There is a “regular crime” then there is an “aggravated crime,” but what does this mean in the scheme of the American justice system? It’s a slightly simplified explanation of the differences in how a crime is charged to say…

Aggravated in reference to a crime is something different. There needs to be certain factors present in order to charge a crime as an aggravated one; say aggravated assault, for instance. “Aggravating factors that need to be present may include…

“In an interesting twist to the police being one step ahead of offenders with outstanding arrest warrants, people are now able to search online for their own active arrest warrants,” indicated Daniel H. Wannamaker of Wannamaker and Associates, of Austin,…

Generally speaking there is a difference between murder and manslaughter, but to the public it may seem there is a difference without a distinction. Legal definitions are often hard to explain to a non-lawyer. To begin with, the most serious…

As startling as this may seem, it is estimated that there is at least one burglary every 15 seconds in the U.S. This makes sense when put into perspective of our rocky national economy. If there is a burglary roughly…

Many people think of assault as being an assault directly on a person, when in reality it may be defined in a different manner depending on the actual facts of the case. Each case that carries a charge of assault…

There are plenty of fish in the sea of white-collar crime, ranging in size from small to whoppers, but it’s not always that easy to catch the big ones. It used to be that white-collar crime was an occasional, rather…

Texas takes its commitment of prosecuting drug traffickers very seriously with a variety of punishments that suit the severity of the crime. Drug trafficking is also called the illegal drug trade and it’s considered to be a serious offense in…

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that drug use and abuse is on the rise in the U.S. Drug-related crimes are on the increase and the U.S. Congress responded by enacting laws to make more drug-related activities chargeable…

The broad definition of “illegal drug trade” is more than just drug trafficking. “It pertains to growing, selling and distributing any type of illegal drugs,” explained Daniel H. Wannamaker of Wannamaker and Associates, an Austin, Texas, law firm with offices…