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Charges Filed In Church Hate Speech Case
Authorities arrested a juvenile, whose age hasn’t been released, for allegedly vandalizing a church with racial slurs as well as other offensive language. Several building signs and structures, including the Jesus is Lord Church on Pineapple Avenue, along with city-owned properties, were defaced with hate speech, racial slurs, and other forms of offensive language… Read More »
Officials Execute Obese Inmate
A 48-year-old man, who weighed over 380 pounds, lost his final appeal and was executed in April 2025. The Florida Supreme Court rejected the man’s claims in a 23-page opinion, deeming his last-ditch effort to avoid the death penalty as “untimely and meritless,” noting that he’s had medical conditions dating back to 2009. Attorneys… Read More »
Jail Release Basics In Palm Beach County
Prompt jail release, which is guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment, may be the most overlooked and most important step in the criminal defense process. Note that “prompt” is a subjective word that means different things in different contexts. Many defendants don’t even have lawyers at the initial jail release stage. Delayed jail release usually… Read More »
Can There Be Reasonable Doubt That You Sold Drugs To An Undercover Police Officer?
If police catch you with a large quantity of a controlled substance in your possession, the odds are in your favor that you can get the charges downgraded to simple possession, provided that the quantity of the drugs was the only thing that made prosecutors believe that you intended to sell them. Things are… Read More »
Socioeconomic Class And The Outcomes Of Criminal Cases
The real fun in hate watching content about wealthy people lies not in seeing all the things they have that you will never be able to afford, but rather in seeing the things that money cannot buy. Money cannot buy true friendship, and it cannot buy self-acceptance; you have as good a chance of… Read More »
Pathos, Logos, Ethos, And Your Criminal Defense Case
When you plead not guilty and your criminal case goes to trial, you are counting on your lawyer being able to persuade the jury that there is reasonable doubt about your guilt. How do lawyers make persuasive arguments? They do not do it by magic. Part of your lawyer’s success takes place before the… Read More »
Drug Delivery Resulting In Death
The after-school specials that were the bread and butter of aspiring actors and television producers in the 1980s and an inexhaustible source of stoner entertainment in the 1990s and beyond draw a short and direct line between first experimentation with illicit drugs and an early and painful death. In real life, the path is… Read More »
Broward Woman Convicted Of Fraud After Small Business Loan Investment Scheme
The good news about Ponzi schemes is that they are not as insidious as pyramid schemes. In a Ponzi scheme, the person soliciting payment misleads others into believing that they are paying money to him or her for an investment, in which the payors will eventually receive a return, whereas the speaker knows that… Read More »
Online Solicitation Charges Usually Are Not A Matter Of Entrapment
The law treats Internet sex crimes against minors seriously. You can get a felony conviction and be required to register as a sex offender for online solicitation of a minor, even if you never met the minor in person and have never been in the same room together. Charges of online solicitation apply if… Read More »
When Does The Law Require You To Tell Police Your Name?
You have the right to remain silent, except when you don’t. It is possible to face criminal penalties for refusing to tell a police officer your name or to show a government-issued identification card in situations where the law requires this. Police officers have the right to ask you your name if they are… Read More »
