The 33-year-old Ohio father of a teenage girl was sentenced to two years in prison for an attack on a teen boy who had allegedly propositioned the 13-year-old girl while on a cruise ship off the coast of Florida. The incident occurred on an Independence of the Seas cruise ship…
A 24-year-old South Florida man stands accused of assault with a deadly weapon for throwing a live alligator into a fast-food restaurant drive-thru window. His father recently spoke out, saying his son is a “nature lover” with a “good heart,” and the ordeal was simply, “a prank.” Unfortunately, intent in…
The Florida Supreme Court has once again taken on the issue of the controversial “Stand Your Ground Law,” ruling explicitly that the burden is on the defendant to prove he or she is entitled to immunity under this statute. In Bretherick v. Florida, defendant had argued the onus was on…
Rapper and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs will avoid felony charges after an incident in which he allegedly swung a kettlebell weight during an angry confrontation with one of his son’s college football coaches. Initially, Combs was arrested on a number of serious crimes, including battery, making criminal threats and…
There is a tendency among criminal defendants facing serious felony charges to assume they have few options. Pressured by prosecutors and busy public defenders, defendants may be be quick to accept a less-than-advantageous plea deal, simply because they assume there is little chance of successfully fighting the charges at trial.…
Inmates at both the Broward County and Palm Beach County Jails are notorious for their creativity. That is, the creative ways in which they use every-day objects and turn them into weapons. Fort Lauderdale criminal defense lawyers know sometimes, it’s done out of fear or for protection. Other times anger…
A Fort Lauderdale assault case is raising the question of whether intoxication is a valid defense for a crime under Florida law. Fort Lauderdale assault defense attorneys know that, certainly, drugs or alcohol abuse are factors in many crimes. But does it matter whether a person is too drunk or…
The wife of Fort Lauderdale police chief Frank Adderley has been spared a 20 year minimum mandatory sentence by the Office of the State Attorney for Broward County. Eleanor Adderley was originally charged with aggravated assault with a firearm which carries a stiff 20 year minimum sentence. However, the charge…