Most people understand that when they have a private conversations with their lawyers about an existing or potential case, whether criminal or civil, those conversations are supposed to remain confidential. This is referred to as the attorney-client privilege, and it means that no one can compel the attorney or the…
I found an article showing Polk County, Florida (about four hours south of Jacksonville, Florida) police officers serving a search warrant looking for drugs. They did not realize that the owner of the house set up surveillance cameras in his house. While some of the police officers appeared to be…
In a recent case near Jacksonville, Florida a defendant was charged with the sex crimes of lewd or lascivious exhibition and transmitting an image harmful to minors by an electronic device. The criminal charges stemmed from an undercover operation during which a police officer posed as a thirteen year old…
Recent statistics show that there were over 1.7 million arrests on drug charges in the United States in 2008. One might expect that many of these arrests targeted the more serious drug offenses like trafficking and manufacturing dangerous drugs like cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. That was not the case. Of…
I read a good article on identify theft from the Miami paper. The article discusses how the crime of identity theft is not only becoming much more prevalent, but is also becoming harder to detect. This is the case in Florida and throughout the country. The following are some of…
Every now and then, a driver in Jacksonville, Florida and other areas of Florida will come across a DUI roadblock and get stopped by the police who are randomly looking for people driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. We all should know that normally the police cannot stop…
In a recent trafficking in methamphetamine and marijuana case, the police went to the house of the suspect with a warrant for his arrest. The police officers knocked on the door without announcing who they were and why they were there. The police officers then opened the door and found…
Consider a fairly common situation where a police officer makes a traffic stop of a vehicle. The police officer testifies that he saw the driver shuffling around in the vehicle as if he was trying to hide or grab something, such as a gun or illegal drugs. In this case,…
Several fence contractors were arrested for fraud in the Jacksonville, Florida area, according to an article on Firstcoasnews.com. The allegations are that the contractors took money from the victims but failed to perform the requested work. When the state prosecutes contractors for fraud, these cases are not as clear as…
In a recent drug case south of Jacksonville, Florida, the defendant’s drug charges were thrown out after the court ruled that the police officer was not authorized to enter the defendant’s home and any drugs that were found in his home were illegally seized. In this case, police officers responded…