New Florida police officers are required to undergo 770 hours of training at a police academy while barbers who want to be licensed in the Sunshine State are required to take 1,200 hours of coursework, according to a local media outlet. Now, as the article points out, that is a minimum requirement and some Florida …
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When my client Kathleen Denardi enrolled in the Law Enforcement Academy at St. Petersburg College Allstate Center, she was fulfilling a dream to serve the community as a law enforcement officer. She knew the training would be intense, both physically and intellectually. What she didn’t count on was the physical and emotional abuse she endured. …
False arrest is everyone’s nightmare scenario. Conviction for a false arrest is a sentence that never ends. Today’s edition of the Tampa Bay Times features a story about a possible false arrest and false imprisonment case. In June of 1988, Leo Schofield was indicted on a first degree murder charge of his wife. He was …
I filed a civil lawsuit in Pinellas County this week on behalf of my client Carleen Tetreault against the St. Petersburg Police Department for an incident that occurred at her home on June 8, 2015. On the day in question, Carleen had returned to her home in St. Petersburg after a cancer treatment. That afternoon, …