What happens if I receive a suspended or deferred sentence?
The overcrowding of Oklahoma’s state prisons has for many years negatively affected not only those serving time but also society as a whole. This overcrowding was a main driver behind recent...
View ArticleNew Oklahoma law targets repeat DUI offenders
One of the hallmarks of the criminal justice system, not only in Oklahoma but throughout the United States, is the “repeat offender / revolving door” phenomenon: a disproportionate number of criminal...
View ArticleCan Hand Sanitizer Result in a False Positive Breathalyzer Result?
The point of using a hand sanitizer is not just to wash your hands, but to kill germs on your skin. To accomplish this purpose, many hand sanitizers use ethanol as their active ingredient. As you may...
View ArticlePrison Overcrowding In Oklahoma Still A Problem Despite Recent Reforms
Oklahoma has an earned reputation as a tough-on-crime state; only one other state in the union has a higher proportion of its citizens in prison than this one. But even if one agrees with the premise...
View ArticleHow Can You Defend Yourself Against the Use of DNA Evidence?
The use of DNA evidence as a tool to implicate people accused of crimes must rank as one of the most momentous advances in criminal justice technology since the development of fingerprint evidence in...
View ArticleAre Wearable Alcohol Monitors the Future of DUI Prevention and Detection?
Most people associate alcohol testing with breathalyzers or blood draws, but a comparatively new technology that detects alcohol as it leaves your body through your skin is set to take a more...
View ArticleThe Problem With Touch DNA
It began in 1993. A series of crimes occurred in Germany, several of them violent, including six murders. Police were at a loss to identify a suspect, but thanks to DNA evidence collected in connection...
View ArticleHow can I be charged with murder when I wasn’t there when it happened?
Let’s say (hypothetically, of course) that you have fallen in with the wrong crowd, and they persuade you to drive them to a place where they plan to commit a robbery. While they are committing the...
View ArticleThe Drunk Driver Database is Here
One of the consequences of living in the information age is that more and more details about you are available to, and being gathered by, the government at both Federal and state levels. Sometimes this...
View ArticleIs Your Fitness Tracker an Undercover Police Informant?
You may already know that if the police want to track your comings and goings, your cell phone has become the digital equivalent to a bloodhound. Because it communicates in the background with nearby...
View ArticleHow can I be charged with murder when I wasn’t there when it happened?
Let’s say (hypothetically, of course) that you have fallen in with the wrong crowd, and they persuade you to drive them to a place where they plan to commit a robbery. While they are committing the...
View ArticleThe Drunk Driver Database is Here
One of the consequences of living in the information age is that more and more details about you are available to, and being gathered by, the government at both Federal and state levels. Sometimes this...
View ArticleIs Your Fitness Tracker an Undercover Police Informant?
You may already know that if the police want to track your comings and goings, your cell phone has become the digital equivalent to a bloodhound. Because it communicates in the background with nearby...
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