Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts… Does the government have to produce a live person or will a piece of paper do? Melendez-Diaz stands for the proposition that admission of hearsay statements in the form of a lab analysis violates a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to confront the witness against him and question
We had a rather difficult hearing yesterday on what is a simple issue: did the police officer have reasonable suspicion of impairment in order to require my client to perform field sobriety tests? Unfortunately, the answer was yes. In Maine, the officer doesn’t need much to stop you and he
This is an extremely important question and one which causes a lot of trepidation amongst my clients who elect to go to trial. One of the advantages of a negotiated outcome is that you take the “unknown wildcard” out of the equation. The wildcard is the judge and the unknown
The legal term for sentencing a convicted criminal is not required to serve is called a suspended sentence. A suspended sentence is handed down during the sentencing portion following a plea or a trial. The judge presiding over a trial has the authority to decide whether or not to suspend
The number one rule when dealing with the police is DON’T TALK TO THE POLICE! See, it’s a really simple rule that is easy to remember. From the time we were children, we were conditioned to listen to, respect, and respond to law enforcement officers. When a law enforcement officer
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