West Palm Beach, Florida criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with arson.

On June 11, 2014, Tony Garcia’s mortgage lender sent him
notice that, in a month, his home would be sold at foreclosure.

Seventeen days later, Garcia’s neighbor saw the house go up in
flames and called 911. The State charged Garcia with arson for
setting fire to the place. Garcia’... More...    $0 (08-25-2022 - FL)

Ocala, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with first-degree murder.

Nicholas James Trench was charged with murder to killing his grandmother, age 77, and decapitating her.

1 782.04.2 MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE 05/23/2022 Court:
2 872.06 ABUSE DEAD HUMAN BODY 05/23/2022 Court:
3 806.01.1 ARSON OF A DWELLING OR BUILDING PEOPLE PRESENT 05/23/2022 ... More...    $0 (05-31-2022 - FL)

Arcadia, FL: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with three counts of first-degree capital murder.

Marian Williams, age 49, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, arson and burglary of an occupied dwelling which result in the death of three children.

Williams, who did not take the stand, killed 8-year-o... More...    $0 (10-15-2021 - FL)

Pensacola, Florida multiple drug charges, firearms offenses, and a conspiracy to commit an arson related offense criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Tony M. Streeter, ate 47, of Fort Walton Beach, indicted on multiple drug charges, firearms offenses, and a conspiracy to commit an arson related offense.

In August 2019, law enforcement conducted an undercover methamphetamine pu... More...    $0 (07-11-2021 - FL)

Pensacola, Florida drug possession charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Tony M. Streeter, who was charged with of Fort Walton Beach, on multiple drug charges, firearms offenses, and a conspiracy to commit arson related offense.

In August 2019, following an undercover methamphetamine purchase from Streeter, law enforcement executed a search warrant at his residence in For... More...    $0 (03-10-2021 - FL)

Pensacola, FL - The United States of America charged Tony M. Streeter and Betty J. Jackson, a/k/a Betty Joe Streeter with possession with intent to distribute meth.

Tony M. Streeter, 46, and Betty J. Jackson (a/k/a Betty Joe Streeter), 50, both of
Fort Walton Beach were indicted on charged that they Streeter distributed, and possessed with intent to
distribute, methamphetamine on ... More...    $0 (06-01-2020 - FL)

Pensacola, FL - The State of Florida charged Ashley Britt McArthur, age 41, with racketeering and organized fraud for embezzling thousands of dollar from jukeboxes at the Azalea Cocktail Lounge and Seville Quarter.

1 PUBLIC ORDER CRI... More...    $0 (01-25-2019 - FL)

Miami, FL - Coral Springs Man Sentenced to Prison for Arson

A Coral Springs man was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay over $3 million in restitution for carrying out a residential arson.

Benjamin G. Greenberg, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Ari C. Shapira, Special Agent in Charge, United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms ... More...    $0 (08-21-2018 - FL)

Bill and Connie Couch lived in Lake Butler. Their property comprised a mobile home, several outbuildings, and a camper trailer Mr. Couch called his “man cave.” The Couches’ daughter,
Chloe, and Mrs. Couch’s son from a previous relationship lived with them on the property. In January 2012, Ronald Griffis knocked on the Couches’ front door, offering to pave their driveway. After some negotiati... More...    $0 (08-05-2018 - FL)

The defendant was convicted on a charge of arson of a dwelling and was placed
on community control. The community control order contained a number of conditions,
including that the defendant could not change her residence without obtaining the consent
of her supervising officer (condition 3) and that she must comply with all instructions given
to her by her supervising officer ... More...    $0 (07-21-2018 - FL)

In this appeal from his conviction and sentence for second degree murder, appellant, Hiram Gonzalez Morales, contends that the court erred in denying his “Stand Your Ground” defense, as well as erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal at his trial. After reviewing the evidence, we conclude that the court did not err in either respect. We therefore affirm the judgment and sentence. <... More...    $0 (06-28-2018 - FL)

On February 16, 2016, Michael St. Hubert pled guilty to two counts of using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during, in relation to, and in furtherance Case: 16-10874 Date Filed: 02/28/2018 Page: 1 of 39
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of a crime of violence, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). The district court sentenced St. Hubert to 84 months’ imprisonment for the first § 924(c) conviction and 300 consecutive m... More...    $0 (02-28-2018 - FL)

Edwin Deshazior appeals his 180 month sentence following his conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He argues that he should not have received a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18 U.S.C. §§ 924(e)(1) and 924(e)(2)(B), because he did not have three prior convictions for violent felonies under the act and because his prior felon... More...    $0 (02-21-2018 - FL)

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Nikolas Cruz Charged With 17 Counts of Capital Murder

Court Docket:

Broward County Case Number: 18001958CF10A
State Reporting Number: 062018CF001958A88810
Court Type: Capital Homicide
Case Type: Capital Homicide - Report Purposes
Filing Date: 02/15/2018
Case Status: Pending
Court Location: Central Courthouse
Judge ID / Name: Scher... More...    $0 (02-17-2018 - FL)

