Criminal Defense Law Blog

If you were arrested in Las Vegas recently, you need to know what not to do on social media. Given how popular social media platforms have become, social media evidence in criminal cases has now become relatively common. In other words, it is not out of the ordinary at all…

Las Vegas Domestic violence charges can be devastating and embarrassing both personally and professionally. Often an accused will do anything to make these criminal charges go away even if he or she is innocent. As a result, many individuals charged of domestic violence will plead guilty without realizing all the…

Whether the person calling 911 wants their significant other to go to jail or not, the police already know, before they even arrive, that they are arresting someone. For the police, it is just a matter of who it will be. If you were arrested for domestic violence, battery causing…

Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), one of the largest electronic dance music festivals in the world, starts this Friday, June 17, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since its inception in 1996, EDC has become world-renowned for its marquee acts, emerging artists, circus-style performers, and Las Vegas-style party atmosphere. The three-day music…

March Madness, the NCAA college basketball tournament, starts this week. March Madness is the college equivalent to the NFL Super Bowl. Fans from all over the flock to the tournament, which is hosted in Houston, Texas, this year. Those fans, who are unable to attend the tournament in person, attend…

Prescription drug dependency and abuse has become a nationwide health epidemic claiming approximately 50 lives each day and over 16,000 lives each year. Compared to national averages: Nevada ties as one of the top states in writing painkiller prescriptions Nevadans consume over two times as many prescription drugs as any…

Studies show that automobile accidents, specifically those involving fleeing the scene or hit and runs, have been on a steady increase on a national scale for the past few years now. To no surprise, hit and run incidents occurred most often in larger suburban cities. And more often than not,…

Under NRS 484C.160, Nevada’s implied consent law previously allowed a police officer to use “reasonable force” to obtain a warrantless sample of blood from the person who refused to consent. After the most recent changes in the Nevada DUI laws, now an officer can only make the request that the driver…

Synthetic drugs are not a particularly new problem, but it appears they are becoming a bigger one. On August 8, the Las Vegas Sun published an Associated Press story discussing the increase in synthetic marijuana use in New York City. The AP spoke to a 47-year-old homeless man identified as…