Is a police officer permitted to stop a driver with a cracked windshield in Florida? It depends. A Florida driver can be stopped problems with a windshield if the windshield violates a provision listed in Florida Statute Section 316.2952 or Section 316.610. A cracked windshield would be covered in Section…
Jacksonville Juvenile, Quintavis Seay, is only 16-years-old and charged with the homicide of a 20-year-old Jacksonville man, Jeremy Godboldt. According to local reports, Seay was involved in a physical altercation with Godboldt and his brothers. At some point, Seay allegedly shot Godboldt, who was later pronounced dead at the hospital.…
As I discussed in a recent article, the United States Supreme Court to Rule on Jacksonville Juvenile Case, Florida has harsh sentencing practices when it comes to juveniles. In fact, approximately seventy percent of all juveniles sentenced in the United States to life without parole for non-homides were charged in…
On November 9, 2009, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two Florida cases that challenged sentencing a juvenile offender to a life sentence without the possibility of parole in non-homicide cases. One case involved a Jacksonville Juvenile Defendant, Jamar Graham. At age 16, Graham committed an armed…
According to Florida Statute Section 790.23, a person that has previously been convicted of a felony cannot possess a firearm. Under Section Section 10.15 of the Florida Standard Jury Instructions, the state must prove that the convicted felon had in his care, custody, possession, or control a firearm, electric weapon/device, or…
In a Jacksonville Juvenile Criminal Case, the juvenile defendant is the party that is accused of committing a crime, not the juvenile’s parent. However, parents can be obligated to pay restitution in their child’s criminal case. Restitution is normally the amount of money or value of the property that the…
The Nassau County Sheriff’s Department led to several arrest last weekend in Yulee, Florida, a small town outside of Jacksonville. According to the Jacksonville News, the ‘Girls Gone Wild’ film crew went to The Mill Night Club where “men were allegedly encouraging women to show their breasts so they could…
Today, I learned about a game that some children play in the Jacksonville, Florida area. It is called “Man Hunt.” It appears to be a spin off of hide-n-seek and tag, but firearms are involved. According to an article entitled “How to Play Man Hunt,” the players set up a…
In Bowers v. State of Florida, the Florida Second District Court of Appeals recently affirmed a county court’s ruling that suppressed all evidence obtained during the search of a driver’s vehicle during a Florida Driving Under the Influence (DUI) stop. This ruling was based on the fact that the police officer…
A Jacksonville, Florida Child Abuse Case resulted in the Duval County State Attorney’s Office filing charges for Second-degree Murder. Jacksonville resident, Chaddrick Banks, was arrested for Aggravated Child Abuse. On October 12, 2009, the Jacksonville State Attorney’s Office filed charges for aggravated child abuse and second degree murder due to…