Florida’s stand your ground statute has been a controversial law ever since it was enacted. The law is once more front and center in a criminal case involving the intentional shooting at an apartment complex in Four Corners, an unincorporated section of south Orlando....
Domestic violence victims in Florida have been caught in the middle of a corruption investigation involving the CEO of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence Foundation as it appears that the former CEO has been funneling foundation funding into her personal...
Some Florida residents might be confused about the difference between larceny and theft. The definitions are easy to combine, since larceny is a type of theft. However, some types of theft are not larcenies. Larceny is a criminal offense that involves a person taking...
Police in Florida have reported that they have solved the 1991 murder case that became known as the “Valentine Jane Doe Homicide.” The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and police in Texas used DNA samples to identify both the...
Police officers in Florida and around the country are required to advise the suspects they take into custody that they have the right to remain silent and ask for a lawyer. This is known as a Miranda warning because the requirement to issue it was laid down by the...
A Florida woman whose case has appeared on both the TV show "COPS" and a season premiere of the Oxygen channel show "Murder For Hire" is fighting through her attorney to get a new trial. She was accused of trying to hire someone to murder her husband and is serving a...
According to a report from the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, a man stabbed both himself and his roommate in an effort to release Satan. Law Enforcement arrived on April 29 in Sanford to find a 25-year-old man and his roommate outside of an apartment building. The...
Two Florida men were charged with murder after a fatal shooting that killed an 18-year-old Florida high school girl and injured her boyfriend. The incident took place in Miami and reportedly involved a meeting for a shoe sale that had been arranged earlier on social...
Many people in Florida believe that they would never confess to a crime they did not commit. However, the facts show that many people do, in fact, confess to crimes that they were not responsible for. In many cases, these false confessions have led to wrongful...
While marijuana has been legalized for medical purposes in a majority of states and recreational purposes in 11 states, it can still result in criminal charges in Florida as well as in every other state. Even though marijuana has gained much more acceptance in the...
