So, you’ve been arrested. Smooth move. However, there are several things you can do to avoid making it any worse. First of all, and maybe most importantly, don’t resist. At all. Do what the officer tells you. If you don’t, you could easily turn a misdemeanor into a felony. However, there are a [...]
I was driving to a levy meeting last Monday when I noticed a cop car behind me. Since I wasn’t speeding I didn’t think much of it, until his lights and sirens came on. Long story short, it turns out my tags were expired and I learned a $119 dollar lesson about why keeping [...]
Not a week goes by that I don’t hear some students talking about some party and there never seems to be any impediment to them gaining access to as much alcohol as they want. It’s also all too common to hear about parents who host these parties in the mistaken belief that it’s safer [...]
There’s a very interesting depiction to be found over a gas station in Cleveland. It shows Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, sodomizing Uncle Sam. The caption reads “Don’t worry America, Israel’s got your back.” It is my understanding that someone has filed a complaint and asked that this depiction be removed. This [...]
Whether fair or not, ignorance of the law is never a defense for any crime, from the lowest traffic incident to a felony. On July 1, 2009 a law went into effect in Ohio that states a driver must have their headlights on if they are operating their windshield wipers. There was a six-month [...]
Many of us have taken at least one Government class in High School and have studied a bit of the Constitution. However, few schools offer a class in law, and so we graduate without an understanding of what protections the law affords us when dealing with the police or the court system. Most police [...]
