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In our last blog post, we discussed a recent issue that has come up in South Dakota, where police are forcing drivers suspected of operating a vehicle under the influence (OUI) to provide a urine sample. If these drivers refuse, police have obtained a warrant to get one, and if

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When it comes to investigating drug crimes, police can be very pushy. They tend to be overly concerned with the fact that drugs pass through your body over time. This means that evidence that you’ve broken the law – evidence of THC levels or your blood alcohol content (BAC) –

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When police are investigating a potential crime, they have a lot of tools at their disposal. One of the most powerful, however, is your consent. If you consent to a search, then it doesn’t matter how unlawful that search is, or how much it violates your rights. Because you allowed

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One thing that often surprises people who get arrested for something is how many crimes they end up being charged with. One action can break numerous laws, and law enforcement will throw the book at you, charging you for everything that they can think of. While some of these charges

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Laws have a unique way of evolving as time goes on. When the legislature – whether the Maine State Legislature or the U.S. Congress – creates a law and passes it, the words that they put in that law are always going to have a certain amount of ambiguity. Inevitably,

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