What Force is the Police Allowed to Use?

By Jedidiah McKeehan Police brutality and police shootings are very much a hot button topic in the world today.  It seems that we are presented with articles or videos showing individuals harmed or killed by the police on a regular basis. What does the law say exactly...

Mailbox Tampering

What is it and what is the punishment for doing it By Jedidiah McKeehan Either you’ve done it, or you know someone who has done it…smashed a mailbox to smithereens.  You/they were probably young and thought it was hilarious and didn’t really think about any possible...

What does it mean to mitigate damages?

By Jedidiah McKeehan So one of the many legal terms that you hear from time to time is the term to “mitigate damages.” What does that term actually mean? Well, the best way to define it is to give an example.  Say you are renting a property and the tenant skips out on...