Florida Criminal Defense Blog


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.

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.

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.

Two women, allegedly upset about their service at a local fast food joint are now facing aggravated assault charges for taking their frustrations out on a restaurant worker. We’ve all been frustrated with service before but these two women took customer frustration to a whole new level, making national headlines with their alleged acts. [Read more...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at 5:19 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.

A number of proposed criminal law reforms didn’t make it through the Florida legislative session that ended on April 30th. [Read more...]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 at 4:24 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.

A new law that would ban texting while driving has passed the Florida State Senate in a 34-4 vote last week. Now, however, it must pass the House where there is expected to be some resistance. [Read more...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 29th, 2010 at 3:43 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.

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