Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant Possessing A Firearm And Ammunition As A Convicted Felon charged with Possessing A Firearm And Ammunition As A Convicted Felon
Sarasota Man Sentenced To Nine Years For Possessing A Firearm And Ammunition As A Convicted Fel... More...    $0 (11-04-2024 - FL)

Fort Lauderdale, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interference with commence by threats or violence and conspiracy to distribute controlled substance (cocaine) in violation of 18 U.S. 1951 and 21 U.S.C. 846.... More...    $0 (09-22-2023 - FL)

Fort Myers, FL civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a Family Medical Leave Act violation theory.

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides certain employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year. It also requires that their group health benefits be maintained during the leave.

FMLA is designed to help employees balance their... More...    $0 (07-21-2023 - FL)

Tampa, Florida criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged for making a racially-motivated attack against a Black man who was traveling down a public roadway with his family in Seminole, Florida.

Jordan Patrick Leahy, age 29, was convicted of willfully intimidating and interfering with J.T., and attempting to injure, intimidate and interfere with J.T. through the use of a dangerous... More...    $0 (11-07-2022 - FL)

Miami, Florida criminal law lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiring to commit a Hobbs Act robbery and conspiring to traffic 100 kilograms or more of marijuana.

Christopher Michael Frantantoni admitted that in June 2019, he and five members of the drug trafficking organization that he ran flew from South Florida to San Francisco, California, to commit a home invasion robbery ... More...    $0 (07-29-2022 - FL)

Jackson, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with interfence with commerce by threat or violence by extortion.

Marion Michael O'Steen was accused of conspiring to extort money from a Lake City game room operator in 2019.

Andy Tong paid Defendant $60,000 to "fix" two cases pending against him.

The case was prosecuted by Kelly Karase.

18:... More...    $0 (06-15-2022 - FL)

West Palm Beach, Florida civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued defendants under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming that their constitutional rights were violated by Defendants.


Plaintiffs claim that Defendants violated their right to due process of law by freezing their assets in Maryland, obtaining writs of garnishment based on Maryland law without providing notice and an oppor... More...    $0 (05-20-2022 - FL)

Orlando, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruct the IRS.

Aaron Aqueron, of Clermont, engaged in a nationwide tax fraud scheme and recruited clients to the fraud scheme by convincing them that their mortgages and other debts entitled them to tax refunds. Aqueron collected tax and financial information from the... More...    $0 (04-12-2022 - FL)

Mimai, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with with carjacking resulting in death and one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.

In May 2017, Aponte Figueroa, age 25, of Miami, along with two co-conspirators, carjacked, at gunpoint, an Uber driver who was sleeping in his minivan. The evidence at trial showed that, after driving th... More...    $0 (03-25-2022 - FL)

Pensacola, Florida criminal defense attorney represented defendant charged with interfering with flight crew and assault by striking and wounding in special aircraft jurisdiction.

Kameron C. Stone, 29, from Fairfax, Virginia on April 16, 2021, boarded a flight departing from Dulles International Airport in Virginia bound for Pensacola International Airport. During the flight, passengers n... More...    $0 (02-11-2022 - FL)

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida armed robbery charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendants, Jamal Lamar Head and Keon Travy Glanton, who were charged with participating in a pair of robberies that culminated in a carjacking and the murder of a Miami plumber.

According to the Factual Proffers signed by Jamal Lamar Head and Keon Travy Glanton, on July 11, 2018, Head and Glanton worked tog... More...    $0 (04-07-2021 - FL)

Miami, FL - Miami-Based Violent Criminal Enterprise Members and Associates Convicted at Trial

Charges of Conviction Included Racketeering, Drug Trafficking, Armed Robberies, and Firearms Used in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking and Violent Crimes


Benjamin G. Greenberg, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Special Agent in Charge Ari C. Shapira for the ... More...    $0 (09-17-2018 - FL)

Cheryl Searcy (“Plaintiff”) sued the defendants, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Philip Morris Inc. (together, “Defendants”) for unintentional and intentional torts arising from the death of her mother, Carol Lasard, alleging that Lasard’s illnesses were caused by her addiction to cigarettes manufactured by Defendants. The jury found for Plaintiff on both the unintentional and intentional tort c... More...    $0 (09-12-2018 - FL)

The City of Pensacola, Florida appeals a district court decision ordering it to remove a 34-foot Latin cross from a public park on the ground that the City’s maintenance of the cross violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. Having concluded that we are bound by existing Circuit precedent, we find ourselves constrained to affirm.
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The pertinent facts are undisputed. In 1941, th... More...    $0 (09-12-2018 - FL)

Jack Mulvey (“Decedent”) died testate with two surviving children and a spouse. His first wife and one son, Kevin Mulvey, predeceased him. The
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Decedent’s daughter, Sheila Stephens (“Daughter”), sued the Decedent’s second wife, Thelma Mulvey (“Widow”). The Daughter claimed the Widow exerted undue influence on the Decedent and interfered with her expected inheritance. To provid... More...    $0 (06-28-2018 - FL)

In 2014, Stone entered into a plea agreement to the charge of interference
with custody, a third degree, non-forcible felony. She scored 22 sentencing points.
The trial court found her guilty, withheld adjudication and placed her on three
years of reporting probation with special conditions. The State subsequently filed
several affidavits alleging Stone violated the terms of... More...    $0 (06-21-2018 - FL)

Prosecutors are “servant[s] of the law” and should “prosecute with earnestness and vigor.” Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78, 88 (1935). But though the prosecutor “may strike hard blows, he is not at liberty to strike foul ones.” Id.
More than fifty years ago, Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 87 (1963), established that a prosecutor’s suppression of material evidence favorable to the accused... More...    $0 (05-31-2018 - FL)

In this appeal of an inverse condemnation action, Defendant-Appellant the City of St. Pete Beach (“the City”) challenges a jury verdict in favor of Plaintiffs Katherine A. Chmielewski and Paul Chmielewski, as personal representative of the estate of Chester Chmielewski (“the Chmielewskis”). The underlying dispute involves a beachfront parcel, owned by the Chmielewskis, which experienced significan... More...    $0 (05-21-2018 - FL)

The 18-year-old victim was walking home around 10:30 pm from her job at
Aventura Mall when the Appellant drove up beside her and repeatedly asked her to
get in the car. Because it was raining heavily, she got in. The Appellant did not go
in the direction of her house, but drove in another direction and then offered her
money to have sex with him. When she refused and tried t... More...    $0 (04-09-2018 - FL)

Dr. Edward Tobinick appeals the District Court’s award of attorney’s fees to Dr. Steven Novella. Dr. Tobinick argues both that the District Court’s decision to award attorney’s fees and the amount of fees it awarded were made in error. This case presents an issue of first impression for our circuit. That is, whether the “exceptional case” standard for awarding attorney’s fees in Patent Act cases, ... More...    $0 (03-12-2018 - FL)

In this common-law trademark case, Thomas McClary appeals from an order granting judgment as a matter of law to Commodores Entertainment Corporation (CEC) and converting a preliminary injunction into a permanent one against McClary and his corporation, Fifth Avenue Entertainment, LLC. The dispute concerned ownership of the mark “The Commodores,” the name of a famous Grammy Award–winning rhythm and... More...    $0 (01-09-2018 - FL)