Jacksonville Criminal Defense Attorney Blog

In rare move for Jacksonville prosecutors, the state dropped a first-degree murder charge against a Jacksonville man and instead allowed him to plead guilty to lesser charges that now amount to five years in prison. Keir Delancy instead pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and attempted manslaughter, according to a…

A well-known Jacksonville police union president and the alleged mastermind of a $300 million gambling racket are among several suspects who had bond reduced and posted enough money to get out of jail while awaiting trial. The case, which involves gambling at internet cafes where the proceeds were purported to be going to a veterans’…

The state released video surveillance and other evidence to the media last week in the case of a Jacksonville man accused of slitting the throat of an out-of-town football fan that had been talking to his wife. The release came about one month after a motion from Matthew Hinson’s Jacksonville Criminal Defense Attorney to prevent…

A Jacksonville police officer will appear before an internal police review board to face possible discipline for running a stop sign and causing an accident that injured three people. The officer also suffered minor injuries, but was not hospitalized following the crash last week, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. The injuries to…

For the second time in less than a year, a Jacksonville jury was unable to come to an agreement as to whether Andrew King was guilty of killing his girlfriend’s pregnant roommate. A Duval County jury deliberated for a full day last week and then reported back to the judge that it was hopelessly deadlocked…

A jury last week opted against a first-degree murder conviction in a case where a Jacksonville man was accused of strangling his girlfriend and jurors instead chose to find him guilty of second-degree murder. While it may seem like a minor technicality, it could have a significant impact on the sentence Kevin Jones ultimately receives…

Several inmates at the Clay County Jail who had earned privileges to work during their sentence are now looking at more time behind bars after police cracked a smuggling ring in recent months. Girlfriends of the inmates would allegedly leave drugs, cigarettes and batteries in bathrooms of the places these men worked, including the county…

A Jacksonville man was sentenced last week to 15 years in state prison for a crash that killed his best friend in 2010. Klay Williams was convicted of DUI manslaughter in January and was facing up to 15 years in prison, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. The judge this week handed down…

A former Jacksonville police officer will not lose his city pension, despite his conviction for molesting young girls. Richard Cannon was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual battery on a victim younger than 18 in Jacksonville and attempted sexual battery on a girl younger than 12, according to a report…

A bizarre story of an alleged domestic argument followed by what appears to be make-up sex on Jacksonville Beach landed both the boyfriend and girlfriend in jail last week. Police were called after witnesses said Kathy Granone and her boyfriend David Aiuppy were arguing and throwing objects out of their car in a Jacksonville Beach…