Search and seizure issues are important to explore in criminal defense cases. Police do not have the ability to do anything they please when dealing with criminal suspects, and failure to respect the privacy rights of suspects can impact the viability of a criminal...
Tampa Federal Criminal Defense Lawyer
Month: June 2014
Lightning’s Malone faces charges for cocaine possession
Ryan Malone of the Tampa Bay Lightning, as our Tampa readers may have already heard, is currently in the midst of a criminal case involving charges of drunk-driving and cocaine possession. Those charges, to which Malone has pleaded not guilty, stem from an April 12...
Beware officers using ‘smell of marijuana’ as justification for search
When police conduct investigations into suspected drug activity, they are bound by various rules which aim to protect the constitutional rights of criminal suspects. Unfortunately, police do not always follow these rules as they should, and suspects end up having...
7 charged in Tampa Medicare fraud crackdown
Health care fraud is a big problem in the United States, and is bound to become a bigger problem with more federal money available to the health care system through the Affordable Care Act. In an effort to counteract the problem, the Department of Justice has...