Jacksonville Criminal Defense Attorney Blog

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…

Police broke up the second meth lab in six weeks at a Jacksonville motel, the latest in a string of raids cracking down on methamphetamine production in Northeast Florida. Investigators had found a meth lab in the same motel near the Clay County line in May, arresting four people in Jacksonville at that time, according…

More than all other accusations, being accused of a sex crime in Jacksonville or anywhere else carries a lifetime of potential problems. In most of the cases I have handled as a Duval County Sex Crime Attorney, there is little to no physical evidence. All it takes is one person saying they were violated. HBO,…

A ruling this month from an appellate court in Daytona Beach would allow police to search a suspect’s cell phone without first obtaining a warrant. The state argued that law enforcement should be allowed to look at the contents of the phone that they can access and should not need to get a warrant first,…

The Jacksonville Criminal Defense Attorney at our Duval County Domestic Battery Law Firm has represented hundreds of people charged with all kinds of violent crimes in Florida. There are several Jacksonville crimes that are considered violent, such as Domestic Battery, Domestic Violence Assault, Aggravated Battery, etc. A man featured in the television show, “Swamp People”…

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.…

Our Jacksonville Sex Crime Law Firm keeps tabs on criminal law changes, especially sex crime legislation around the country. A newly passed law in Louisiana will make registered sex offenders post their status on social media websites. A report on CBS news says the law aims to punish the offender with this law the same…

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…

As a Jacksonville Sex Crime Attorney, I follow high profile sex charge cases and the case against Jerry Sandusky is about as high profile as it gets. Sandusky is currently on trial for numerous sex crime accusations. Although Sandusky himself did not take the stand in his own defense, his wife, Dottie, did. According to…

Shortly after school lets out and the kids are no longer worried about finals and papers, some Jacksonville-area police departments heighten their awareness of partying by teen-agers. And parents need to be aware that they can be held criminally responsible if parties with drugs or alcohol being consumed by minors happen under their watch. St.…