Areas Of Defense

False Imprisonment means to forcibly, by threat, or secretly confining, abducting, imprisoning, or restraining another person without lawful authority and against her or his will.

Nothing will turn your life upside down quite like a DUI in Florida.  These cases are prosecuted extremely aggressively even before the case reaches the courthouse.  Once you are arrested for DUI you will be fighting 2 separate cases simultaneously.  The first case happens immediately and it is against the DMV.  The DMV will suspend […]

In Florida, driving while your driver’s license is suspended, revoked, cancelled or disqualified is a crime only if you knew that your license was suspended.  This charge is prosecuted in County Court because it is a misdemeanor.

Drug charges can cover a wide range of different types of offenses, some of which are simple misdemeanors with minimal consequences, and could even potentially be Sealed or Expunged off of your record.  On the other hand, there is also a wide range of offenses that are classified as Felonies.

Drug Charges can have an especially serious effect on your life, career and education. Many defendants charged with Drug Offenses are immediately at risk of losing their jobs, some people could be at risk of losing housing and potential for suspension or expulsion from school.

Under Florida law, Domestic Violence Battery by Strangulation is defined under Section 784.041, Florida Statutes.  A Domestic Violence Battery by Strangulation arrest or charge on your record can be extremely disruptive to your life. 

Under Florida law, Domestic Violence defined under Section 784.28, Florida Statutes. Domestic Violence means any assault, aggravated assault, kidnapping, stalking, aggravated stalking, false imprisonment or any criminal offense resulting in physical injury or death to a member of ones family or household.

Disorderly intoxication is committed when you are intoxicated and endanger the safety of another person or property and are drinking or intoxicated in public and cause a disturbance. In other words, the disorderly intoxication statute was written to prevent people from causing a disturbance and/or fighting in public while intoxicated.  It is a very general category to describe these certain behaviors.  But more accurately, it describes a Disorderly Conduct + Alcohol.

Disorderly Conduct falls into a category of crimes that is very general.  Arrests for Disorderly Conduct often arise when a police officer finds your behavior to be rude or unruly.  This opens the public up for potentially overzealous police officers to abuse their powers and arrest people they simply find “offensive”.  It is an excuse for a police officer to take you off of the street.  The crime of Disorderly Conduct is very hard for the State Attorney to prove.

Dealing in Stolen Property refers to behavior involving buying and selling of property that you knew or should have known was stolen.  Most often, these charges come about when you allegedly sell an item at a pawn shop that turns out to be stolen.  The owner of the item will come forward, the pawn shop […]