George Roland | Denton Criminal Defense Lawyer

    In his book, Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison (roughly translated as “Discipline and Punish: the birth of the prison”), Michel Foucault

In a Class B possession of marijuana case, the State has the burden to prove that the defendant knowingly or intentionally possessed a usable quantity

Courts have, for over a century now, considered a MAN assaulting a WOMAN to be a crime of “moral turpitude.” See Curtis v. State, 81

I would imagine that a great number of confidential informants (that’s the police word for them; to everyone else, they are generally known as “snitches”)

    Without a doubt, the greatest drama ever to be aired on HBO was The Wire, which ran from 2002-2008. For those unfamiliar with

  One of the great things about jury trials is that the public—the citizens of a county—get to decide what conduct they believe is deserving

  There is, recounted in Slavoj Zizek’s excellent 2008 book, Violence, a story of the food riots in Brazil, wherein the lower classes who lived

    It is not uncommon at a motion to suppress hearing based on an unlawful seizure of a citizen to hear the police officer

While less a problem in rural areas, the on-street encounter with police is prevalent in urban areas. Consider the following: you are out on Fry

I have been reading an excellent book by David J. Hand, The Impossibility Principle: why coincidences, miracles, and rare events happen every day, (2014), that