Category Archives: Criminal Law
Probation Officer Faces Charges For Illegal Use Of County Database
Everywhere you look online, you find content about how young people have no enthusiasm for future professional goals. You find numerous people repeating the adage that work should not define one’s identity and that Generation Z is the first generation of Americans to realize that. To find that employment aspirational sparkle, elementary school career… Read More »
Does Your Tattoo Leave Room For Reasonable Doubt?
Visible tattoos can be an inexpensive way to express your individuality in a world that seems determined to stand in the way of most of the things that make you happy. You might feel like you do not have any free time during the day. You are either working, commuting to work, or sleeping,… Read More »
How Much Can You Reduce Your Prison Sentence For Good Behavior?
Compared to other states that have consistently voted red in recent elections, Florida has a laid-back image when it comes to crime, especially drug crimes. Florida has an array of pretrial diversion programs, sometimes called alternative courts or restorative justice programs, where people can avoid criminal convictions by completing probation sentences aimed at addressing… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
What Is Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel?
What does it mean to have a fair trial? The Bill of Rights sheds some light on the matter, and case law has further interpreted it. For example, a fair trial should take place soon enough after the original accusations that the defendant does not have to spend years in suspense about his or… Read More »
Lottery Winner Arrested For Assaulting Police Officer During Trip To Florida
If you win the lottery jackpot, the lessons you will learn will be more valuable than anything you buy. Money can’t buy happiness. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Be careful what you wish for. No one is above the law. News stories about lottery winners fall into two categories. Either… Read More »
