Dropping Criminal Charges

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 changed their mind...

Anonymous Tip and Arrest

The North Carolina Court of Appeals found in State v. Harwood how an anonymous tip can amount to reasonable suspicion for the police to make a seizure.  In the original decision it was held that police were justified in handcuffing a Defendant where an anonymous tip...

Search Warrant Exceptions

Generally police must obtain a search warrant before they can legally search someone’s home or search their property.  As with most topics in the law there are exceptions to the search warrant requirement.  The most common exceptions that police use are the search of...

Concealed Weapon

So maybe you have been pulled over.  You may either know or not know why you have been pulled over by police but one thought in your mind is that you have a gun in the car and you are not sure how to approach the subject.  Depending on what jurisdiction you are in it...