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The U.S. Supreme Court has just agreed to hear two cases about whether law enforcement should be allowed, without a warrant, to seize and go through the cellphones of anyone they arrest. In one case, the cellphone was an old-fashioned type with minimal functionality...
A federal investigation that started in 2012 is finally over after an Orange County man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison. A 31-year old man, Daniel Heffield, had been secretly videotaping girls while they used the bathroom at his mother's home during their...
Seven Florida residents have been arrested on multiple charges in a mortgage fraud scheme involving a development in North Carolina. The defendants are being accused of using fraudulent loan applications to get construction mortgages. The loans were valued at almost...
The majority of police investigators are honorable and work within the perimeters of the law while investigating and attempting to solve crimes. In some cases, however, police officers have been found to grossly abuse their positions of power. As a result, the lives...
In Stracar v. State, 38 Fla. L. Weekly D2209a (Fla. 4th DCA 2013), Stracar was convicted of two counts of vehicular homicide. Stacar argued that the trial court erred in denying her motions for judgment of acquittal on the basis that the State's evidence failed to...
In Moore v. State, 38 Fla. L. Weekly D2184a (Fla. 2nd DCA 2013), a trial court order was reversed due to the fact that the trial court judge relied on outdated law.In that case, Moore filed a motion to suppress items discovered during a stop. An officer had stopped...
Many people don't realize that being charged with a crime can result in many or all of their assets being seized by the government. Both Florida and the federal government have granted themselves the authority to confiscate any property law enforcement believes can be...
By far, the most concrete and useful of the three pronouncements for criminal defense attorneys made last week was United States Attorney General Eric Holder's Memorandum to all Assistant United States Attorneys regarding the "Department Policy on Charging Mandatory...
Criminal defense attorneys are seeing a change in the landscape of federal crimes. On the same day as United States Attorney General Eric Holder's drug charges and mandatory minimum speech, the DOJ released an eight-page brochure entitled "Smart on Crime: Reforming...
When an eye-witness identifies a suspect to law enforcement, it rarely occurs from a line up of people through a large glass window, as commonly seen on television shows like "Law and Order." Witnesses will often identify a person from an assortment of six...
