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Q:   CAN SOLICITATION OF PROSTITUTION constitute probable cause TO search A CAR ?  MY FRIEND WAS INVOLVED IN A PROSTITUTION STING AND HIS CAR WAS SEARCHED , AND THE POLICE FOUND A PIPE. A:  Yes. This is almost certainly either a search incident to arrest or an inventory search, either / both of which are…

Q:  During a trial what goes on in the courtroom when the Jury is at Recess??  For instance, the defense attorney often requests to the judge for the jury to go to break, and usually the judge agrees and tells the jury that there has some work to be done in which you cannot hear.…

Q:  What does adjudicated not guilty mean?  I plead to solicitation of a minor. And a friend informed me in my case it states adjudicated not guilty. What does that mean? A:  I think that you have wrong / incorrect information.  It is legally impossible for you to both enter a plea and have a…

There is “Life” After DUI (and many other arrests): Don’t Wallow in Misery or Self-Pity… “{Wo}Man-up” Joe Rogan (of “Fear Factor”, “UFC”, stand-up comedy, et. al.) has it right when he said: “W” had a DUI and it didn’t stop him from being elected President of the United States (twice). Also, while serving as President…

Why the Goodfellas “Greatest Lessons in Life” are sooooooooo Important (that, and, that, and, why you should never take rides from strangers):  In “Goodfellas”, after a young Henry Hill was arrested, interrogated, booked, taken before a Judge  and ultimately walked from the Courtroom free and clear, Jimmy Conway reportedly said to him:  “You’ve just learned…

From “Detective of the Year” to “Former Detective turned DUI Defendant”…  Now former Lakeland Police Department Detective Billy Joe Lane has now formally “retired” from law enforcement as a consequence of his September, 2014 misdemeanor “simple” DUI arrest (“retired” is in quotes because Billy Joe only turned in his badge after a disciplinary investigation and review had…

Why was Joshue Holoman on the Sunoco rooftop at 3am tar-stained and with burglary tools? After a call to police reporting suspicious sounds, at about 3am Tuesday (10/07/14) morning, Joshue Holoman was found atop a Daytona Beach Sunoco gas station, tar stained and in possession of burglary tools. Naturally, being found on the roof, at that…

Fraternities and Flamingos / Pledges and Lemmings / Courts, Cops and Curators… Props to the University of Southern Mississippi for indefinitely suspending the Delta Mu Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha (PIKE) Fraternity as well as 19 y/o pledge / student Devin Nottis for all of their (the Chapter’s collective and Devin’s individual) stupidity in connection…

Michael Adam Haber

This is an excellent example as to why eye-witness identification is inherently unreliable: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” (~ A. Einstein) “Creative defense lawyering demands the skilled…