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Florida Cyberbully Felony Arrest for Teen Girls

Two young teenagers are facing felony stalking charges in Florida following the suicide of a classmate who was reportedly bullied by the two girls via social media for more than a year. Having recently wrote about a number of stalking cases in our Fort Lauderdale criminal defense lawyer blog, we…

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South Florida Drug Arrests Making Police Departments Wealthy

Law enforcement has been targeting illicit drug use and sales for a long time now. But actually profiting? An explosive, six-month investigation by the Sun-Sentinel revealed that police agencies are literally making millions of dollars by aggressively pursuing drug arrests in Fort Lauderadale and throughout South Florida. In 2011 and…

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Florida Stalking Cases Make Headlines

A 25-year-old man from Coconut Creek has been arrested for stalking pro-golfer Morgan Pressel – the third time since 2009 that he’s been arrested for the same offense. He’s been arrested on at least four other occasions since 2007 for trespassing and contempt of court. Authorities say the defendant began…

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Florida Juvenile Traffic Offenses: Potential for Long-Lasting Consequences

Police in Boynton Beach recently arrested a 14-year-old girl and a 35-year-old man after the two were stopped in a stolen vehicle, which was being driven by the underage, non-licensed girl. Authorities say the girl was invited by the man to drive the vehicle after the two met at a…

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Florida Road Rage Case Could End in Felony Conviction

An alleged case of road rage in Boca Raton has resulted in a Coconut Creek man facing felony charges of aggravated assault after authorities say he pointed a gun at another driver on I-95. Our Fort Lauderdale criminal traffic defense lawyers know that a recently-passed Florida law, which went into…

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“Reasonable Suspicion” Key in Many Florida Criminal Cases

A criminal traffic defendant in Ohio this month was victorious in her appeal against a trooper who had stopped her and subsequently arrested her for DUI, reckless operation and failure to drive within marked lanes. The grounds for her appeal? The trooper lacked a “reasonable, articulable” suspicion upon which to…

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Florida Drug Sentencing Severe, Despite Calls for Change

When U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder stood before the world and promised that his office was committed to curbing “draconian” minimum mandatory sentences for lower-tier drug offenders, it sounded awfully familiar to many Floridians. For years, a bi-partisan coalition of activists in the state have been trying without success to…

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