Criminal Defense Blog | Dummit Fradin

Greensboro North Carolina Attorneys Achieve Outstanding Results Through Teamwork Across Multiple Practice Areas

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, [...]

Greensboro North Carolina Attorneys Achieve Outstanding Results Through Teamwork Across Multiple Practice Areas

Improper Turn Leads to Unlawful Search and Deportation?

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 [...]

Improper Turn Leads to Unlawful Search and Deportation?

From Crash to DWI Trial: Winning With A Tactical Cross

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 [...]

From Crash to DWI Trial: Winning With A Tactical Cross

A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy and Your 4th Amendment Rights

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 [...]

A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy and Your 4th Amendment Rights

Chaos Reigns in the Courts: Gun Control and Your Rights Pt. 2

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, [...]

Chaos Reigns in the Courts: Gun Control and Your Rights Pt. 2

Chaos Reigns in the Courts: Gun Control and Your Rights Pt. 1

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 [...]

Chaos Reigns in the Courts: Gun Control and Your Rights Pt. 1

Stop and Sniff? The Legality of Hemp Odor

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 [...]

Stop and Sniff? The Legality of Hemp Odor

Biden Aims High: Past Marijuana Use Pardoned

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 [...]

Biden Aims High: Past Marijuana Use Pardoned

Driving is Risky Business: Go with the Flow or Impede Others?

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 [...]

Driving is Risky Business: Go with the Flow or Impede Others?

DWI for a Local Guy but the Numbers Just Don’t Add Up

A Bad Day Just Gets Worse With an Unjustified DWI Imagine you’ve had a hard day at work, and you stop for dinner, a little bite after a bad day. We’ve all done it. Perhaps you’ve decided to have a drink with your food. You’re an adult, it’s legal. You aren’t impaired in [...]

DWI for a Local Guy but the Numbers Just Don’t Add Up