Police were not able to prove Toddrick Ashley shot anyone in a Jacksonville mass shooting that injured 11 people in 2011, but Ashley will still serve four years in prison. There were too many people at the shooting scene to prove what exactly happened, though police said Ashley opened fire at a party of about…
Continue reading ›A judge vacated a 20-year prison sentence of Clay County man last week, getting a man initially convicted of murder a step closer to leaving prison. Jonathan David Williams was convicted in 2008 of murder and aggravated battery in Clay County for killing a man and injuring a teen after firing shots when a group…
Continue reading ›A Jacksonville woman was found guilty of second-degree murder for a second time, convicted for her role in planning the gas station robbery her boyfriend was committing when he was shot by two Jacksonville police officers in 2010. Shaketa Jones was found guilty last week in the death of Jessie Cooper, according to a report…
Continue reading ›A Brevard County man is facing a Duval County second-degree murder charge for shooting and killing a Jacksonville teen outside a Southside gas station. Michael David Dunn, 45, is being held in the Duval County jail awaiting trial for the November shooting, and the story his criminal defense lawyer is giving differs dramatically from what…
Continue reading ›A Jacksonville high school student is facing more than five years behind bars after he was arrested for having a gun on the campus of First Coast High School. Police started looking at the teen after a school security officer walked into the boys’ bathroom and saw two students trading marijuana, according to a report…
Continue reading ›Jacksonville defense attorneys are asking that charges against a Jacksonville man be dropped now that key pieces of evidence in the case have been inexplicably destroyed. A metal pipe and a tent that could have been used to prove an alternate theory in the case against Robert Lewis were discovered to be destroyed when the…
Continue reading ›Despite the prosecutor’s push for a life sentence, a Jacksonville judge sentenced a local teen to 35 years in prison for shooting another teen in 2010. Ernest Thomas Bell, 16, was just 14 at the time of the shooting and pleaded guilty to Jacksonville second-degree murder, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. Bell…
Continue reading ›Halfway through his own Jacksonville criminal trial where he is accused of attempted murder and facing up to life in prison, a Jacksonville violent crimes suspect changed his mind and opted for a Jacksonville Criminal Defense Attorney. Because of the defendant’s change of heart, the judge said he had no choice but to end the…
Continue reading ›As much black and white, letter-of-the-law work goes on in the criminal court system, it’s sometimes easy to forget that everyone involved is human. And things happen in people’s lives. That’s evident in a bizarre twist in the case of a 22-year-old Jacksonville man accused of pistol whipping former Jacksonville Jaguar wide receiver Kassim Osgood…
Continue reading ›After offering little police could use in 10 hours of interviews, one sentence a 76-year-old man said to what he thought was just himself ended up playing a major role in his murder conviction last week. John Clark Smith Jr. dodged the questions of detectives and kept his cards close to the vest during hours…
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