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JUDGE THROWS OUT CRIMINAL MISCHIEF CHARGE In State of Florida vs. TB-S, 94-2663-MM, the nineteen (19) year old Defendant was charged with Criminal Mischief, a second degree misdemeanor under Florida law. Some would consider it a ‘minor’ crime, as the statutory maximimum penalty provided is “only” sixty (60) days in...

/23 Jan 2013

/Sexual Battery, Successes and Wins

29 Minute NOT GUILTY verdict Frees Innocent Man, Wrongfully Accused, facing Life in Prison

29 Minute NOT GUILTY verdict Frees Innocent Man, Wrongfully Accused, facing Life in Prison. After a week long jury trial, on April 1, 2010, the jury in State of Florida vs. A.M., St. Lucie County Case # 56-3008- 4630, returned its NOT GUILTY verdict in an incredible 29 minutes. A.M....

/23 Jan 2013

/Felonies, Successes and Wins

19 year old Defendant Facing LIFE IMPRISONMENT

CZH, 19 years old and a student at Indian River State College, along with his girlfriend, A.K., went for a drive to go shopping in Martin County, Florida on May 19 of 2009. The nightmarish scene that followed, some would argue, could only occur in the 19th Judicial Circuit, where...

/23 Jan 2013

/Driving Under The Influence (DUI), Successes and Wins

2010 DUI Trial—-Defendant Found NOT GUILTY !!!

In State v. G.H., St. Lucie County Case No.: 2009CT4328A, the Defendant was returning home late one evening after having dropped a new friend he’d met at their residence. As G.H. was a student in the Treasure Coast, he was not entirely familiar with the layout of roads, and was...

/23 Jan 2013

/Driving Under The Influence (DUI), Successes and Wins

Fort Pierce DUI Dismissed—Certain Jail Time Averted.

1. In State of Flordia vs. J.B., St. Lucie County Case No.: 56-2009-CT-1925A, J.B. was charged with DUI. If convicted, given J.B.’s driving history, he would without doubt have been sentenced to a substantial amount of time in jail. The facts: On May 24, 2009, J.B. was southbound on U.S....

/23 Jan 2013

/Appeals, Drugs and Alcohol, Miscellaneous Cases, Successes and Wins

Trafficking Posession Of Cocaine And Simple Posession Conviction Appeal

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...