Law Offices of Karl E. Knudsen

The United States Supreme Court has a busy docket for 2013. A number of important cases affecting the criminal justice system throughout the United States are to be decided this season. Cases involving the Fourth Amendment’s…more

Corey Atkinson and Gregory Melton face potentially tough sentences after they were caught in separate instances of breaking and entering. The two men together have over 300 charges against them, both past and present. Atkinson…more

Michael Wayne Upton is a serial DUI offender. The North Carolina man faces his ninth DUI charge after he was pulled over in Cramerton. According to police reports, Upton ran a red light and drove in the wrong lane. Police…more

Willie Grimes is a free man. In 1987, Grimes heard a report on television that a rape had been committed and that police were searching for him in connection with the incident. Grimes, thinking that it was all a big…more

Sheree Josephson offers some hope to North Carolinians who have been wrongfully accused of a crime — Josephson recently released a study that indicates eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable. The professor from Weber…more

Pa Gibbi Njie is being held on charges of possession of counterfeit instruments. The 25-year-old resident of Raleigh, NC had 38 cartons of cigarettes in his truck when he was pulled over on a routine traffic stop. Njie also had…more

Steven Ellis Bradley was sentenced to serve 24 months of supervised probation along with a 12-month suspended sentence after he was convicted of driving while impaired (DWI). His sentence includes 24 hours of community service,…more

Staats Battle, a walk-on point guard for the North Carolina State Wolfpacks basketball team was arrested on New Year’s Eve on suspicion of driving while impaired (DWI). The 19-year-old basketball player faces a number of…more

Fernando Ortiz-Soto will spend 6 to 17 months in prison for the accidental death of Adam Kempf. Kempf was 12 years old and a seventh grade student at Coats-Erwin Middle School when he died. He was boarding his school bus on…more

Alejandro Salinas Garcia, 31, and Cesar Sierro-Pineda, 34, are to spend life in prison following sentencing in separate cases, both filed in federal court. Garcia was convicted of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, having imported…more

Public reaction to the Newtown killings has shown the true split personality of the U.S. population. On the one hand, public fear of the improper use of weapons has triggered backlash against gun enthusiasts, with a New York…more