Jacksonville Criminal Defense Attorney Blog

Seeing a professional athlete get pinched on a drug possession charge or a DUI is hardly headline news these days. But when a Chicago Bears wide receiver was arrested last week accused of trying to set up a weekly $700,000 purchase of marijuana and cocaine, heads turned. Especially when a report surfaced that the feds…

As a Jacksonville DUI Attorney, I have represented hundreds of people arrested for DUI in Duval, Clay and Nassau Counties. Many DUI arrests in Jacksonville occur over the holidays. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office steps up DUI enforcement and the officers look for any reason to pull someone over. To pull you over legally, the police…

The behind-the-scenes legal wrangling continues to unfold around a 12-year-old boy charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 2-year-old half-brother. The latest turn came last week when a judge denied a criminal defense motion to block the state from taking a new Jacksonville sex charge to the grand jury for a possible second…

An Edward Waters College student has filed an internal complaint with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office after police pointed a gun at him during a traffic stop. The student was on his way to work after class about 1:30 p.m. Thursday when police said they pulled him over because his grey Crown Victoria matched the description…

If the police come a knocking, you don’t have to talk to them. But, if you do, tell the truth. Lying to the cops can get you in a mountain of trouble – just look at former Raines High School principal George Maxey. Maxey was forced out of his high-profile job at the northwest Jacksonville…

Jerry Sandusky has been all over the news recently. He is accused of multiple child sex charges in Pennsylvania, but his case is very typical of sex cases. The public is quick to judge the accused based only on accusations. All most people have to hear is that there has been an accusation of a…

While presiding over a murder sentencing last week, a Jacksonville judge talked about the Florida Supreme Court’s practice of reversing death sentences when the only qualifying factor is that the killing occurred during the commission of a felony. But Circuit Judge Adrian G. Soud said this case was different and chose the death penalty for…

A New Jersey man was lured out of his hotel room last week by a woman who said she was an undercover police officer and told him his car was hit in the parking lot. Once the man got outside, another woman pulled a knife on him and demanded money, according to a report by…

David Kelsey Sparre didn’t even try to prove his innocence last week facing a first-degree murder charge for killing a woman he met through an ad on Craigslist. He admitted to responding to her personal ad, having sex with her and stabbing her to death, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. But he…

With one murder conviction and a life sentence in the books, the state attorney’s office is planning at least one more trial in hopes of getting the death penalty for DeShawn Leon Green. Green is accused of three killings in a five-month span in 2009. He was found guilty of first-degree murder in the first…