Saint Lucie Child Pornography Lawyer Jonathan Jay Kirschner On March 31, 2020  felony criminal charges pending against a wrongfully accused client were unconditionally ‘dropped’ by State prosecutors. The prosecution resulted from an on-line investigation initiated by the Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) on the ‘BitTorrent’ Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing network, attempting to...Read More

A law enforcement officer’s empathy for a turtle injured by a passing car cannot justify an unlawful search and criminal prosecution……. It’s simple.   Anger resulting from empathy for an injured animal does not give the police the right to search your car and arrest you. Most of us like turtles.   They’re goofy, obstinate, relentless, single-minded,...Read More

Q: What’s worse than a human being who willfully tortures a dog??????? A:  —— An innocent man, wrongfully arrested, jailed and ACCUSED of  torturing an animal…..when he did nothing, nothing, NOTHING wrong. Charges were finally dropped against D.A. a few weeks ago.  But not before he’d been wrongfully arrested, held in jail, had his bond...Read More

Florida is a large State, oriented primarily north and south. There are but three practical ways to drive from anywhere in the country to South Florida, and from South Florida to just about anyplace else. Two out of three of those roadways, the Turnpike and I-95, will take you through both MARTIN and ST. LUCIE...Read More

As the jury entered the courtroom after completing their deliberations in the afternoon of Friday, January 8, 2016, two of the jurors looked at the Defendant and, oh so briefly, smiled. That is when J.M.F., the Defendant in State of Florida vs. J.M.F., St. Lucie County Florida case number 56-200015-MM-2984, began, (for the first time...Read More

In State of Florida vs. C.P., (56-2014- MM-4100- A) the government, in its ‘infinite wisdom’ chose to charge C.P. with Battery, a crime punishable by up to one (1) year in the county jail, one (1) year of probation, and up to a $1,000.00 fine—or some mixture of those three sanctions. The Government elected to...Read More

Man’s best friend.  And one of man’s best ‘tools’.   The ultra sensitive olfactory abilities of dogs are legendary.  But as this example will show, they are not “limitless”. In State v. J.R.J., Indian River County Case No.: 31-2014-CF-765-A, a young citizen was returning from a pizza restaurant late one night, with a fresh, redolent pie...Read More

In State of Florida vs. C.S., (case number 2014 MM 2304), the Defendant initially believed that her life had been ruined by an arrest in St. Lucie County, Florida for possessing cannabis. It was a pleasant enough day in South Florida (for July, that is), when C.S. was traveling northbound on I-95 for a weekend...Read More

Last week charge of Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon (State of Florida v. K.P.P –St. Lucie County case no:  14 CF 431), carrying a maximum 5 year prison sentence, was DROPPED.   Defendant was charged with threatening persons by driving her car at several persons.    Investigation revealed witness inconsistencies that caused State to abandon...Read More