As criminal defense lawyers in the Jacksonville, Florida area, we see a lot of domestic battery cases. Although they are usually misdemeanors, they can be very serious charges that stay on a person’s criminal record forever. Domestic battery cases are often considered the most serious misdemeanor cases by the prosecutors…
In Florida, a person can be arrested for DUI if he/she drives a motor vehicle while impaired from alcohol or drugs. A person can also be arrested for DUI if he/she is not driving if the person is in actual physical control of the vehicle. This has been interpreted to…
In Florida, the DUI laws have become more and more severe over the years. The license suspension penalties that go with DUI convictions have also become more severe over the years. If a person gets a fourth DUI conviction, his/her driving privileges will be permanently suspended. This seems to be…
We have handled a lot of DUI cases in Florida that start when a police officer sees a person asleep in the driver’s seat of a vehicle. This scenario often results in a DUi arrest, although the police often do not follow the rules in making the DUI arrest. First,…
First, I suppose we should note that in Florida, a person can be arrested and convicted of driving under the influence (DUI) for riding a bicycle while impaired from alcohol or drugs. It would certainly be bad luck to get a criminal conviction for DUI in Florida for drunk driving…
Police in Flagler County, St. Johns County and Putnam County, Florida arrested 103 people who were allegedly involved in illegally trafficking prescription pills, according to an article on News4Jax.com. As we have discussed several times on our website, over the last few years police throughout Florida and Georgia have been…
As we have discussed on our criminal defense lawyer blog in the past, the federal sentencing guidelines, which play a significant role in the ultimate sentence a federal criminal defendant will receive, used to be much more severe for crack cocaine cases as opposed to powder cocaine cases. They still…
In Florida, a common basis for a search of a suspect is called the search incident to an arrest. This allows a police officer to search a person who has been lawfully arrested. The main idea is that the person is being taken into custody by the police, and the…
This time of year, around the July 4th holiday, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, Florida Highway Patrol and other local law enforcement agencies are out in force looking to stop people for traffic violations and make DUI arrests. The local Jacksonville area police focus on DUI arrests during the July 4th holiday…
In Florida, the sequence of a DUI arrest usually goes as follows: a police officer observes a person commit a traffic violation, the police officer stops the driver, the police officer allegedly observes signs that the driver is impaired by alcohol or drugs, the police officer starts a DUI investigation…