Jacksonville Criminal Defense Attorney Blog

A judge ruled St. Johns County should not have immediately condemned the home rented by a couple now charged with growing marijuana. The judge ruled this week the couple could return to their home for two weeks to gather personal items, as well as the fish living in seven aquariums that may or may not…

The state Supreme Court this month tossed out a 70-year sentence given to a Jacksonville boy who was 14 at the time he committed an armed robbery. The defendant, now 20, will have to be resentenced, as will likely hundreds of defendants across the state who received similar lengthy sentences, according to a report in…

Police arrested and charged a man this month with a sexual battery that started more than 50 years ago. An investigation began in December after a person called police to report the man, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. The man is charged with capital sexual battery, a life felony that carries a…

An important witness in the state’s case against a 12-year-old accused of first-degree murder has pleaded guilty to a separate crime. The now 17-year-old gave police information on where to find the 12-year-old accused of shooting a homeless person in the head in June, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. The teen also…

A Jacksonville man was arrested this month after speeding away from police in what appears to have been a stolen car. Police started looking for the driver after someone called 911 saying the car was speeding and almost hit a motorcycle, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. The chase reached speeds of 70…

A string of undercover operations in Nassau County led to more than 20 arrests on serious felony charges over the past several months. All of the charges are for selling drugs in what police dubbed Operation No Trap Zone and rolled out to the media this month, complete with 20 mug shots of the people…

Two juries in the same courtroom came to different conclusions in the cases of two men charged with first-degree murder in what police described as a drug-related killing. One man was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder for his role in the death of two Jacksonville brothers who were shot and killed in their…

A motorcyclist was arrested this month on two serious felonies, charged with DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide in an August crash that killed a pedestrian. The driver is accused of going between 70 and 80 mph on a road with a 30 mph speed limit, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. A 23-year-old…

Prosecutors and law enforcement held a big press conference two years ago, announcing what appeared to be the beginning of a major statewide gambling bust – with dozens arrested and more supposedly to follow. As it turned out, those 57 arrests were the only arrests ever made and only one person was convicted and sentenced…

Prosecutors have changed course and are now charging a 15-year-old boy as an adult in four fires police say were deliberately set in a Jacksonville neighborhood. Fire officials were investigating the fires to three vacant homes and a car in a Jacksonville neighborhood and told police a person had been seen near all of the…