LEGAL FAQ VIDEOS
Your Legal Questions Answered
On this page, you will find a series of short videos in which we answer our clients’ most common questions. Curious about something we didn’t discuss here or need a more in-depth understanding of one of these subjects? We encourage you to contact us or more information.
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If you’re looking to hire a DUI lawyer, what questions should you ask? You should ask them how many cases they’ve handled. In other words, ask them what percentage of their practice is devoted to DUI defense. Do they do other types of defense, or do th … |
Many times, people come to us if they’ve been arrested for what we called Criminal Domestic Violence (though now they’ve shortened it to just Domestic Violence). Domestic Violence is an Assault, it could be more or less the same as any kind of Assault … |
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The penalties for DUI are basically that you can lose your license / your license will be suspended / a person could go to jail for a DUI / the other thing that could happen is a person could be required to get an interlock ignition device, in other wo … |
What causes a license suspension in South Carolina? If a person is arrested and charged with a DUI, then there are really two steps to that: If the person is arrested for DUI and is offered [and refused] a breath test (and the person has the right to r … |
What’s the probable cause or reasonable suspicion to pull someone over for DUI? It really is more common sense: it’s bad driving. If the police officer sees someone driving badly, it could be caused by any number of things: the person could be looking … |
If you’re looking to retain a lawyer to defend you on a case, then there are certain things that it would probably behoove you to ask them. For example, have they tried that kind of case? In other words, if your case is in the municipal court, whatever … |
In terms of the role of the prosecutor, the judge, and the defense attorney, each of those people have distinct roles. The judge’s role is to be fair and impartial, and to hear the case and decide whether you’re guilty or not guilty, and if you’re guil … |
On the issue of a Bench Trial versus a Jury Trial, in our jurisdiction here in the Myrtle Beach area, the summary court cases start out as a Bench Trial. The issue that a person has there is: do you really want to stand there in front of a judge and ha … |
