South Carolina drug offenses can cause all kinds of personal hardship. They can affect your employment or your enrollment in college. They could make you ineligible for professional licensing and damage your reputation. All too often, those facing drug charges plead...
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How can you recover after serving time for a conviction?
When you have an arrest and conviction in your past, you may believe that it’s difficult to get your life back to normal. You may not be sure about how you will fit back into your community or live a normal life. It might be hard to find a job or difficult to obtain...
Don’t let a DUI derail your career
Not only can criminal convictions cause trouble in your personal life, but they also have the potential to impact your career prospects. A DUI conviction is no exception. However, people are wrongly convicted of criminal offenses all the time. Even if you have made a...
Protect your business by defending white-collar charges
White-collar crime takes on a different nature than most other offenses. Typically, the most frowned upon offenses involve some form of physical harm, which white-collar offenses do not. Nonethelesswhite collar crimes still have a serious impact on victims, thus, the...
You’re accused of fraud: What defense options do you have?
Fraud happens when one person deceives another for their own gain. Fraud can take multiple forms, including forging documents or signatures, writing a bad check, making a false insurance claim or using another person’s identity or credit card without their consent. ...
If your roommate has drugs, you could face arrest
You don't use any illegal drugs yourself. You've never even smoked marijuana. You barely drink, and that's legal at your age. However, you live with roommates who are far more interested in these activities than you are. You know that they generally have illegal...
Understanding GPS monitoring as an alternative to incarceration
If you plead guilty to or are convicted of a crime in South Carolina, you may be able to avoid spending time behind bars, even if that’s one of the possible sentences you could receive. One alternative is GPS monitoring. Most people associate this with wearing an...
What’s at risk when you self-medicate to get through your day?
Many people picture career criminals and unemployed adults when they think about drug addiction. However, one of the most painful lessons from the opioid epidemic has been that addiction knows no age group, class or profession. People with chronic pain, a history or...
How does a judge decide on a sentence?
Judges sometimes make the news because of the sentences they hand down in criminal cases. They can cause a public outcry when they give someone a lenient sentence or because people consider a sentence too harsh. The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) sets...
2 groups of people are at elevated risk of mortgage fraud charges
Financial fraud comes in many forms. Mortgage fraud is arguably one of the most common. After all, many parties benefit from a successful real estate transaction, meaning that different people in a transaction have an incentive to influence it fraudulently. What two...