A 97-year-old St. Augustine woman has already been declared incompetent to stand trial in the shooting death of her nephew, yet the state wants to keep her in jail until more mental health evaluations can be done. For now, Amanda Stevenson will remain in the St. Johns County jail while she is evaluated again by…
Continue reading ›A Jacksonville man died last week, five days after being run over by a car in a parking lot shortly after the bars closed at the Jacksonville Landing. Taylor Evans, 22, was hit by man driving a truck, apparently fleeing from a group of people chasing and beating him, according to a report in the…
Continue reading ›As a Jacksonville Criminal Trial Lawyer, I follow the criminal trials and their results in Duval, Clay and Nassau Counties. A recent high profile murder case this week ended in a mistrial. According to an article in the Florida Times Union, Andrew King has to have another Jacksonville trial because the jury could not come…
Continue reading ›A man shot and killed by Jacksonville police last month was one of five teens convicted in the brutal 1993 shooting of a female corrections officer. Of those five, three received life sentences, according to the Florida Times-Union. Two others testified against the group and got 15 years. One of those two was Thomas McMullen.…
Continue reading ›Child abuse cases in Jacksonville and all over the United States are considered very serious. Five children are in the government’s care after two of the kids were found bound and with blindfolds over their eyes in a parking lot in Lawrence, Kansas. According to an article on abc.com, the family consisting of a man,…
Continue reading ›The man police found unresponsive in the passenger seat of a Nissan Altima that had been crashed into a light pole and an abandoned house died at the hospital last week. But doctors say he didn’t die from the car accident and detectives told News4Jax.com he had a bullet or stab wound – and that…
Continue reading ›A man whose trial made national headlines and was convicted of shooting his wife to death on a St. Johns County beach is seeking a new trial, claiming his criminal defense attorneys didn’t do their job. Among Justin Barber’s chief complaints – that his first criminal defense team was focused solely on a trial and…
Continue reading ›Julian White, Jacksonville native and former FAMU band director, claims he is not responsible for the hazing related death of band member Robert Champion in November, according to a Florida Times Union report. Champion was severely beaten aboard a chartered bus after a FAMU football game as part of a hazing ritual and died of…
Continue reading ›Last month the Jacksonville Beach Municipal Golf Course turned into a battle field as two golf parties laid into each other. A group of young men were celebrating a bachelor party with a day at the links. Meanwhile a group of elderly men and women were playing behind them, trying to have a serious game.…
Continue reading ›It’s not just the repeat offenders and career criminals that find themselves looking a serious time down the road. Sometimes a snap decision – albeit a very bad one – in the heat of the moment can have someone facing decades behind bars. James Alonzo Hines, 61, is in that boat now after an afternoon…
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