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You’ve been charged with shoplifting. What’s going to happen next? The first and best piece of advice I can give you is you really should get an attorney. People think, “It’s shoplifting. Is it really that big a deal?” It really is a big deal. This type of behavior costs

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Getting convicted for a crime is a life-changing event. However, just how life-changing it can be is determined in the next part of the process: Sentencing. This is where the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishments, comes into play. However, exactly what amount to punishment that’s “cruel and

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In a refreshing sign of the times, the Justice Department’s Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates released a memo on how to better handle eyewitness identifications. These identifications are the basis for many arrests and eventual criminal convictions, and yet are fraught with inaccuracies and manipulations. By issuing the memo, Ms.

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In recent years we have been hearing a lot about hate crimes. However, exactly what constitutes a hate crime is not often obvious, is rarely explained, and can be difficult to understand. Unfortunately, every crime has the potential to be a hate crime, depending on who it was committed against,

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Driving to endanger in Maine Can I get a driving to endanger charge if I have also been charged with an OUI? There’s a common misconception out there that driving to endanger is an automatic drop down from an OUI. Driving to endanger is a Class E misdemeanor punishable

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