By now, unless you have only recently resuscitated yourself from a St. Patrick’s Day weekend fog, you have seen or heard about the young, er, couple, having daylight sex next to a dumpster in the parking lot behind Grotto Pizza […]
Read more ›Reasonable, intelligent people can, and do, disagree about whether we as a society should execute murderers rather than lock them away for life. But everyone should be able to agree that the death penalty should be carried out fairly and […]
Read more ›At Collins & Associates, we are often contacted by folks who have some criminal history in their distant past and are trying to clean it up. Sometimes a long-ago mistake can lead to consequences like being denied employment opportunities or […]
Read more ›Courts around the country have been addressing the issue of whether posts from Facebook, Twitter, etc. are admissible as evidence at trial. This week the Delaware Supreme Court had occasion to face the issue and has decided such posts are […]
Read more ›Let’s state the obvious: do not drink and drive. That way you will never have to worry about a DUI arrest. But with the BAC limit set at .08 and with aggressive DUI patrols and checkpoints out there, it is […]
Read more ›Here is a link to the famous Jimmy Breslin column from November 1963 about the man who dug JFK’s grave at Arlington: Digging John F. Kennedy’s Grave Was An Honor: November 1963
Read more ›In the wake of a judge ruling that the NYPD’s aggressive “stop and frisk” tactics violate the constitution, three Delaware plaintiffs sued in federal court over Delaware’s law allowing police to stop, frisk and then detain individuals for up to […]
Read more ›New York’s stop and frisk law, which allowed police to go up to just about anyone for any reason and pat them down, was struck down earlier this year by a New York judge. (Floyd v. City of NY). Police in […]
Read more ›8 in 10 released inmates arrested again within 3 years Nearly eight in 10 Delaware inmates sentenced to more than a year in prison are arrested again for a serious offense within three years of their release, according to a […]
Read more ›Thirty-six law enforcement officers were sworn in today by state Attorney General Beau Biden as part of the summer crackdown on drunken drivers in the state, which is now in its 11th year. The officers included those from Wilmington, Newark, […]
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