Author Archives: Aaron Goforth
CAN THE POLICE LIE TO ME?
In HBO’s The Wire, Detective Moreland sets up an elaborate scheme to coax a confession out of a young suspect. The detective tells the young suspect that the office copy machine is in fact a polygraph machine and tapes his hand to it. Having previously loaded the copy machine with three pages that have the […]
SOCCER MOMS (and Dads) BEWARE
Imagine yourself on any given Saturday morning driving your soccer star back and forth to their morning match. After the game, you and the other soccer moms (dads too) decide to take the kids for a bite to eat and, as you unwind together, you have a large glass of wine. You don’t feel impaired […]
Stand Your Ground – NC’S Castle Doctrine
In recent years, North Carolina has codified what has been referred to in other states as the ‘Castle Doctrine’ or the ‘Stand your Ground’ rule. This has created a presumption of self-defense in cases where the use of deadly force may otherwise be considered a crime. Instead, the defender who uses deadly force under the […]
