WINNING!!!! IN THE LONG HAUL, IT’S ALL ABOUT WINNING !! (OR, ‘THE OPERA AIN’T OVER TILL THE FAT LADY SINGS’) There are many ways to win in the Justice System. Getting a case dismissed even before it is formally filed upon is one way to win. Getting it dismissed after it has been formally charged...Read More

Jonathan Jay Kirschner of Kirschner & Garland, P.A., Fort Pierce, for petitioner. Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; and Georgina Jimenez-Orosa and Carol Cobourn Asbury, Assistant Attorneys General, West Palm Beach, for respondent. WELLS, Judge. We have for review Gibbs v. State, 676 So.2d 1001 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996), in which the district court certified the...Read More

30 So.3d 725 (2010) R.N., a minor, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent. No. 4D10-1194.District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.April 7, 2010.Jonathan Jay Kirschner of Jonathan Jay Kirschner, Esq. & Associates, LLC, Fort Pierce, for petitioner. Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Katherine Y. Mclntire, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for respondent....Read More

JUAN JOSE FARIAS, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. No. 4D08-406. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District. March 31, 2010. Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, St. Lucie County, Gary L. Sweet, Judge, L.T. Case No. 562004CF3201A. Jonathan Jay Kirschner, of Jonathan Jay Kirschner, Esq. & Associates, LLC, Fort...Read More

In State v. J.F., St. Lucie County case number 56 2004 CF 320/  DCA # 4D08-406,  the Defendant was charged with one (1) count of Lewd and Lascivious Molestation of a ten (10) year old child.   The charge carries with it a maximum prison sentence of thirty (30) years in the prison. J.F. was a...Read More