As surprising as it may sound, the U.S. Constitution does not contain an express right to privacy. To remedy this scary fact, the Bill of Rights was born out of the need to establish boundaries upon which government could not infringe without certain explicit...
Have You Been Charged With A Serious Crime?
Month: March 2015
Yates v. United States – Context is Everything…
This blog entry is intended to highlight a part of the law that usually confuses people - words. Please read it as a cautionary tale, keeping in mind that sometimes it takes the Supreme Court of the United States to determine the meaning of a statute in a criminal law...
Drug Smuggling: What You Should Know
Drug smuggling has been a part of American culture for a long time. Drug use took off in the late 1960s when middle class Americans changed their perspective on drug use, taking it from taboo to fashionable. Drugs became an appendage of social rebellion and protest...
Government Mass Surveillance: A Myriad of Threats
Mass surveillance in the United States invokes too-close-to-home trepidation of a totalitarian "Big Brother" surveillance state. For most people, the inescapable surveillance state depicted in George Orwell's dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, seemed just that --...