by Michelle Sparrow | Apr 13, 2015 | Criminal Law Blog, Misdemeanors
North Carolina is not home to a major league baseball team, but we are the home of the fictional Durham Bulls, the minor league team at the center of one of the best sports movies ever made. And we have our professional football, basketball and even ice hockey teams... by Michelle Sparrow | Apr 6, 2015 | Criminal Law Blog, Misdemeanors
We are finishing up our discussion of an accident in Rhode Island. The driver of a public transit bus may face criminal charges after his bus struck and killed a young pedestrian. In our last post, we talked about the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority’s... by Michelle Sparrow | Apr 3, 2015 | Criminal Law Blog, Misdemeanors
We are looking at an accident in another state, this time Rhode Island. A public transit bus struck and killed a 9-year-old girl as she walked to school. There don’t appear to be any new developments in the case since our March 30 post, with the small exception... by Michelle Sparrow | Mar 30, 2015 | Criminal Law Blog, Misdemeanors
We are casting our net a little wide of North Carolina today to talk about an accident that occurred in Rhode Island. To date, there are no criminal charges (the accident happened on Thursday, March 26), but there may be. And we know of no civil action, though there... by Michelle Sparrow | Mar 2, 2015 | Criminal Law Blog, Misdemeanors
We are talking about tax evasion, or the willful attempt to avoid paying a lawfully due tax. As a refresher from our last post, it’s a felony, and you can land in prison for as long as five years. The question, of course, is how the IRS figures out that someone... by Michelle Sparrow | Feb 27, 2015 | Criminal Law Blog, Misdemeanors
We say it often, but it bears repeating: In criminal law, intent is almost everything. You may knock someone out in a bar fight and find yourself in jail. If the prosecutor can prove that you hit the guy intending to kill him, you are facing much more serious charges....