It’s Friday the Thirteenth so I thought the strange crime of the week would be a good topic. A L.A .County Sheriff’s deputy was arrested for smuggling drugs into the county jail. How is why it’s strange. The deputy put heroin into a burrito and brought into the jail. Evidently , he was already under
A warrantless search of a car or truck in Tennessee is usually prohibited , however there are exceptions to this rule. If a police officer can demonstrate probable cause that a car might contain marijuana , a police officer can search a car or truck. The big question is whether the smell of marijuana is
Nashville’s WLPN radio has been reporting on some of the new criminal laws that went into effect at the start of the New Year . Tennessee has created a new class of reckless endangerment charges. Senator Mark Norris spearheaded the new law based upon the drive by shootings that occur in Memphis, Tn. The new law
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam announced a new plan to increase punishment for certain crimes . One of these proposals is to increase jail time for those convicted of domestic violence.Gov. Haslam based his plan on a recent study that ranked Tennessee fifth in the nation in the rate its women are murdered by men.
The image above is a lab tech sorting blood alcohol samples into a rack. I now know why that’s important due to a class I took last year. DUI lawyer Justin McShane posted an article about the details of the class on gas chromatography on his blog. The point that Mr. McShane makes is that