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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,...
When someone is charged for a crime, there are two things that must be proven in order for the charges to stick. These two factors are proof that a crime was committed and that you are the one who committed the crime. When being represented by a skilled criminal...
The ultimate purpose of our criminal justice system is to convict the guilty and clear the innocent. Sometimes, unfortunately more often than not, certain situations arise that can cloud the judgment of those making these decisions and can cause the innocent to be...
There are several different classifications for murder, each dependent on how the event is carried out. In past blog posts, I’ve covered the different degrees of murder, and have touched on third degree murder, which is where crimes of passion are often found. In the...
It doesn't happen often, but it happens more than it should - a wrongful arrest due to mistakes made during a police report. When it happened to Florida man, Adam Thornton, it changed his life completely. According to an article in Bradenton, Adam Thornton called 911...
