Florida Excessive Force Law
<H2> <center> State of Florida v. Ronny Neal </h2> </center>
Sanford, Florida, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with 79 counts of official misconduct and one count of organized fraud after a year-long investigation into unpaid vendor accounts revealed fake officer off-duty jobs. Ronny Neal, the department's off-duty detail coordinator and a 22-year veteran of the force, had been making up off-duty details for nearly a year and ch... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - FL)<H2> <center> United States of America v. Bienvenido Leo Rodriguez, et al. </h2> </center>
Miami, Florida, criminal defense lawyers represent the Defendants charged with conspiring to traffic large quantities of cocaine in and around Miami-Dade County and elsewhere in the Southern District of Florida. The eight-count superseding indictment charges the following defendants—each a resident of Miami unless otherwise indicated—with drug trafficking conspiracy and related offenses: B... More...
$ (12-19-2025 - FL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Johnathan Gaines </h2> </center>
Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with bank rubbery by force or violence.<br> <br> Gaines is serving a 711-month sentence for committing three armed robberies in 2000, brandishing a firearm during the<br> commission of one of those robberies, and discharging a firearm during another. At the time of his conviction, he received a 25-year mandatory minimum sente... More...
$0 (11-20-2025 - FL)<h2> <center> Stacy Hovan v. Metroploitan Life Insurance Company </h2> </center>
Miami, Florida, employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a an ERISA law theory.<br> <br> Stacy Hovan sued Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“MetLifeâ€) under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act<br> of 1974 (“ERISAâ€), challenging MetLife’s termination of her long- term disability benefit.<br> <br> Hovan was employed as a commercial litiga... More...
$0 (11-20-2025 - FL)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. SGO Corporation Limited </h1></center></h1>
Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Philippine Bribery and Money Laundering.<br> <br> <br> A federal grand jury in Miami returned a superseding indictment today charging a multinational company that provides voting machine and election services for participating in a scheme to pay and launder more than $1 million in bribes to a Philippine government offic... More...
$0 (10-16-2025 - FL)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Harun Abdul-Hamid Yener </h1></center></h1>
Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempting to Bomb the New York Stock Exchange<br> <br> A Coral Springs man was arraigned on a superseding indictment related to a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange.<br> <br> Harun Abdul-Hamid Yener, 30, is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempting to use an explosive device to damage... More...
$0 (09-24-2025 - FL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Darryl Odely, Jr. </h2> </center>
Fort Lauderdale, Florida Criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking of a minor by force or coercion in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591. <br> <br> In 2021, the minor victim, D.M.C., ran away from home and<br> was reported missing by her family. She was recruited into prosti-<br> tution first by a woman named Keke, then by another woman<br> named Skittles.<br> <b... More...
$0 (08-29-2025 - FL)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Corderrius Terrelle McShane </h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Pensacola, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with trafficking fentanyl </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> POSSESSING AND DISTRIBUTING FENTANYL IN PENSACOLA</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <center><h2><br> <br> Corderrius Terrelle... More...
$0 (08-29-2025 - FL)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Shantel Marie Powell </h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center>Pensacola, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Drug And Firearm charge</font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> HUSBAND AND WIFE CONVICTED OF FEDERAL CHARGES RELATING TO DRUG AND FIREARM INVESTIGATION</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <br> Sh... More...
$0 (08-20-2025 - FL)<h2> <center> State of Florida v. Eric Laurice Smith </h2> </center>
Jacksonville, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with burglary and battery.<br> <br> On December 10, 2020, Smith was charged with one count of armed burglary with assault or battery based on a violent disagreement between Smith, the victim, and Smith's sister, which occurred inside the victim's apartment. At trial, two versions of the facts were presented to the jury... More...
$0 (08-08-2025 - FL)<h2> <center> Aileen Mullin v. Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs </h2> </center>
Tampa, Florida employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who disability discrimination, failure to accommodate, unlawful disclosure, and retaliation (and/or a retaliatory hostile work environment theories.<br> <br> In July 2010, Ms. Mullin began to experience respiratory is-<br> sues at work. Believing that the building she worked in was causing<br> the respiratory problems, she spoke with s... More...
$0 (08-08-2025 - FL)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Island Tri Truong </h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Orlando, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with concealment money laundering </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> </b><br> Wife Of Central Florida Methamphetamine Dealer Pleads Guilty To Laundering Hundreds Of Thousands In Drug Proceeds</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> <H/font/color="red"></b></cente... More...
