Monthly Archives: September 2025
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel in Florida Drug Cases
If your parents’ employers were early adopters of email, then your parents probably came home from work sometimes with printouts of funny emails that their coworkers had forwarded to them, and sometimes your parents would read them out loud at the dinner table until long after it had stopped being funny. Incompetent members of… Read More »
Nelson Hearings in Florida Drug Cases
The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the rights of defendants in criminal cases to a fair trial. The text of the amendment lists several components of a fair trial but case law has further interpreted the amendment and set more specific criteria by which the court can tell whether the defendant’s… Read More »
New Amendment to the Victims of Wrongful Incarceration Compensation Act
Thanks to the “no double jeopardy” rule, an acquittal is forever, but if you get convicted of a crime, you still have a chance to make things right. If you acknowledge that you committed the crime, then the best thing to do is to get through your sentence as quickly as possible and then… Read More »
Florida Doctor Convicted of Supplying Opioids to Drug Trafficking Operation
Florida’s pill mills are the stuff of legend, but by now, they belong to the legendary past. There was a time, so the story goes, when drug dealers would make road trips to Florida from across the southeastern United States to visit shady pain clinics in strip malls, and licensed physicians would prescribe untold… Read More »
