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A 36-year-old man sentenced to life in prison without parole when he was 15, and a 20-year-old man sentenced to 70 years in prison when he was 14 are but two of potentially hundreds of Florida inmates serving sentences that were imposed when they were juveniles who...
The recent announcement of a merger between American food industry companies Kraft Foods and H.J. Heinz, has received a lot of attention in the media. While perhaps best known for Kraft Macaroni and Cheese and Heinz ketchup respectively, both businesses own numerous...
In a recent post, we explained the truth about field sobriety tests. If a police officer suspects that you have been drinking and driving, the officer may ask you to complete a field sobriety test to evaluate whether you are intoxicated. What happens if you...
Crimes can be loosely categorized as being of two types: violent and nonviolent. Those in the latter category, which often consist of a variety of ways of depriving others of money or property, include the kinds of crimes colloquially known as "white collar" crimes....
In the life of a business there are often many twists and turns. This is true regardless of the nature of the business. In some cases a company will consider and possibly pursue a merge with another one. This action can be prompted by a variety of things. We will...
Sometimes the U.S. Supreme Court addresses questions of law that are of monumental significance on their face, such as when a criminal suspect must be informed of his or her legal rights upon arrest. On other occasions, however, the importance of a Court decision is...
The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that drivers who get into an accident but who do not realize it cannot be convicted of leaving the scene of a crash.The case arose out of an accident that happened in Boca Raton in 2007, when a skateboarder accidentally fell into a...
For some individuals, starting a business is a dream come true. As anyone who has been through this process can likely attest, there are many components that must be addressed to even get the business off the ground. In a previous post, we discussed one of those...
Recently we posted about a decision of the Florida Supreme Court which would allow a convicted felon to use a firearm for self-defense under the state's "stand your ground" rule. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering the case of a Florida man, regarding the...
Can an act of consensual sex constitute a felony under Florida law? That is the question that the Florida Supreme Court considered recently in a case involving two men who engaged in sex, one of whom was HIV-positive and failed to warn his partner in advance of his...