Attorneys need to understand in what form and when a party aggrieved by an adverse municipal court judgment may appeal for circuit court review, because severe consequences can flow from decisions made and strategies used at the outset of a client's municipal court case.

Few evidentiary rules have spawned as much litigation as that which allows the prosecution to use, under certain circumstances, other bad acts of a criminal defendant. The use of such evidence has generated controversy not because it has no appreciable probative value, but instead, as Wigmore once mused, because "it has too much."

Breath tests have been used to measure the level of alcohol in the human bloodstream since 1931, the year Dr. Rolla N. Harger, an Indiana University chemist and toxicologist, invented an instrument he gave the rather fetching name of “the drunk-o-meter.”

With the proliferation of cell phone use comes an increase in the number of criminal investigations arising from cell phone reports of ongoing or just completed criminal activity. Read how traditional "reasonable suspicion" analysis has evolved in response to the use of this new technology.