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Florida DUI Manslaughter Convict Faces Failure to Appear Charges After 14 Years on the Run

Facing down a criminal conviction can be incredibly unnerving, but fleeing can leave you in even bigger trouble than before you started. That’s because failure to appear is a charge in and of itself that can have serious consequences, even if you are ultimately found not guilty of the original…

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Woman Arrested for Florida DUI – on Horseback

A Florida woman who allegedly rode her horse slowly down a busy highway while intoxicated was arrested for DUI recently. Although Florida is practically infamous for it’s bizarre news, even this seemed a bit over-the-top. Plus, it raises a number of questions about the scenarios in which F.S. 316.193, Florida’s…

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Plea Deal in Miami DUI Crash Pitched After Positive Pot Test

The majority of criminal defense cases that aren’t dismissed or result in acquittal are resolved through plea deals. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports two-thirds of felony defendants in the U.S. are eventually convicted and 95 percent of those convictions occur through plea bargains. Criminal defense lawyers in Fort Lauderdale know…

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South Florida Fraud Conviction Results in Years in Federal Prison

The Federal Trade Commission released a report earlier this year revealing Florida ranks No. 1 for complaints of fraud, and No. 2 for identity theft – the No. 1 fraudulent practice. From January through December last year, there were 270,000 complaints of fraud, amounting to 1,306 complaints of fraud per…

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Driver Gets 12 Years Prison for Fatal Bicycle Accident in South Florida

A Palm Beach County man accused of DUI manslaughter and leaving the scene of a fatal bicycle accident received a sentence of 12 years behind bars, following his conviction on the latter charge this summer. He’d been acquitted of DUI manslaughter, the Palm Beach Post reported.  This case was in…

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Florida Racial Profiling Alleged in Pedestrian Citations

A new report co-published by the Florida Times Union and journalism non-profit ProPublica revealed strong evidence that the sheriff’s office in Jacksonville has been racially profiling people of color for pedestrian citations. While such tickets might seem a minor annoyance, the disproportionate way in which they are reportedly being doled…

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FBI Concedes Hair Analysis Flaws in Criminal Cases That Spanned Decades

The U.S. Department of Justice, as well as the FBI, made an official acknowledgement that almost every examiner in the FBI’s elite forensic unit provided testimony that was inherently flawed in nearly all trials wherein they offered evidence against defendants in criminal cases for more than 20 years prior to…

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Benefits of Getting Your Florida DUI Reduced to Reckless Driving

Following a Fort Lauderdale DUI arrest, the primary goal of our DUI defense attorneys is to challenge the charge outright and secure a dismissal or not guilty verdict. However, when the unfavorable evidence is substantial and chances of that are slim, we may adjust our strategy to negotiate with prosecutors,…

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Court to Decide if Evidence Errors Require Drug Convictions to be Tossed

Multiple drug convictions could be overturned, if a state high court decides the trial court erred in allowing certain evidence to be considered. Although this is an out-of-state case, errors in evidence admission aren’t rare. The question is whether evidence errors ever warrant a reversal. Trial courts do have broad…

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No Broward Domestic Violence Charges Against NFL Player

The state attorney’s office announced in a recent memorandum they would not press charges against Miami Dolphins NFL player Jarvis Landry for an alleged incident of domestic violence in Broward County last spring. The football player had been under investigation since the alleged incident in April. The decision by the…

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