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A security guard who shot three men in the parking lot of a Jacksonville strip club will not be charged with a Jacksonville Gun Crime for his role in the incident. But the man whom police say drove his truck at the guard, prompting the gunfire, was charged with aggravated battery in Duval County last…

The twists and turns in the now-well known case of Clay County man Ronald Thompson took another turn last week – this one in favor of Thompson. A judge threw out his conviction on four counts of Clay County aggravated assault stemming from a September 2009 incident, according to an article in the Florida Times-Union.…

A judge in Clay County tried to take the “mandatory” out of a “minimum mandatory” sentence for an elderly man who fired two warning shots, but was instead shot down himself by a higher court. Ronald Thompson, a 65-year-old Keystone Heights man, was convicted by a jury in 2010 of four counts of aggravated assault…

A 20-year prison sentence for a Jacksonville woman convicted of aggravated assault for firing a warning shot at an allegedly abusive husband has sparked a debate about the Florida law that led to her sentence. Marissa Alexander was sentenced to 20 years in prison after a jury found her guilty earlier this year of three…

Despite the protestors and the national media attention clamoring for reconsideration, a judge denied a new trial to a woman who fired a warning shot to scare the husband she said she feared. The outrage is centered on the 20-year minimum mandatory sentence Marissa Alexander now faces at age 31, according to a report in…

A Jacksonville man is turning to police and prosecutors after his neighbor’s gun accidentally went off, sending a bullet through the wall near his stairway. The law’s response? Sorry, we can’t help you. The homeowner called police shortly after the incident – which came moments after the victim’s daughter was playing right by the staircase,…

Various crimes and patterns cycle in and out as the “hot” crime for police to make arrests for. It’s been drugs, lately child porn has been popular, it often depends on what’s in the headlines. In recent years, Jacksonville police brass have made a big public push to concentrate on stolen and illegal guns and,…

The publicity surrounding Florida’s now infamous “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law has activists digging through older cases and reinvigorating their push for dropping criminal charges or reducing sentences in Jacksonville and all over Florida. The case of Marissa Danielle Alexander is the second such case to make Jacksonville headlines lately in the wake of the…

Legal analysts for every newspaper, television station and blog have one opinion or another on last week’s announcement that 28-year-old neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman will face a second degree murder charge for shooting unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The decision came from Jacksonville’s own Angela Corey, the state attorney for Clay, Duval and Nassau counties…

Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law is now a national topic in the wake of the attention brought by the February shooting of Trayvon Martin. Other criminal cases involving that Florida affirmative defense, which allows using deadly force instead of forcing a person to retreat, are bubbling to the surface across the state. Jacksonville is…