Unfortunately, law enforcement finds many ways in which they can detain and charge you for a drug related crime. Let us consider just a few of these in this blog. State and federal drug charges are serious - the latter being more so. At the national level there is a veritable ‘alphabet soup’ of organizations [...]
When you think of Cyber Crime several stand out. Cyber pornography. Sending malware to destroy businesses' and individuals' computers. Cyberbullying. Identity theft. Stealing information from people's computers. Does downloading information without paying for it really deserve to be lumped in with the others as a federal crime? Yes, according to the entertainment industry, which has long been at [...]
Your Miranda rights, you’ve heard them read on television a million times and probably know them by heart, but do you know when you must be given these rights? Do you know when you have them? Just for some background, the Miranda Rights were spawned from a 1966 Supreme Court Decision involving a defendant named Miranda. [...]
A very distraught gentleman recently came in to our law offices after learning he was being investigated for possession of child pornography. Under Ohio law, this crime is called Pandering Obscenity Involving a Minor, a fourth degree felony in Ohio. If convicted, he would face 6-18 months in prison on each count plus registering as a [...]
In Ohio, like every other state the difference between a state and federal crime is whether you have broken a state of Federal law. If you broke a federal law, then you have committed a Federal offense. Common examples of federal crimes Tax Crimes: Including tax evasion, fraud, and public corruption. Violent crimes: Including kidnappings, child [...]