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Generally speaking, you have a right to privacy in your home, your garage and elsewhere on your property. If the police want to search that property, they need to get a warrant. Exceptions do exist for crimes in progress and things of this nature, but warrants are...
If you’re stopped by the police and they ask you to take a Breathalyzer test, it’s a good idea to understand how these tests work and how they come up with their final readings. There are specific testing requirements that officers must abide by, and those...
A city like Atlanta is home to people from many different countries, backgrounds and walks of life. There are pockets of crime in certain neighborhoods and virtually none in others. It shouldn't surprise you that the many different law enforcement agencies here in...
Often, people who find police officers at the door assume that they have to do whatever those officers say. The idea that the police are in authority runs deep. When the officers ask to come inside and talk to you or have a look around, you feel like you have no...
The last few years have seen a significant campaign to prevent the phone company Huawei from installing 5G internet in the US. As the company is Chinese, opponents claimed the Chinese government would take this data to spy on you. Yet, what many do not realize, is...
If you’re stopped by the police, it’s important that you don’t say or do anything that might implicate you in a crime. Some people do, because they say too much, end up talking themselves into a conviction or making it much harder for them to defend themselves....
According to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution a DeKalb County resident was at a McDonalds and got into an altercation with a store employee at the drive thru window. The employee then went outside to confront the man, assisted by another employee who came along to...
Time and again we answer the question of “why are the prosecutors so Hard on DUI arrests, I have never been in trouble before!” Events that occurred on May 29, 2021 in Sandy Springs provide another insight and example of why prosecutor's seem so difficult with DUI...
You may not know what you can and cannot do if the police stop you while driving. If you always abide by the law, you may not have seen any reason to learn about your rights. Yet, each year people find themselves facing criminal charges that would never have occurred...
A citizens' arrest is when one member of the public "arrests" another. Lawmakers gave people the power to do this over a century and a half ago in order to prevent people escaping from slavery. However, last month Georgia lawmakers repealed the state’s citizens'...