Our drug crimes website has a fully searchable Cannabis Marijuana defense database on marijuana and drug charges inHillsborough County, Florida. This video discusses and Compares How to use probable cause and the possibility of drug charges being dismissed when police improperly search for and then seize contraband. Casey reviews Minimum Mandatory sentences may apply to…
Continue reading ›Criminal Defense experts agree that when the stakes are high, in a death penalty case, a Judge has to be extremely careful. 10, 15, or 20 years later when the ultimate price is to be paid the courts will be very careful to avoid executing someone who has not received a fair trial. Judge William…
Continue reading ›Florida Criminal Defense Attorney has been researching a new law that may make anyone with a cell phone or computer with Internet access a person possessing an illegal gambling device. Specifically, the definition of “slot machine” may now include most web devices. When a law captures innocent conduct it can be void for vagueness. The…
Continue reading ›Search Warrant for Cell Phone Handset Required Florida Supreme Court Says a police officer is not authorized to search through photographs and information within a cell phone that was on defendant at time of arrest. Cell phone had been separated from defendant at time of search. Factually, images from defendant’s cell phone depicted a weapon that…
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Continue reading ›Crime scene evidence goes here for prosecution of cases by the Pinellas State Attorney’s Office. Located across the street from the Courthouse and the jail. Evidence Used Against You? Call Casey at (813) 222-2220.
Continue reading ›TrueCrypt and the Fifth Amendment Federal Defense Attorney just won a case where the defendant was ordered to decrypt a hard drive the government had lawfully seized. Feds tried to force a defendant to give up a password used to encrypt several hard drives using TrueCrypt. Case Excerpts: “The Fifth Amendment protects Doe’s refusal to decrypt and produce the contents of the media devices because the act…
Continue reading ›ESI Discovery in Federal Criminal Cases Federal Criminal Defense Attorney just received an excellent checklist and list of principles to be applied in electronic discovery in criminal cases. Thanks to our Federal defense lawyer for this excellent outline. Below the principles are a quick ESI checklist. “Today, most information is created and stored electronically. The advent of electronically stored information (ESI)…
Continue reading ›911 Recording Violates Wiretap Statute Florida Criminal Defense Attorney notes that a call from a 911 dispatcher TO a crime scene violated the Florida Wiretap Statute “section 934.03(2)(g)2, which the court broadly construed to allow an emergency agency to intercept and record any wire communication in order to acquire necessary information to render aid and assistance.” Complete Opinion…
Continue reading ›Tampa Federal Criminal Defense Attorney was just informed that a Florida Lawyer’s Mail Fraud conviction in a United States District Court in Florida was eviscerated by the 11th Circuit: “A jury convicted Joseph T. Lander on mail fraud and money laundering charges related to two separate fraudulent schemes, and he appealed. The Eleventh Circuit held…
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