decide if the charges will be dropped before the case gets to trial. Just because the person who may have initially pursued pressing charges against someone has...
by Aaron Lee | Jul 11, 2013 | General
If police pull someone over and suspect the driver is intoxicated the officer will ask the driver to complete field sobriety testing. After the field sobriety testing the officer may ask the driver to blow into an alco-sensor to determine what the driver’s BAC (blood...
