Are my rights to a speedy trial violated? The state keeps delaying my bench trial

There are a number of factors that must be considered in evaluating a claim of a speedy trial violation, and your posting addresses none of them....

Can he be charged with an armed robbery if the gun is unloaded? Yes. Can he found guilty and sentenced for armed robbery if the gun was...

Looking to appeal a federal sentencing.

A federal judge is not required to accept either the guideline calculations or the sentencing recommendations in a plea agreement, and I can almost...

Filing withdrawl of guilty plea based on ineffective assistance of counsel in PD office?

Are you asking whether the public defender's office creates a conflict of interest merely by assigning a case to another PD? I cannot see how...

What can I do about a residential burglary charge when I was living at the resident and have keys to the place?

Interesting. Obviously the prosecutor who prepared the charge and any preliminary hearing judge who allowed it to proceed thought that it was a...

DV Victim Pleads the 5th

Contempt is neither a misdemeanor nor a felony and it is not, in the normal sense of the word, a "crime" even though some contempts are "criminal"....

What if a person is wrongfully convicted of a crime. Where it is evident that the defendant was not properly respresented?

The claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is frequently made to challenge a conviction, but only rarely does it succeed. In those relatively...

If you commited a crime and a version amount of years later the police try and charge you for it, is that legal?

Obviously this is a question you should ask your professor. Basically, you are asking about statutes of limitations. Such statutes require that a...

I filed a small claims suit for $2000. Would a corporation be foolish to file an appeal over this amount?

There could be factors beside the amount of money involved that would make a substantial investment in the case worthwhile for the corporate...

Note that I do not practice in Arkansas and am not licensed there, but in most states the time in which an appeal must be initiated is measured in...