It was a fashion 911 of sorts. News 4 in Jacksonville reports that a Panama City male probation officer wearing a blond wig, black miniskirt and fishnet stockings was pulled over by law enforcement last week. The “guy”–Ryder Laramore– also happens to be the son of a public defender. According…
Joel Addington of the Baker County Press reported this week that more than two years after Jack Baker III slammed head-on into another vehicle in Glen St. Mary, he was sentenced to six months in county jail and five years probation in exchange for a no contest plea to DUI…
The Hernando County seat Brooksville, FL was the site for the Brooksville Police Department’s most recent undercover prostitution sting. This operation, according to Kyle Martin from the Hernando Today, took in 32 arrests this week. Arrests for Prostitution, are often the target of Motions to Dismiss or Motions to Suppress…
Despite the Marion County State Attorney’s Office offering forty years Florida State Prison and the defendant’s Florida Felony Score Sheet permitting a lower sentence of eleven years, a Circuit Judge in Ocala sentenced a man to life imprisonment this past week. Under the advice of the assigned Public Defender to…
Over the last two years, countless Florida DUI lawyers from Tampa to Brooksville to Gainesville have argued that the makers of the Intoxilyzer 8000 should have to turn over “source codes” under Florida discovery rules. The Intoxilyzer 8000 is the machine Florida law enforcement uses to test Blood Alcohol Content…
Florida DMV Offices already hold CDL drivers to a high standard – and that standard just got higher. Starting October 1st, commercial driver license holders convicted of a DUI will be ineligible to drive a commercial vehicle for 12 months after the first conviction and will be permanently suspended after…
Although many– including those at the Law Offices of Whittel & Melton, LLC— argue that a political candidate’s spouse receiving a DUI over two decades ago is not newsworthy, media coverage of Sarah Palin’s husband’s old DUI does bring to light an interesting topic with respect to DUI convictions. Unlike…
Despite a previous DUI arrest and the Florida media reporting on the exact whereabouts of DUI roadblocks, Jimmy Smith has been arrested for DUI for a second time. Both the DUI and accompanying Possession of Marijuana charge are misdemeanors–however it’s likely that State Prosecutors are aware that Smith’s prior 2001…
Sumter County’s only Federal Prison, Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, and only one of two Correctional Complexes in the South East United States, was also home to a conspiracy of five corrupt guards and other civilian workers who, according to reports, were paid to facilitate and bring in contraband into the…
Tampa, Florida Circuit Court Judge Daniel Perry sentenced a man to the maximum 30 years of Florida State Prison and included as a term of his probation, restitution in the amount of approximately $60,000, according to Tampa Tribune’s Kevin Graham. Florida has long been considered one of the most punitive…