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Police officers may need a search warrant if they want to deploy a drug-sniffing dog on your car. Prior to Rodriguez v. United States, the law was unclear about how long an officer can wait before deploying a drug-sniffing dog on a stopped motor vehicle. For example,...
The Supreme Court made it harder (than it was before) to prosecute people for threats made on Facebook, Twitter and other social media. A Pennsylvania man was convicted of threatening another person over interstate lines (under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c)). This was the first...
If an officer asks if he can search your property (your car, your house, your pockets), it means that he knows that he doesn’t have legal cause to conduct that search. Therefore, the only thing that may lay between you and your arrest is your response to the officer’s...
Not long ago, the law in Ohio said that if you were convicted of a single DUI offense at any point in your life, you were ineligible to seal any criminal offense(s) on your record, even if that offense was totally unrelated to your DUI case. Thankfully, the...
Happy Hour is officially back in Illinois. Governor Bruce Rauner signed a bill into law that allows the return of happy hour alcoholic drink specials. Happy hour drink specials have been banned under Illinois law since 1989. The original ban was instituted to prevent...