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Footage From Police-Gifted Doorbells Are Being Used for Surveillance

Police call it a “modern-day neighborhood watch,”  a proliferating network of surveillance cameras affixed to the doorbells of private residences. Florida criminal defense lawyers are increasingly wary, citing concerns about privacy – especially because police from here to Houston have been “gifting” these devices to homeowners – using taxpayer money…

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Fort Lauderdale Criminal Defense Lawyer: Justice is Blind, But the Jury Isn’t

Fort Lauderdale criminal defense lawyers know that while the appearance of a defendant shouldn’t matter in a criminal trial, it inevitably does. In fact, it’s relatively standard good practice for criminal defense attorneys to initiate some alteration of one’s looks in preparation for trial. Usually, that’s something as simple as…

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Florida Frequently Ground Zero for Emerging New Fraud Types

Many new types of fraud are either born or become big-time in Florida – South Florida in particular. A top agent for the Internal Revenue Service speculated it was a combination of factors: Beautiful weather and beaches a lot of people in general. Older folks – especially vulnerable to almost…

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Plea Bargaining May Be No Bargain – Consult A Defense Attorney

A substantial number of criminal cases that are prosecuted in Florida result in some type of conviction by way of a plea bargain. As noted by the American Bar Association, this typically involves prosecutors offering a deal that allows the defendant to plead guilty to a lesser crime than what…

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Credibility of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, Like Many Forensics, Under Fire

Forensic science has played an increasingly larger role in criminal courtrooms across the country – particularly in cases involving more serious crimes, such as homicides, robberies and sexual assaults. However, the scientific veracity of this evidence has come under fire in recent years as even more advanced science has proven…

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Broward Law Enforcement Leads State in Red Flag Law Gun Seizures

Under Florida’s controversial new “red flag” law, passed after the deadly shooting at a Parkland High School, law enforcement agencies in Broward lead the state in arrests for violations. The Red Flag gun law was passed March 5th, designed to allow local law enforcement agencies to seize weapons from individuals…

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Florida Opioid Death Defendants Face Manslaughter or Murder Charges

As Florida – and the rest of the country – have been grappling with a crisis of opioid addiction, law enforcement and prosecutors have been pursuing criminal action against those who make these drugs available. Drug-dealing has never been legal, but increasingly, prosecutors are going after doctors, pharmacists and others…

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New Florida “Red Flag” Law Allows Police to Seize Guns, Arrest Those Who Refuse

Following the mass shooting at a South Florida high school in February, Florida became the sixth state to pass a so-called “red flag law,” something numerous other states are also examining.  Sometimes also referred to as a “risk warrant law,” this measure approved by state legislators last month give police…

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Fewer Florida Death Sentences Post-Unanimous Jury Rule

It’s been a year since the U.S. Supreme Court deemed Florida’s process of deciding death penalty cases unconstitutional for the second time. Florida had a long-standing practice of allowing imposition of the death penalty without the unanimous support of a jury. Before the 2016 ruling in Hurst v. Florida, courts here…

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Copycat School Shooting Threats Can Lead to Serious Florida Criminal Charges

The day after a gunman fatally shot 17 people at a high school in South Florida, most of American teenagers returned to school. And when they did, a number of so-called “copycat” threats were made, posted on social media, scrawled on bathroom walls and called into school administration offices. Regardless…

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