Wrongful arrests or false arrests pertain to technical legal definitions concerning police behavior in detaining and arresting someone. There are very specific factors that make an arrest wrongful or false. There are two criteria which you would have to demonstrate in order to prove that you were arrested wrongly or falsely and those are: 1)you […]
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Last November, Florida voters voted to expand the rights of crime victims. Provisions of the law include requirements crime victims be informed of their rights and the services available to them, an entitlement to updates on criminal proceedings, a right to know about meetings between the accused and state attorneys before plea deals agreed to,
Entrapment is used in criminal proceedings when the accused has been induced by law enforcement to commit a crime that he/she was not predisposed to commit. It is based on the idea that is it is fundamentally unjust for law enforcement or other government agents to originate a criminal design, implant in an innocent person’s
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We’re on the cusp of another New Year’s Eve night during which many of us will have too much to drink and make foolish, life-altering decisions. It’s simple, don’t do something you’ll regret tomorrow afternoon. You can avoid all the headache by planning ahead right now. If you have plans to go out and drink,
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Mike Williams went missing nearly 18 years ago while on a hunting trip at Lake Seminole near the Florida-Georgia border. He went with his close friend Brian Winchester as he had many times before. This trip was different. It was the day of his wedding anniversary and Williams had told his wife Denise he’d return
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The murder trial of John Jonchuk will begin in a few months but the controversy has already started. Jonchuk faces a first-degree murder charge for the death of his five-year-old daughter, Phoebe. Police say a detective saw Jonchuck throw his daughter Phoebe off of the Dick Misener Bridge in the middle of the night in January
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Those are words Floridians aren’t hearing so much these days. There are more than 238,000 warrants for arrest in Florida. The crimes associated with these arrests range from the worst to the least serious. Why are these warrants outstanding? Judges, law enforcement officials and reformers across the country say the glut of warrants overwhelms the
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Raimundo Atesiano, the former Biscayne Park chief of police, was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for framing three innocent men for burglaries in the small town north of Miami. As chief, Atesiano wanted to solve the burglaries and ensure the community that they were safe. He chose crime to make that point and
Holiday parties, office closings, relatives visiting all lead to one thing-a dramatic increase in drunk driving arrests in the Bay area. The past few months, we’ve already witnessed a rash of wrong-way crashes on the Howard Franklin Bridge. Most recently, a 78-year-old man was arrested for DUI after driving the wrong way on McMullen Booth
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Christopher Precopia was in a heap of trouble and he knew it. A former girlfriend said that two days earlier, he had broken into her home and sliced an “X” into her chest with a box cutter. The two dated several years earlier, but Precopia couldn’t remember the last time the two had contact. Now he
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