Blog GET MY GPS OFF, Battery, Domestic Violence Date: 03-02-2018 If you have been arrested for battery domestic violence, or battery domestic violence by strangulation, you may have been ordered to wear a GPS device upon your release from jail. It’s important for you to know that you can have the GPS removed after filing a motion with the court. […]
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DUI, Reckless Driving for the Commercial Driver
Blog DUI, Reckless Driving for the Commercial Driver Date: 06-21-2014 If you have been arrested for DUI, or Reckless driving, or any other traffic violation and you have a commercial driver’s license you already know that the consequences for you are different from that of the non-commercial driver. Pursuant to the relatively new federal regulation 49 CFR 384.226 […]
Officer wants your cell phone, resisting arrest
Blog Officer wants your cell phone, resisting arrest Date: 03-20-2014 The other day I was interviewed by Rene Stutzman, staff writer for the Orlando Sentinel. Ms. Stutzman wrote a piece, Police Seizing Cell Phones; A Civil Rights Issue, (the full article is below), in a lawsuit where the arrestee is suing the police because an officer […]
Battery Domestic Violence GPS
Blog Battery Domestic Violence GPS Date: 02-15-2014 Yesterday I attended the Orange County Bar Association Criminal Law Section’s continuing legal education course on domestic violence. The Honorable Judge Nancy Clark, who is a judge in the Ninth Judicial Circuit County Court in and for Orange County, was the presenter and did a phenomenal job. I also had two cases […]
DUI, Refusing A Breath Test, Refusing Field Sobriety Exercises
Blog DUI, Refusing A Breath Test, Refusing Field Sobriety Exercises Date: 02-12-2014 People always ask, should I do the field sobriety exercises, should I take a breath test. There is no easy answer to these questions. Your life circumstances and immediate circumstances affect the answers to these questions. However, a situation that does arise is […]
Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapon Stand Your Ground and Self Defense
Blog Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapon Stand Your Ground and Self Defense Date: 10-10-2013 There was outrage in the streets of Florida, or at a minimum in the media. George Zimmerman gets away with killing a black teenager while using a firearm, and a black woman, Marissa Alexander was sentenced to 20 years in prison after […]
DUI, Blood test, McNeely vs. Schmerber and Florida Statute 316.1933 (DUI Lawyer in Seminole County)
Blog DUI, Blood test, McNeely vs. Schmerber and Florida Statute 316.1933 (DUI Lawyer in Seminole County) Date: 08-24-2013 Recently, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in the case of Missouri v. Tyler G. McNeely. Justice Sonya Sotomayer, writing for the Court, held “that natural dissipation of alcohol in the bloodstream does not constitute an […]
Charged with Possession of Cocaine? Appellate Court Reversing Convictions
Blog Charged with Possession of Cocaine? Appellate Court Reversing Convictions Date: 08-24-2013 Updated on: 11/29/20 Just yesterday, August 23rd, 2013, the Fifth District Court of Appeals (the appellate court for Seminole County, Orange County, Volusia County and Brevard County) released two opinions (neither opinion is final until the time for rehearing has passed, i.e., 15 days) where both defendants’ […]
Driving While License Suspended or Revoked Habitual Traffic Offender
Blog Driving While License Suspended or Revoked Habitual Traffic Offender Date: 08-23-2013 Have you entered a plea to driving while license suspended or revoked pursuant to Florida Statute 322.34 and found out later that your driver’s license would be suspended for five years? You may be eligible to withdraw your plea pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.172. […]
DUI Seminole County Florida Amendments to the License Suspension Statute
Blog DUI Seminole County Florida Amendments to the License Suspension Statute Date Updated: 07-15-2017 On July 1st of 2013, the statute, Florida Statute 322.2615, governing the license suspension as a result of being arrested for DUI in Florida changed. Before I address the changes lets discuss the process. You were arrested for DUI in the State of Florida, […]