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Many Floridian drivers may forget that driving is not a right, but rather a privilege. The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) may suspend an individual´s driver´s license for numerous reasons. Many of those reasons have nothing to do with one´s ability to drive, which...
What You Need To Know About Sexual Assault Law In Florida. People who are charged with a sex crime in Florida should be aware of the nature of the charges, as well as the possible penalties they may face upon conviction. Sexual assault is any actual, threatened, or...
What is Drug Possession? The Florida Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act lists a variety of drugs that are considered “controlled substances”, which are regulated by the state and federal government. The drugs are classified as “schedules”: Schedule...
The Criminal Punishment Code (CPC) is a scoring system that was implemented in 1998 to ensure uniform, proportional and unbiased minimum sentencing decisions for all felony crimes. With this code, each felony offense is assigned an Offense Level between 1 and 10, 10...
Henry Sireci * was convicted in the stabbing death of Howard Poteet in 1976. His attorneys had been seeking DNA testing in this case, and Attorney General Ashley Moody is looking to stop such testing. Recently, a Florida circuit court judge ruled that the Attorney...
Businesses use trademarks to help consumers identify their products and to protect themselves against intellectual property theft. A trademark is a word(s) or symbol legally registered by use as resenting a product or company. When an individual or a company uses...
In the United States, the legal system acknowledges two bodies of law: civil cases and criminal cases. The former is filed by a private party, which usually is an individual or a corporation, against another private party, where they dispute legal duties and...
One of the objectives of Criminal Law prosecution is Incapacitation, which means restricting a person´s freedom as punishment for a certain criminal act. Ideally, only people who are guilty would be convicted and punished accordingly. However, it is fair to say that...
It is widely believed that children or minors don´t have the same mental process and judgment that an adult may have. This being said, minors might do things to get them arrested, and not having a clean record may cause some problems in their future. Having an arrest...
You may have heard someone refer to their alibi in a tv show or movie as a means to explain why they couldn’t have committed a crime they may be accused of. So what is an alibi? It’s provable evidence that you were somewhere else when a crime took place. For example,...
