Modified Transcript of “What Is Legal Precedent?” in North Carolina for Hearing Impaired: What is Precedence? What is Legal Precedent? What Has Happened in the Past? The question is what is precedence, meaning what has happened beforehand. That really applies to a couple different areas. First there’s something called case…
Modified Transcript of “Do Family & Friends Have to Cooperate with Police” for the Hearing Impaired: If my loved one is accused of a felony, can I plead the fifth? When you are called upon to answer questions by law enforcement, people often times refer to or ask the question,…
Modified Transcript of “Charlotte Experienced Legal Counsel” for the Hearing Impaired: How do I understand how to represent a serious felony? The simple answer is hard knocks, it’s life. It’s being in the trenches and fighting for someone’s life and their livelihood and their family and their well being. There…
It is unlawful for a person less than 21 years old to drive a motor vehicle on a highway or public vehicular area while consuming alcohol or at any time while he has remaining in his body any alcohol or controlled substance previously consumed, but a person less than…
Modified Transcript of “How To Retain A Lawyer” for Hearing Impaired: Retaining an attorney should take more than a two minute conversation on the phone. We like to provide some basic information during initial phone conference and especially for more serious cases, cases involving the potential for jail time…
Modified Transcript for Hearing Impaired for “Social Media Felony Charges” It’s not unusual for clients to call, especially in cases that involve technology, cyber crimes. Sometimes you see this in sex offenses. They ask, “Should I delete my accounts,” and the answer is no. That actually could get you in…
Serious Felony Investigations by Law Enforcement deserve serious attention Modified Transcript for the Hearing Impaired of “Serious Felony Investigations by Law Enforcement” When cases involve serious felonies it is safe to assume that you are dealing with a level of prosecutor, you’re dealing with a level of law enforcement, normally…
Jail Visits by an attorney are common, especially with matters involving serious criminal charges, felonies and even some misdemeanors with high bond amounts. Attorney Bill Powers Modified Transcript of “Will Attorney Come to Jail?” for the Hearing Impaired: If you’re in jail, and you’ve been charged with…
Considerations in Selecting An Attorney to Help Attorney Bill Powers is the managing partner of Powers Law Firm PA, pllc in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a regular commentator on developing legal trends, laws, court procedures, trials and pending legislation on North Carolina Law Talk. Bill is the Vice…
Should I Give A Statement on TV? Should I Talk To Reporters? Attorney Bill Powers explains some of the considerations of why Limiting Contact With Media may be important. Transcript for Hearing Impaired: Of the many things that we do to help clients out with serious felonies, whether it’s…