If you are like most people, you use your cell phone for everything like texting friends, checking your work email, and organizing your schedule. Your phone has a wealth of data about you and your friends and family. Depending on how connected you are, anyone…
Civil asset forfeiture is the legal term that the authorities use to describe how they confiscate property from suspected criminals. Taking away the profits that people might gain from criminal activities isn’t unreasonable in itself. The problem is, in Illinois the authorities do not need…
For several straight days, individuals in Chicago and across the nation have been expressing their jubilation as well as their dissent over the recent presidential election and in essence, the direction of the country. With a heavily divided nation and regardless of your political affiliation,…
When it comes to criminal defense cases, most people have heard of double jeopardy, but few fully understand it. This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court is attempting to clarify the doctrine of double jeopardy in the case of Bravo-Fernandez v. United States, which may have…
When investigating crimes, the police are increasingly asking people to submit to DNA tests to prove their innocence. Imagine that your neighbor gets murdered. The police knock on your door and ask you to provide a DNA sample. If you know you had nothing to…
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