$0 (08-04-2025 - FL)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Marlon Alexis Aguilar-Reyes </h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to import cocaine into the United States </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><b> <br> </b>International Trafficker Pleads Guilty To Multi-Million Dollar Drug Conspiracy That Smuggled Hundreds Of Kilograms Of Cocaine And Murdered A Rival</h2></center></... More...
$0 (07-25-2025 - FL)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Andrew Allen Blakney </h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Sexual Relationship With Child And Possession Of Child Sexual Abuse Images </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Fugitive Washington State Sex Offender Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Sexual Relationship With Child And Possession Of Child... More...
$0 (07-15-2025 - FL)<h2> <center> Joseph Heid v. Mark Rutkoski and Forrest Best </h2> </center>
Orlando, Florida personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 use of unreasonable force in violation of the Fourth Amendment theory.<br> <br> On the evening of April 26, 2016, Heid, his wife, and their<br> roommate were drinking alcohol at their home. Heid’s daughter<br> and stepson were also at the home. Around 9:00 PM, Heid and his<br> ... More...
$0 (07-11-2025 - FL)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. James Loubeau </h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Sexual Assault </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Former Air Force Member Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Sexual Assault at Air Base in England</h2></center></b></b></center></><br> </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br>... More...
$0 (07-03-2025 - FL)<h2> <center> State of Florida v. Corey Stephen Smith </h2> </center>
Bartow, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated battery with a firearm causing great bodily harm. <br> <br> Smith asserted that the trial court erred when it denied Smith's requested jury instruction on self-defense and when it denied Smith's attempt to offer evidence of a threat that was made against him prior to his use of force against the alleged victi... More...
$0 (06-30-2025 - FL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Andrew Ewing </h2> </center>
Tallahassee, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with one count t of knowing<br> possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B), (b)(2).<br> <br> A grand jury charged Andrew Ewing with a single count of knowing possession of child pornography that involved a prepubescent minor and a minor who had not attained 12 years of age in violation... More...
$0 (06-30-2025 - FL)<h2> <center> Alissa Gilman v. American Airlines, Inc. </h2> </center>
West Palm Beach, Florida civil rights lawyers represented the parties in a Civil Rights Violation dispute.<br> <br> Civil rights violations occur when individuals are unfairly treated or denied their fundamental rights due to protected characteristics or when their constitutional rights are infringed upon by government actors or private individuals. These violations can involve discrimination, pol... More...
$0 (05-08-2025 - FL)<h2> <center> United States of America v. Lawrence S. Duran </h2> </center>
Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant charged with Medicare fraud.<br> <br> Miami resident Lawrence Duran, the owner of a mental health care company, American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), was sentenced today to 50 years in prison for orchestrating a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services (HH... More...
$0 (09-16-2011 - FL)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Wilmer Sanchez Aquino </h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, FL criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and attempting to possess cocaine with the intent to distribute it. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Loxahatchee Man Convicted At Trial Of Conspiring To Traffic Cocaine</h2></center></b></b> <... More...
$0 (05-27-2025 - FL)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Dennis Jackson a/k/a “Miami†</h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, FL criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to distribute fentanyl resulting in death </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Clearwater Man Sentenced To 20 Years’ Imprisonment For Role In Fatal Fentanyl Overdose</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> U.S. District Judg... More...
$0 (05-27-2025 - FL)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Efrain Betancourt, Jr. </h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Ponzi scheme </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Colombian National Pleads Guilty to $66 Million Ponzi Scheme, Funded Chateau Wedding and Lavish Vacations with Investments</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Efrain Betancourt, ... More...
$0 (05-23-2025 - FL)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Stephen Christopher Young </h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Gainesville, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receipt/attempted receipt of child pornography </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Gainesville man sentenced to more than 10 years for child pornography charges</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Stephen Christopher Youn... More...
$0 (05-12-2025 - FL)<center><h1><center> United States of America v. Stephen Christopher Young </h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Gainesville, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with receipt/attempted receipt of child pornography </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Gainesville man sentenced to more than 10 years for child pornography charges</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Stephen Christopher Young,... More...
$0 (05-10-2025 - FL)<center><h1><center> Pierre Marquis Fowler a/k/a “Durk†United States of America v. \Pierre Marquis Fowler a/k/a “Durk†</h1></center></h1>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, FL criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiring to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, and 500 grams or more of cocaine; possessing with the intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, and 500 grams or more of cocaine; possessing a machin... More...
$0 (04-11-2025 - FL)</center><h1><center> United States of America v. Star Stewart </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, FL criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Bradenton Convicted Felon Sentenced To More Than Eight Years In Federal Prison </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> U.S. District JuSteven D. Merryda... More...
