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The Duval County state attorney had a man charged with second-degree murder and two counts of aggravated battery for allegedly killing one and injuring two in a 2007 fight. But a Jacksonville jury this month found Joshula T. Oliver guilty of a reduced charge of manslaughter and not guilty of the two Jacksonville battery charges,…

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…

A federal jury in Jacksonville found a Georgia woman did not intentionally injure several people when she drove her car into a cyclist, a motor scooter and several cars in Ponte Vedra Beach in 2010. Andrea Zampatti has cleared one hurdle with that verdict in the civil case. Now, she moves onto the criminal courtroom…

A man serving a life sentence for robbing a Jacksonville cell phone store has now been charged with the 2011 killing of a Jacksonville woman and police say the robbery and her death are connected. Police arrested Kenneth Thompson last week and charged him with murder in the death of Michelle McCoy, who was last…

Florida’s now infamous “Stand Your Ground” law will get another test next month, this time in the case of a Jacksonville woman charged with second-degree murder for stabbing her boyfriend to death. Jennifer Charlotte Goodman, 32m, is charged with murder for stabbing her on-again, off-again boyfriend Anthony Norman in the chest and killing him during…

A FAMU band member whom a judge said played a “minimal role” in the 2011 hazing and beating death of Robert Champion was sentenced last week to probation and community service. Brian Jones had pleaded no contest to felony hazing charges, a third-degree felony in Florida punishable by up to five years in prison. He…

The credibility of a Jacksonville police officer is in serious doubt after he admitted in a court hearing he lied to a Jacksonville criminal defense attorney in a case where police destroyed key evidence. The testimony came in a hearing last week about the Jacksonville police destroying a metal pipe Duval Countycriminal defense attorneys say…

A Jacksonville jury did not think Duval County state attorneys proved Thomas James Moore was the person who killed and raped Donna Morris in 1990, finding Moore not guilty last week. What the jury didn’t know, though, was that Moore has already been sentenced to death for a 1993 murder where robbed, killed and set…

A Chicago Bears fan died after his throat was slashed this month and a man police have described as a jealous husband has been charged with murder. Chris Pettry’s neck was slashed with a pocketknife by a man who he’d been speaking with earlier in the evening, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union.…

The legal chess match continues to be interesting theater in the case of Cristian Fernandez, the youngest person in the state of Florida to be charged with first degree murder. Last month, a Jacksonville judge threw out video interviews of police interrogations of Fernandez, ruling that the then-12-year-old did not understand that he was waiving…