JURIST
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reinstated a Florida man’s conviction on Thursday, following a challenge that the police department violated the man’s Miranda rights. Jimmie Bowen was arrested for his alleged involvement in gang related violence.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Six states in the US allow for trials before six or eight-person juries in felony cases: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts and Utah. This deviation from the standard 12-person jury was permitted by the 1970 US Supreme Court ruling in Williams v. Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh dissented to the court’s denial.
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JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 29, 2024
There is an interesting criminal case out of Florida in which FedEx driver Latavion Lewis was charged with grand theft, illegal dumping, and an organized scheme to defraud. FedEx received reports of packages strewn along roads and in the woods around Bonifay, Florida. ” Roughly44 packages were recovered as of December 21.
LegalTalkNetwork
JULY 3, 2019
This year was the 69th anniversary of The Florida Bar’s Annual Convention which was held in Boca Raton, Florida at the beautiful Boca Raton Resort and Club. Attendees had a cornucopia of special events and sessions to choose from, including 83 credits worth of CLE programming and a luncheon featuring Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 28, 2023
There was a bizarre arrest in Palm Coast, Florida, where Shawn Madden, 40, proved that he was no threat by stripping naked and asking “where’s my weapon?” ” There is ample evidence to support charges of disorderly conduct and exposure in the video below.
The Crime Report
JULY 28, 2022
Conversely, Jacksonville (Duval County, Florida), a relatively conservative jurisdiction, eliminates up to 30 percent after thorough screening. is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida International University. It is supported by the Safety + Justice Challenge at the John D.
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Yet criminal law has historically excluded Black women from voting by regulating when a person convicted of a crime may be eligible to vote, argues Washington and Lee University School of Law professor Carla Laroche. Black women are leading the fight to secure and safeguard voting rights in the U.S. Plenty of U.S.
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