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Question:
What are my rights if I get arrested?
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You have the right to remain silent. If you talk to the police in an effort to "straighten things out" or to "tell your side", that statement could turn into evidence against you. You have a ...[Read more]
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The Bolinger Law Firm is the oldest firm in Kokomo, Indiana. It was established in 1947 by Donald J. Bolinger. Since that time, we have provided the people of North Central Indiana with a wide range...[Read more]
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February 23, 2010
School District Accused of Spying on Students via Home Webcams
By: Shannon Duffy
It may sound like a Hollywood pitch for a summer movie aimed at teens, but it's taken directly from the pages of a federal lawsuit filed in Philadelphia that spins a tale of high school teachers secretly installing cameras in hundreds of students' homes to spy on them.
The class action suit, Robbins v. Lower Merion School District, alleges that 1,800 students were provided with laptop computers equipped with webcams which -- unbeknown to the students or their parents -- c...
February 23, 2010
Appeals Court Reverses Homicide Conviction for Leaving Overdose Victim on Lawn
By: Mark Fass
An upstate New York appeals panel has thrown out the negligent homicide conviction of a man who, after a woman overdosed on heroin and passed out in his car, dropped her off on the lawn of a trailer park.
The woman, who was unconscious but breathing when defendant Carl Erb pulled her from his car, died in a hospital after she was discovered two hours later.
The unanimous Appellate Division, 4th Department, panel found that the woman was no worse off on the lawn than in Erb...
March 2, 2010
'Miranda' Dealt One-Two Punch by High Court
By: Tony Mauro
It has not been a good week for the famed Miranda warning at the hands of the Supreme Court.
In decisions issued on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Court ruled that confessions should be admitted at trial even when police interviewed suspects in circumstances that lower courts viewed as Miranda violations.
The Court on Wednesday issued Maryland v. Shatzer (pdf), establishing new, more permissive rules for police who want to question a suspect for a second time after the suspec...
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