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Court of Appeals Gets New $48 Million Home

The 1st District Court of Appeals will be sitting pretty come this winter, in what the St. Petersburg Times calls the “Taj Mahal” of Tallahassee. At a time when court workers are losing jobs and the budget is a mess, people are enraged as the construction that will give each judge a 60 inch flat screen, a kitchen, and a granite bathroom in each personal chamber. [Read more...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, August 29th, 2010 at 12:52 am and is filed under criminal law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Facebook Friend Request Violates Domestic Violence Injunction

A Florida man was arrested and jailed for sending his wife a friend request on Facebook, in violation of a domestic protection order. [Read more...]

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 at 3:58 pm and is filed under criminal law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Convicted Sex Offender Trapped Within Residential Restrictions

A forty-four year old Southwest Miami-Dade man is on the verge of homelessness as he is trapped between a foreclosed home and residential restrictions that won’t let him move. He seems, by all accounts, to be a reformed man and doing his part to be a productive member of society. That could all change, however, if he doesn’t find a place to live. [Read more...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 12th, 2010 at 10:09 am and is filed under criminal law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Florida School Teacher’s DUI Goes Awry

A elementary school teacher from South Florida is facing a long list of charges after what would’ve been a simple DUI went wrong. When intoxicated, people can make odd choices and act in ways not typical of their personality. This seems to have potentially been the case with the teacher in question. [Read more...]

This entry was posted on Monday, August 9th, 2010 at 10:46 am and is filed under DUI. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Florida “Pill Mills” Draw Thousands and Boost Crime

Florida is one of only a handful of states that does not have a prescription drug control program. Although this is scheduled to change in December, the booming pill mills stand to prescribe thousands if not millions of pills between now and then. [Read more...]

This entry was posted on Friday, July 16th, 2010 at 4:06 pm and is filed under drug charges. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Florida Drug Deaths Up 20%

According to the Miami Herald, experts believe Florida may be entering a “new wave” of addiction that hasn’t been seen in nearly 30 years. Now, instead of cocaine, lethal combinations of opiates and narcotics are killing people and holding them tightly in the grips of addiction. [Read more...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at 5:26 pm and is filed under drug charges. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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