Sep 28, 2017 | Criminal Defense, Drug Charges, Fourth Amendment
One minute you’re driving down the highway minding your own business. The next minute, you’re being detained on the side of the road as a police officer is asking for permission to search your vehicle. Don’t the police need a search warrant to perform vehicle searches...
Sep 14, 2017 | Criminal Defense
Last week, the S.C. Court of Appeals reversed a Lexington, S.C. conviction for murder and armed robbery based on the testimony of a criminal profiler. In State v. Prather, the Court of Appeals dodged the issue of whether a criminal profiler’s testimony should ever be...
Sep 13, 2017 | Criminal Defense
Last week, I wrote about the Polk County Sheriff’s announcement that if any person with an outstanding warrant sought shelter from the hurricane they would be arrested: If you go to a shelter for #Irma and you have a warrant, we’ll gladly escort you to the safe and...
Sep 7, 2017 | Criminal Defense
If you have arrest warrants in Conway, Myrtle Beach, or the Horry County area, it is in your best interest to get them resolved as soon as possible. The criminal defense lawyers at Coastal Law, LLC, can help you with this. What happens if the bench warrant is not...
Sep 1, 2017 | Criminal Defense
Safewise.com has published their yearly list of “The 30 Most Dangerous Cities in America,” and Myrtle Beach, S.C. has moved to the nation’s number three spot. The numbers are based on the FBI’s crime statistics on a per capita basis which show that Myrtle Beach has a...
Aug 31, 2017 | Criminal Defense
In the “hot-coffee lawsuit” of 1992, a McDonald’s customer sued the fast-food giant after spilling hot coffee in her lap and suffering third-degree burns. The court ordered the fast-food giant to pay $2.86 million in damages: $640,000 for medical treatment and $2.7...
