Sansone & Lauber Blog

The unrest in Ferguson Missouri has brought attention to many issues that have been either been ignored or unknown to the general public regarding municipal courts throughout the St. Louis area. A gro...

Oftentimes when drivers are stopped the police often ask to search your car. Most people say yes out of fear that saying no makes them look guilty of something, even if they know the police will find ...

A Virginia man by the name of Jesse Lee Herald agree to a very strange and controversial plea deal in his pending criminal case in Shenandoah, Virginia. He voluntarily agreed to plea guilty to save up...

Rene Lima-Marin was arrested and and another man were convicted of multiple robbery, kidnapping and burglary charges in 2000 in Aurora, Colorado. Lima-Marin was 20 years old when he was involved in tw...

A client of our firm, M.A., was driving his car in North County in the early morning when he approached a red light. He attempted to apply his breaks but slid into the intersection striking another ca...

Many people believe that crime is directly related to the illegal drug trade. People tend to believe that since drugs in general are illegal that they lead to violent crime as people are are trying to...

A client of our firm was arrested and charged with a felony domestic assault case. D.H. was out of town for a social function with his wife when he was arrested and charged with a felony domestic assa...

One the most common questions I get concerning the legalization of Marijuana is what happens to all of the people who have pleaded guilty before pot was legalized. Colorado gave some guidance on this ...

When a person in the State of Missouri gets pulled over for DWI they are typically asked to take a breath test after their arrest. Most people don’t realize that although the breath analysis mac...

In a close 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that law enforcement officials ought to be permitted to take DNA from suspects who have been arrested, without first having to secure a w...