The Impact of a DWI Conviction on Your Record

Everyone getting a first-time DWI worries about the effect on their record. This is natural. A DWI conviction on your record can damage many areas of your life and even hinder your future. For some people, the most important thing is keeping a conviction off their record. If…
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How Criminal Charges Are Filed in Missouri

Maybe you got pulled over, were involved in an altercation, or had one too many to drink. Whatever the case, you had contact with law enforcement, and now you find yourself waiting for the other shoe to drop: the filing of criminal charges in Missouri. Depending on the…
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How Your Cell Phone Can Send you to Prison

We all have little computers in our pockets. Cell phones. They’re so convenient. You can look at Facebook while you’re in line at the grocery store, pay your bills, and mindlessly scroll your life away. They can also send you to prison. Everything about a cell phone is…
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Legal Mythbusters: Miranda Rights

Before Miranda v. Arizona, police could question you for as long as they wanted without knowing your rights. That led to many false confessions because people didn’t understand those rights. Those rights include the right to remain silent and the right to have an attorney present at questioning.…
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Can Probation Help You?

I meet with many clients whose primary concern is, am I going to jail? Am I going to lose my license? How will this affect my job? And I get that. Those are good questions to ask. But I usually follow up with a piece of information they…
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