Florida has in recent years reasserted homeowners’ rights to self-defense while home in the so-called “castle doctrine.” The state also affirms your right to use (or threaten to use) force to defend your property, providing more protections than many other states in this regard. However, the reality of how property defense cases are handled is…
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2017 House Bill 949 entitled, “Driving Under the Influence,” was introduced by Florida State Representative Cord Byrd (R –Neptune Beach) and it passed the House Committee on March 22, 2017. The 2017 House Bill 949 encourages first-time offenders, as a condition of probation, to voluntarily place an ignition interlock device (IID) on his or her…
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The 2005 Florida Stand Your Ground (SYG) law drastically changed the way Florida law handled self-defense. Self-defense is an affirmative defense that allows one to defend his or herself or another person from bodily harm. The most significant change to the self-defense law was the dramatic expansion of the “no duty to retreat” rule of…
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The video above features the parents of Rebecca Hyman, a young girl who suffers from intractable epilepsy. Rebecca’s mother, Danielle, says her daughter suffers as many as 200 seizures a day and you can see the tears in the eyes of her father, Seth, as he says, “We feel her saying to us, ‘Mom, Dad,…
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Stealing a pack of batteries from CVS or pocketing a pack of gum from the local Walmart may not seem like a huge travesty, but such criminal acts across America collectively cost retailers upwards of $32 billion dollars in 2014. One may think retail theft only affects the offender, however, this conduct adds to the…
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Although St. Patrick’s Day has religious origins in Ireland, it has evolved into a worldwide rite of spring that is often associated with the consumption of alcohol. March 17 is a national holiday in Ireland and the date is celebrated in many countries across the globe. Many St. Patrick’s Day festivities involve eating Irish food…
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Recently, there has been a huge debate over the constitutionality over DUI checkpoints, specifically whether drivers have to interact with law enforcement at a DUI checkpoint. These heated debates have caused many Hernando County drivers to ask, “Legally, what are my rights at DUI stops and DUI checkpoints?”. DUI Stop v. DUI Checkpoint In order…
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According to the Drug Policy Alliance, a national organization dedicated to drug legislation reformation, 700,993 arrests were made nationally for marijuana law violations. Eighty-eight percent or 619, 809 of those arrests were for possession of marijuana only. Possession of 20 or fewer grams of marijuana in the state of Florida is considered a first degree…
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