What Is the Federal Safety Valve? The safety valve provision under U.S. Sentencing Guidelines §5C1.2 allows a judge to impose a sentence below the mandatory minimum if the defendant: The defendant has no more than four history points The offense did not result in death or serious bodily injury to any person The defendant did […]
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In criminal cases, evidence is everything. But not all evidence is fair game. If law enforcement violated your rights while gathering that evidence, your attorney can file a motion to suppress to keep it out of court. This motion is a powerful tool for leveling the playing field when the government overreaches. If you’re being
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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
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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
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