According to the Department of Transportation, there were nearly 55,000 Wisconsin convictions for unbuckled seat belts in 2015. Over the Memorial Day Weekend, more officers will be mobilized to issue citations to unbelted motorists and their passengers, noting that half of last year’s car crash fatalities were drivers and passengers not wearing seatbelts. The 2016… Read More »
Archives for May 2016
Racine County Marijuana Grow Operation Results in Arrest
A Racine man with a hydrophonic grow operation consisting of 38 live marijuana plants and clones was arrested earlier this month and charged with the manufacture of T.H.C., possession of T.H.C. as a repeat drug offender, keeper of a drug place for manufacture, possession of drug paraphernalia and 2nd degree reckless endangerment because a small… Read More »
Wisconsin Stop and Frisk | Unreasonable Search & Seizure Criminal Defense Law
Every American citizen has the constitutional right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. Sometimes the events leading up to an arrest fall into question with regard to how a stop and search was conducted. A couple of recent incidences of what is being dubbed as ‘police testilying’ regarding police procedures have made the… Read More »
Waukesha Juvenile Arrest
As a product of the peak “tough on crime” years of the 1990s, many states adopted the practice of automatically handling 17-year-olds as adults in the criminal justice system. Nine states hold this view, while two states, New York and North Carolina, charge 16-year-olds as adults. As a result, many kids face some adult-sized consequences… Read More »
Cyberbullying in Wisconsin
We have all read the unfortunate accounts regarding teens and young adults using social media, email or text messages on their phones or computers to ridicule, harass or threaten others in an act of cyberbullying. In Wisconsin, bullying, including the cyber variety, is sometimes punished under school policy, but it can also be prosecuted under… Read More »