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A few years ago, the Governor of Illinois imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in that state because of his well-founded fear that wrongfully-convicted people might be executed.  Then, just last month, the American Bar Association issued a report in which it identified numerous problems with Ohio's existing death-penalty scheme.  No doubt many of those […]

This is the problem with breath-testing machines in Florida DUI cases: a couple of numbers are spit out of a machine that very few people understand. Those numbers say that the person arrested was driving with a breath-alcohol level that was over the legal limit. Those numbers are, in turn, presented to a jury who […]

One thing is certain: when the police are called to an assault and battery in Florida, someone is going to get arrested, and it's almost always the man. When that happens, I often receive a frantic phone call from a wife or girlfriend saying that she didn't intend for her husband or boyfriend to go […]

There are many things to consider when hiring a Florida criminal attorney. The following is a list of some (but by no means all) of the things that you should consider when hiring a criminal lawyer in the State of Florida:  Be certain that the attorney you intend to hire actually handles criminal cases. Don’t hire […]

Federal drug laws can sometimes lead to paradoxical results. Consider the following story from the Drug Law Blog: The United States Gets Tough on Methamphetamine By Locking Up All Its Cold Medicine, Forcing Tweakers To Import Speed From Mexico Instead and Messing Up the Formula For Nyquil. In March, President Bush signed the renewal of […]

Globe reporter Gary Greenberg gives his impressions as a juror in a criminal trial where Ron Chapman served as the defense counsel.   [See a PDF copy (8MB) of the original article here.]   Globe Crime Extra "I, The Juror" Our man tells what it's like sitting on murder jury in case of Viet vet […]

FORT PIERCE ˜ Leonard Bogdan was either the head of a complicated scheme to fleece investors out of millions or a poor manager who tried but couldn't revive a failing business venture. Those two very different versions of Bogdan were presented to jurors during opening statements Tuesday as his federal fraud trial began. Bogdan, 55, […]