Recent Blog Posts
Practicing Medicine Under False Pretenses
Illegal drugs and prescription drugs that are widely sold on the black market for recreational purposes are known as “controlled substances” because they are subject to the tightest legal controls regarding their use in clinical practice. Schedule I controlled substances have no legally accepted medical uses at all and are always illegal. The others… Read More »
Could Meg’s Law Be The Solution To Florida’s Nitrous Oxide Crisis?
Whether an object is an item of drug paraphernalia or a harmless implement is often a matter of perspective. You can use a small spoon to snort cocaine or heat heroin, if you are so inclined, but the more obvious use for it is to stir coffee or eat ice cream. Yes, there are… Read More »
Misdemeanor Domestic Violence Charges Can Have Serious Consequences
Not every encounter with the police leads to a criminal conviction. Criminal trials account for only a small proportion of cases, but the statistics that say that about six percent of criminal cases go to trial, while 94 percent end with guilty pleas, do not tell the whole story. There are also cases where… Read More »
Illegal Possession Of Sea Turtle Eggs
Florida law protects the nests and eggs of endangered wildlife species as much as it protects the endangered animals themselves. Perhaps you have seen signs in parks, or even in the grassy medians of shopping center parking lots, warning you to avoid disturbing the habitats of burrowing owls, and you might have even seen… Read More »
Olympic Medalist Faces Charges For Dangerous Excessive Speeding
The people who come to Florida looking for a slow pace of life tend to be retirees who settle in seniors only housing developments where it’s all fun and boring games of shuffleboard until an alligator picks off your pet dog as you take it for a walk beside a meandering river. Everyone else… Read More »
Unsuccessful YouTube Stunt Leads To Drug Charges
According to Florida’s Youthful Offender Law, if you get convicted of a crime you committed before you turned 21, the longest sentence you can get is six years of prison time, six years of probation, or some of each adding up to six years; longer sentences are only possible for violent felonies and repeat… Read More »
Impersonating A Law Enforcement Officer
Several months ago, police approached a man who was sitting in an ordinary looking parked car in a driveway in Florida and asked him why he was there. He said that he was a police officer and that monitoring the area was part of his duties, and he showed them a police badge to… Read More »
Is Hit And Run A Misdemeanor Or A Felony?
Late at night, when no one else was around, you were driving from one gig to another. While backing your car out of a parking spot, you hit the back bumper of another car in the parking lot. In your overworked, sleep-deprived state, the only focus you could muster was to concentrate on getting… Read More »
Can An Anonymous Letter Prove A Defendant’s Guilt?
Everyone has complaints about the effect that the Internet has on our lives. Most people complain that it competes for our attention, taking it away from the things that really matter, like family and sleep. For people who work in professions where evidence matters, such as medicine and law, have a specific pet peeve,… Read More »
Look Out, Florida, Here Comes Flysky
Visits to the vet are stressful for pets and their human handlers alike. Even though our animal friends do not have the language to tell us what is bothering them, they often receive diagnoses similar to the ones that human patients receive from physicians. They suffer from the aches and pains of old age… Read More »