Defendant Hypico Beaulieu appeals his six criminal convictions and his sentence, all related to drug trafficking and the illegal possession of firearms. Co-defendant Jean Oscar appeals his two convictions for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm on two different dates. Their appeals present five issues, implicating the lengthy investigation that led to their arrests and their joint c... More...    $0 (12-22-2017 - FL)

Randy W. Tundidor was convicted of first-degree murder of Joseph
Morrissey (Count I), two counts of attempted first-degree murder and two counts
of attempted felony murder of Linda Morrissey and Patrick Morrissey (Counts II–
V), two counts of armed kidnapping of Joseph Morrissey and Linda Morrissey
(Counts VI–VII), armed burglary (Count VIII), armed robbery of Joseph Morrissey <... More...    $0 (05-01-2017 - FL)

Fort Pierce, FL - Mosque Fire Suspect Gets 30 Years

The State of Florida charged Joseph Schreiber, age 32, with arson for setting fire to the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce on September 11, 2016.

Defendant, who is Jewish, had a history of asserting that Islam is bad.... More...    $0 (02-07-2017 - FL)

We previously set forth the relevant facts in Kaczmar v. State, 104 So. 3d
990, 995-98 (Fla. 2012). Kaczmar was convicted for first-degree murder,
attempted sexual battery, and arson. During Kaczmar’s first penalty phase, the
parties stipulated that Kaczmar had been previously convicted of a robbery. Id. at
997. The State presented a victim impact statement from Ruiz’s brot... More...    $0 (02-03-2017 - FL)

In 1981, Paul Beasley Johnson was convicted of, among other crimes, three
counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of William Evans, Daryl Ray Beasley,
Jr., and T.A. Burnham. Johnson v. State, 438 So. 2d 774, 775-76 (Fla. 1983). We
affirmed Johnson’s convictions and death sentences on direct appeal. Id. at 780.
After the Governor signed a death warrant for Johnson, we gr... More...    $0 (12-03-2016 - FL)

STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
The Events at Headley Insurance
The evidence introduced at Davis’s trial revealed the following. Around
3 p.m. on December 13, 2007, Davis entered the Lake Wales location of the
Headley Insurance Agency (Headley) with the intent to commit robbery. Davis
was armed with a loaded .357 magnum revolver and equipped with duct tape, a <... More...    $0 (11-21-2016 - FL)

Ocala, FL - Jury Convicts Man of Killing Girlfriend's One Year Old Child

The State of Florida charged Kendall Corey Dustin Blyden, age 29, with first-degree felony murder for the 2014 death of 1-year-old Jayden Green, who died from blunt force head trauma.

Defendant claimed that the child fell out of his playpen.

Section 782.04 of the Florida statutes provides:

... More...    $0 (09-10-2016 - FL)

Patterson’s jury convicted him of multiple crimes stemming from the alleged
arsons of his truck and residence. As the First District explained,
[t]he arsons for which Patterson was tried and convicted completely destroyed his house and truck (which was parked in the garage at the time). It was alleged that Patterson used the truck to start one of the two arson fires in the house. [Not... More...    $0 (08-28-2016 - FL)

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Jury Finds Woman Guilty of Killing Her Cop Boyfriend

The State of Florida charged Tiniko Thompson, age 48, with second-degree murder for killing her boyfriend City of Miami Police Office killing Carl Patrick.

Defendant asserted self-defense.

The State alleged that Defendant Thompson told Patrick that she was pregnant, ran up his credit card charges,... More...    $0 (08-27-2016 - FL)

The central issue in this case is whether the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury on manslaughter as a category one lesser included offense of second-degree felony murder. We hold that, at the time of trial, the law in this district supported the trial judge’s decision not to give the instruction. Appellant Christopher Dean was found guilty of burglary and seconddegree felony murde... More...    $0 (05-18-2016 - FL)

Joshua Jackson Grimes stands convicted of second-degree arson for a fire a
third party set accidentally in a car Mr. Grimes took after its owner denied him
permission to drive it again. On appeal, he does not challenge his convictions for
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burglary, petit theft, and grand theft of the car. His argument on appeal (echoing
his motion for judgment of acquittal) that he “d... More...    $0 (02-23-2016 - FL)

Antone T. Adams was sentenced to 180 months in prison, the mandatory
minimum sentence required by the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), 18
U.S.C. § 924(e)(1), after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm as a convicted
felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). The district court sentenced Adams
under the ACCA after finding that he had three prior convictions, two of w... More...    $0 (01-15-2016 - FL)

Tai Pham was convicted in 2008 in Seminole County for the first-degree
murder of his estranged wife Phi Pham, the attempted first-degree murder of her
boyfriend Christopher Higgins, the armed kidnapping of his stepdaughter Lana
Pham, and armed burglary. Pham v. State, 70 So. 3d 485 (Fla. 2011). This Court
summarized the facts as follows: Pham entered Phi’s apartment where her... More...    $0 (11-11-2015 - FL)

Gainesville, FL - Jamie Vincent Ward, 38, of Bronson, Florida, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for two charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

According to documents filed in the case, Ward was previously convicted in Georgia for the felony offenses of Escape, Theft by Taking, First Degree Arson, and Possession of Methamphetamine. Ward was a fugitive from Georgia, h... More...    $0 (10-27-2015 - FL)