Should he have sold a described "small amount of heroin" to undercover police officers?

Obviously not. That transgression yielded a year of home detention and various fines for an offense involving a $400 sale of an illegal drug.

If you have a criminal record, you may worry about your employability in Missouri. Recent findings, published in an article by the Society for Human Resource Management, however, indicate that worry you should not. With unemployment at a 17-year low at just 3.9 percent, and with a third of the workforce holding a criminal record of some sort, employers realize that they must broaden their horizons if they hope to hire top talent and remain competitive. For many, broadening the horizon means hiring convicts.

SHRM's president and chief executive officer, Johnny C. Tailor, says that employers should never view a criminal record as an automatic disqualifier. It appears that many employers have heeded his advice. According to findings, two-thirds of hiring managers and three-fourths of HR professionals have hired individuals who have substance related felonies or misdemeanors on their records. However, do employers discriminate in which felons they hire? The findings suggest that yes, they do.

The internet is the preferred home for white collar and federal criminals. Law enforcement routinely uses IP addresses as a standard tool in their arsenal. The ease with which law enforcement can trace federal criminals through an IP Address may have ironically spawned the development of dark web technology.

IP addresses can be static (never changing) or dynamic (always shifting). The information route can flow through multiple static or dynamic servers; it becomes nearly impossible to determine whether a particular IP address corresponds to a specific criminal. For this reason, a judge often rules dark web evidence inadmissible in criminal trials.

Having the police pull you over after you have had alcohol can be unsettling. The police are likely to ask a lot of questions that you may feel like you have no choice to answer. The same goes for field sobriety tests.

It is illegal to drive while intoxicated in every state, which is why the consequences are so severe. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2016 the police arrested over one million individuals for drunk driving. When the police pull you over, they may ask you to perform field sobriety tests. Is it illegal to refuse to take them?