Category: Criminal Defense

DWI Checkpoint Alert! Lakeview Saturday!

June 17, 2011
Bloom Legal Network
NOPD has issued a statement today indicating that it will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint TOMORROW NIGHT (SATURDAY 6/18) in the Lakeview area from approximately 9pm to 5am. No specific indication as to the location of the

Police Raid Sports Vue Bar, 43 Arrested

June 10, 2011
Bloom Legal Network
The officers made a “soft entrance” into the bar by entering in plain clothes and only announcing themselves after the lights had been raised and the music turned off. Between 10:45 pm when they entered the bar and 3:45...

Man Assaults Himself to Avoid DUI

June 8, 2011
Bloom Legal Network
There have been many strange attempts to avoid a DUI charge including the myth that putting pennies in your mouth tricks a breathalyser and one man who ate his own underwear to soak up the alcohol in his stomach. In that long

DWI Checkpoint Alert! Downtown Friday!

June 3, 2011
Bloom Legal Network
NOPD has issued a statement today indicating that it will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint TONIGHT (FRIDAY 6/3) in the Downtown area from approximately 9pm to 5am. No specific indication as to the location of the...

Boy Overdoses Methadone from a Dumpster

June 1, 2011
Bloom Legal Network
Richard Newkirk, a 32 year old resident of Ormond Beach Florida, is being charged with supplying a controlled substance to a person less than 18 years old and manslaughter after 14 year old Bryce Parson took a lethal dose of

Traffic Court Cost Increase Passes Senate

May 27, 2011
Bloom Legal Network
The Louisiana State Senate unanimously passed a bill allowing Orleans Parish Traffic Court judges to increase the amount of court costs. The 32-0 vote on the bill proposed by Sen. Edwin Murray of Violet, LA raised the limit...

Rapper BG Indicted on Gun Charges

May 23, 2011
Bloom Legal Network
Local rapper BG a.k.a. Baby Gangster has been a fixture in the New Orleans rap community since he signed with Cash Money Records at the age of 13. Now 30 years old, BG, whose legal name is Christopher Dorsey, has been...

DWI Checkpoint Alert! Uptown Saturday!

May 20, 2011
Bloom Legal Network
NOPD has issued a statement today indicating that it will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint tomorrow (SATURDAY 5/21) in the Uptown area from approximately 9pm to 5am. No specific indication as to the location of the...

How Much is Too Much

May 20, 2011
Bloom Legal Network
Most people know that the legal limit for blood alcohol content (BAC) while operating a vehicle is .08%, but few know what this means in practical terms. This post is meant to explain how alcohol can affect the body and what

Supreme Court Cripples the Fourth Amendment

May 19, 2011
Bloom Legal Network
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure, was weakened this week when the Supreme Court ruled on Kentucky v. King. The ruling supported the Kentucky Police’s...

NOPD Officer Booked With DWI/Hit and Run

May 11, 2011
Bloom Legal Network
NOPD Officer, Keyalah Bell, who was a witness for the government in the recent Henry Glover civil rights trial in New Orleans, was arrested early Friday morning for leaving the scene of an accident and DWI. After submitting...