Criminal Law

Loss calculations under federal sentencing guidelines often determine a defendant’s fate more than any other factor in white collar or fraud cases. If you’re facing charges in Arkansas federal court, understanding how loss is computed can help you and your defense attorney challenge inflated or unfair estimates. At Ludwig Law Firm, our federal criminal defense […]

In Arkansas criminal defense cases, the standards of probable cause and reasonable suspicion can make or break the outcome. These constitutional benchmarks decide whether a police officer’s actions were lawful. If an officer stopped you at a checkpoint or searched your property without meeting the correct standard, the evidence could be thrown out. At Ludwig

If you were stopped by police, briefly questioned, or frisked without a warrant, you may have experienced what the law calls a “Terry Stop.” Named after the 1968 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Terry v. Ohio, these stops are meant to allow law enforcement to act on reasonable suspicion without violating the Fourth Amendment—but they