Florida Criminal Defense Blog

The 1^st 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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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

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...]