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Last week the Florida District Court of Appeals vacated the sentence of a man who was convicted of violating his probation because his driving logs didn’t match his GPS tracking. In Laing v. Florida, the defendant appealed his conviction and sentence for violating probation by allegedly falsifying his driving logs and allegedly lying to his PO about it. He was

Last week, a ruling came down from the California Appellate Court in the case of People v. Morgan which should serve as a cautionary tale and reminder to make sure you know the rules of the jurisdiction BEFORE moving there! The defendant in that case was a registered citizen in Florida who moved to California. In Florida, sexual offenders are

A high school prank nearly landed an Arizona teenager in deep trouble recently. On a teammate’s dare, the 19-year-old football player exposed himself when the team photo was shot for the yearbook. No one, other than those in on the prank, was aware of what happened until the yearbook was published and circulated to students. That’s when law enforcement swooped

“…the decision underscores a broader trend in these cases: courts across the country, faced with unfamiliar technology and unsympathetic defendants, are issuing decisions that threaten everyone’s rights.” That’s a quote from Mark Rumold of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a California-based digital rights group, in response to a recent federal decision that the FBI did not need a warrant to surreptitiously

Anyone who has any familiarity with the prison system knows what a scam private, for-profit prisons are. They are a human rights tragedy, where the guards are often worse criminals than the inmates. Where a blatant conflict of interest exists; rehabilitation is bad for the prison/company’s bottom line. In this summer’s issue of Mother Jones, a reporter intentionally gets a

A criminal defendant charged with “traveling to meet a minor” and “solicitation of a minor” will have one of his charges vacated according to a ruling by the Florida Supreme Court in Snow v. State. According to a previously decided Supreme Court Case, State v. Shelly, 176 So. 3d 914 (Fla. 2015), double jeopardy applies when someone is convicted of