Attorney Matt Kroes recently took a battery case to trial, and you better believe Attorney Marc Lopez wanted to hear about it! What follows is a lightly edited transcript of their conversation. Marc LopezMatt, you had a pretty big week! You had a trial, and you came...
The attorneys at the Marc Lopez Law Firm hate to see criminal charges ruin someone’s life, and that includes accusations of domestic battery. Not every domestic battery charge involves serious violence, but that doesn’t mean the case shouldn’t be taken seriously....
In Indiana, the catch-all crime of disorderly conduct isn’t so much defined by statute as it is described in three variations: If these cats were people, this photo might be said to capture an occurrence of disorderly conduct. As of this writing, cats in Indiana are...
The holiday season can be rough. If your December has been especially challenging, try to take comfort in the fact that you’ve never been arrested for throwing an entire ham at a family member. This is not the way you want to make the news. In what was reported...
Domestic battery is one of the most common criminal charges in the state of Indiana, starting off as a Class A misdemeanor that’s punishable by up to a year in jail. Like other kinds of battery, the domestic variety can easily become a felony. The wrong kind of...
Ordinary, everyday language is full of words that are more-or-less interchangeable. Lawyer language is not. For the sake of consistency and clarity, attorneys and judges like to use the same terms over and over again. When a lawyer uses a different term, there’s a...
