Achieving Excellent Results Through Dedication, Teamwork, and Expertise Across Multiple Practice Areas I am very happy to share that we achieved a great outcome in a highly contested multiple-day case. Everyone at Dummit Fradin showed incredible teamwork, dedication, and expertise such that our service pleased our client and we achieved everything they wanted. Importantly, [...]
Improper Turn Leads to Unlawful Search, Seizure, and Possible Deportation? We've all made unfortunate mistakes while driving. Most of us try our best to be safe, obey all traffic laws, and pay attention to the road at all times. However, even with the best of intentions, sometimes we fall short of [...]
From A Car Crash to a DWI Trial: Winning through the Art of Tactical Cross-Examination Facing criminal charges is always stressful, but it's especially difficult when it's a Driving While Impaired (DWI) charge. The consequences can feel overwhelming: the client will have to pay court fines and legal fees, will face [...]
Why Do We Talk About Privacy So Often? When we begin the analysis of a possible suppression motion the baseline question becomes: Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the area searched? This can be a complicated question so let’s break it down: "Reasonable expectation of privacy" is a legal term [...]
Part 2: "Historical Traditions" and the Right to Bear Arms Contributing Author: Criminal Defense Attorney Preston Edwards Contact Us Now Read Part 1: The Gun Control Cases Reverberating Across the US Second Amendment: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, [...]
Part 1: The Gun Control Cases Reverberating Across the US Gun control has been a highly contested and divisive issue in the United States for many years now. Every news cycle seems to bring another tragedy, another horror, another accident, and yet another politician talking about guns and what to do [...]
You Smell Like Hemp. What's the Big Deal? Since the North Carolina Farm Bill of 2018 has been in effect, which created a large number of exclusions so that farmers could grow industrial hemp products in North Carolina, as opposed to the illegal "pot", which contains THC, we have continued to struggle with [...]
Pot. Weed. Marijuana. Mary-Jane. Wacky Backy. Cannabis. No matter what you call it, it's all the same plant. It's been widely used in the United States both medicinally, and recreationally, and for its versatile fibers since our founding. In fact, as early as the sixteenhundreds hemp was grown in colonies around the New World. As [...]
A Typical Commute Goes Awry Driving down our normal paths every day, from work to home, from home to school, from school to work becomes customary, expected, even ordinary. We try to stay alert, we try to stay safe, but these routes become so ingrained in our daily routines that we drive them [...]
¿Puedo Negarme Legalmente a Pasar un Control de Alcoholemia? Si usted es arrestado por DWI, usted no tiene que tomar una prueba de aliento. Pero, si se niega, habrá consecuencias. Si usted se niega a hacer una prueba de alcoholemia en carretera o las pruebas de sobriedad en carretera, usted no se meterá en [...]