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  In the federal case of the United States versus Michael McIntosh, Mr. McIntosh was charged with committing the crimes of bankruptcy fraud and money laundering because of his failure to disclose during his bankruptcy proceeding that he had received certain money and deposited some of that money into a bank account that he controlled through an unincorporated […]

  The facts in the case of Huey Lee Oldham versus the State of Florida are as follows:   Deputies from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office went to Mr. Oldham's home to investigate a neighbor's complaint that Oldham was manufacturing methamphetamine on his property. As deputies approached the home, they made contact with Oldham who was walking away from […]

  In the federal case of the United States versus Theresa Kottwitz, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the trial judge erred when he refused to give a jury instruction on Kottwitz' good-faith reliance on the advice of her accountant in a tax fraud prosecution. The Court of Appeals stated that a criminal […]

  In the recent United States Supreme Court case of Chunon Bailey versus the United States, the facts were as follows:   While police were preparing to execute a warrant to search a basement apartment for a handgun, detectives sitting inside an unmarked car outside the apartment saw two men—later identified as Chunon Bailey and Bryant […]

In the U.S. Supreme Court case of the State of Michigan versus Lamar Evans, the facts were as follows: After the prosecution rested its case at Lamar Evans' arson trial, the judge granted Evans' motion for a directed verdict of acquittal, concluding that the prosecutor had failed to prove that the burned building was not […]

   In the recent case of the State of Florida versus Clayton Harris, the United States Supreme Court held that a police officer had probable cause to search Mr. Harris' truck using his drug-sniffing dog. The facts of Mr. Harris' case are as follows:   Officer Wheetley pulled over Mr. Harris for a routine traffic stop. […]

             One of the things that a prosecutor must prove in order to convict someone of conspiracy to distribute drugs is that the accused person agreed with someone else to violate a particular drug law.  If the prosecutor can't prove that, then the accused person should not be found guilty.   […]

             In the case of Betsy Dieujuste versus the State of Florida, Ms. Dieujuste was convicted of the crime of conspiracy to traffic in oxycodone.  She appealed and won her case for the following reasons:             1.  A person is not guilty of conspiracy to […]

            You can be charged with felony DUI in Palm Beach County, Florida if you are charged with committing a third DUI that occurs within 10 years of a previous DUI conviction.  But how can you get that charge dismissed?               If you were […]

            DUI roadblocks are legal in Palm Beach County, Florida but only if the police do certain things that they are required by law to do such as:             1.  Have written guidelines that cover in detail the procedures which they are to follow at […]