Drug Charges

Many prosecutions of criminal cases involving drug offenses begin with the execution of a search warrant. It is essential that the warrant affidavit -- the document a law enforcement officer presents to a judge to justify the issuance of a warrant -- be scrutinized...

Being accused of a drug crime is a serious predicament to be in. This is especially true when it is a person's first offense, and they are not fully aware of the situation or the potential penalties he or she could face. Even when a drug crime appears to be simple or...

Drug charges come in many shapes and sizes, but they all have the power to derail your life. While Minnesota does allow for medical marijuana usage under certain circumstances, the penalties for drug convictions remain fairly stiff, even for relatively minor...

Facing criminal allegations is a tough predicament to be in. Individuals in Minnesota facing drug charges might be under the impression that they have little to no options fighting evidence collected against them. However, there are a wide variety of defense routes...

Across the Twin Cities, the state of Minnesota, and indeed the entire country, there are extensive and punishing laws on the books that go after people who are accused of drug crimes. These laws have immense penalties that often change the course of a person's life,...

While people generally know that using nonprescription drugs is illegal, they may not know that possessing items used in the consumption of those drugs is also illegal. Surprisingly, many of the items considered drug paraphernalia are actually things that many people...

In our last post, we talked about the scheduling system and the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. This seminal piece of legislation forever changed how the US tackled drug crimes, and we've been in the "War on Drugs" ever since. The "success," so much as it is, of...

You probably don't think about the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 that much on a daily, weekly, or even monthly basis. But it is one of the most important pieces of legislation in the world of criminal law in the last half-century. The Controlled Substances Act...

This may seem like a plot point straight out of a crime thriller, but this really happened in Washington D.C. An evidence vault at a police department was struck by an explosion recently, damaged evidence packets. About 150 of the packets suffered "significant" damage...

When people think of those who are charged with drug crimes, they often conjure up mental pictures of homelessness, theft, and other types of crime and decay. However, not everyone who is accused of a drug or related crime fits this mold. One group that routinely...