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A Quick Look at Sobriety Checkpoints   – You’re cruising along late Friday night, headed home after a nice dinner with some friends.  All of a sudden you notice flashing lights up ahead.  As you get closer you see police officers amongst cones and barrels, directing some approaching vehicles into a parking lot as part of a sobriety checkpoint or roadblock.  Depending on the luck of the draw, you may be directed to pull over for…

Teen Sexting – An Epidemic as Well as a Criminal Offense In this blog, the Indianapolis Criminal Defense Attorneys take a look at sexting. While the exchange of erotic information and/or pornographic material from one person to another has been going on for decades, with the advent of technology (specifically smartphones), the ease at which one can do it has grown exponentially. This has become ever so present not just amongst consenting adults, but midst…

Indianapolis Criminal Defense Attorney Blog:  Should I Speak to a Detective if they Call to Question Me? It is a question our office receives all the time.  Person calls and says, “A detective called me and wants to ask me some questions about a situation, and I don’t know how I should respond.”  In almost all circumstances you should respond by speaking to an attorney first. In this blog the Indianapolis Criminal Defense Attorneys at…

Controlled Expenses: What are they and who pays them?  – Controlled expenses—a term most of you have probably heard if you’re going through a divorce and have young children.  But, what exactly are they?  The Indiana Child Support Guidelines establishes a standard of support for children and, as part of that standard, certain factors are taken in to account that affect the ultimate amount a non-custodial parent is obligated to pay in child support.  In…

A Quick and Concise Guide to Possession of and Dealing in Cocaine:  – Most people are at least somewhat familiar with cocaine, and you have likely seen the movie Blow or an episode of Drugs, Inc. documenting the drug trade and the use of cocaine.  Cocaine use is dropping, especially compared to drugs like marijuana, but it is still prevalent and still makes billions of dollars a year for the drug cartels who supply it. …

Possession and Dealing in Methamphetamine No matter how you have become familiar with the term “meth,” it’s hard to argue against the growing exposure of our culture to it. For anyone that has gone to the drug store to purchase Sudafed, an over the counter cold medicine often used to make meth, often times you are met with stringent purchasing requirements and often times strict scrutiny by the pharmacist. Why? Because methamphetamine use and abuse…

A Look at Possession and Dealing in Heroin   In this blog the Indianapolis Criminal Defense Attorneys at Banks & Brower take a look at possession and dealing in heroin. Before we take a look at the crimes of possession and dealing in heroin we will look at a little background information on the drug itself.  According to the National Institute on Drug abuse, “Heroin is an opioid drug that is synthesized from morphine, a…

You’ve Received a Complaint against your Professional License:  Now what?   Are you a licensed professional?  Have you ever received a letter from the Office of the Indiana Attorney General regarding a professional complaint?  If you have, I’m sure you are desperately searching the internet for answers. We are glad you landed here. Regardless of the field, if your chosen profession requires licensure then you’re subject to certain statutory standards of care that you must…