$0 (02-23-2025 - FL)<h1><center> United States of America v. Carlos Solorio </h1></center>
font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, FL criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Trafficking Methamphetamine </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Pasco County Man Sentenced To 9 Years In Federal Prison For Trafficking Methamphetamine</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sen... More...
$0 (02-06-2025 - FL)<h1><center> United States of America v. Wesley Berton Paul </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, FL criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with importing cocaine into the United States from Panama </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Atlanta Man Sentenced To Over 5 Years For Smuggling Cocaine Into A Florida Port Via Container Ship</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> U.S. Distr... More...
$0 (02-06-2025 - FL)<h1><center> United States of America v. Wesley Berton Paul </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, FL criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with importing cocaine into the United States from Panama </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> here </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> U.S. District Judge Kathryn K. Mizelle has sentenced Wesley Berton Paul (48, Georgia) to 5 years and 1... More...
$0 (02-06-2025 - FL)<h1><center> United States of America v. Shannima Yuantrell Session aka Shalamar </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sex trafficking nearly a dozen women and girls </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Florida man sentenced to life in prison for sex trafficking nearly a dozen women and girls</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> <br> Shannima Yuant... More...
$0 (01-22-2025 - FL)<h1><center> United States of America v. Jeffrey MacEachron </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Boston, Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with scheme to defraud insurance providers for physical therapy services that were not provided to patients. </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Florida Man Sentenced for Health Care Fraud Violations</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b>... More...
$0 (12-20-2024 - FL)<h1><center> United States of America v. James Ray Nichols </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material to South Florida </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Kentucky Man Sentenced for Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material to South Florida</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><center><h2><font><br> <... More...
$0 (12-18-2024 - FL)<h1><center> United States of America v. Vernell Syrethia Lawson; Gabrielle Nicole Bess-Mills, </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Former Miami-Dade Correctional Officer Indicted for Service in a Continuing Criminal Enterprise</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> <br> Vernell Syrethia Lawson, 33, a former Miami-Dade Corre... More...
$0 (12-20-2024 - FL)<h1><center> United States of America v. Yaquasia Delcarmen </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Jacksonville, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Supervising Armed Drug Trafficking Operation And Laundering More Than $1 Million </font/color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Jacksonville Woman Sentenced To 8 Years In Federal Prison For Supervising Armed Drug Trafficking Operation And Laundering ... More...
$0 (12-17-2024 - FL)<h2> <center> Veronica Baxter, et al. v. Jafet Santiago-Miranda, et al. </h2> <center>
<h2><br> Orlando, Florida civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued claiming the use of excessive force by the Defendant.<br> </h2><br> <br> Plaintiffs Veronica Baxter and Al-Quan Pierce sued as personal representatives of the estates of the driver, Angelo<br> Crooms, and a passenger, Sincere Pierce, respectively. The plaintiffs’ complaint asserted that Santiago-Miranda used ex... More...
$0 (11-13-2024 - FL)<h1><center> United States of America v. Jonathan Howard Kuykendall a/k/a “Bright Darkness </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Attempting To Engage In Sex Acts With A Minor </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Man Sentenced To More Than 10 Years For Attempting To Engage In Sex Acts With A Minor</h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> Jonathan Howard Kuykenda... More...
$0 (09-20-2024 - FL)<h2> <center> David T. Beans v. Amy S. Beans </h2> </center>
<h2><br> Pensacola, Florida divorce lawyers represented husband and wife in a dissolution case.<br> <h2><br> <br> Married in 1995, David and Amy signed the MSA as part of their divorce proceedings, an agreement the circuit court approved and incorporated into its dissolution decree in August 2018. Under the MSA, the decree obligated David to pay $3,000 a month in permanent periodic alimony and $1,... More...
$0 (09-18-2024 - FL)<h1><center> United States of America v. Xavier Latrell Smith; Jayla Denice Welch </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Cross Country Sex-Trafficking </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Federal Judge Sentences Cross Country Sex-Traffickers to 14 and 30 Years in Prison </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> In March, Smith and Welch, who are both fro... More...
$0 (09-09-2024 - FL)<h1><center> United States of America v. William Power McCaughan, Jr. </h1></center>
<font color="red"><b><h2><center> Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Producing Child Pornography </font </color="red"></b></center></i></i><b><center></i><br> <b> </b> Former Prosecutor Sentenced to Over 15 Years in Prison for Producing Child Pornography </h2></center></b></b> </h2></center></b><br> <br> William McCaughan, Jr.’s guilty... More...
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