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Florida residents may be interested to learn that the Obama administration has now commuted the sentences of more than 1,000 people imprisoned for nonviolent drug offenses and intends to continue doing so until he leaves office. The commutations, which cannot be...
Police took a woman, who serves as the Anclote High School Assistant Principal, into custody on drug-related charges stemming from marijuana-laced cookies. The woman's daughter was also taken into custody for the same charges. According to the report, the incident...
Florida football fans may be interested to learn NFL free agent Greg Hardy has been charged with cocaine possession in Texas. Hardy, who played for the Carolina Panthers and then the Dallas Cowboys, was arrested on Sept. 26 after a traffic stop near Dallas. According...
A 20-year-old Florida woman was found to be in possession of a bag of heroin after her vehicle was pulled over in Sumter County on Oct. 23. The accused woman was a passenger in a car that sheriff's deputies stopped for having a tinted windshield. When a K-9 unit...
A Florida man has filed a lawsuit against the city of Orlando as well as a drug testing company that manufactures roadside drug testing kits that officers use. The man was arrested in December 2015 after he was pulled over for allegedly speeding. The man reports that...
On Oct. 13, a 27-year-old Florida woman was taken into custody for possession of cocaine and driving with a suspended license. The woman was being held at a Key West area jail when a package arrived for her that one deputy found suspicious. According to a...
Fourth Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution are twofold. First, it protects your right to privacy at home. It also protects you from unreasonable and arbitrary governmental intrusions. It provides that the "[t]he right of the people to be secure in their...
Florida is one of four states that the American Civil Liberties Union focused on in a report that found people serving long sentences for possessing only small amounts of a drug. According to the ACLU, a significant amount of time and resources are put toward...
When a child under the age of 18 violates the law in Florida, the juvenile court system will usually handle their case. A minor may be sent to a detention center immediately after being taken into custody by a police officer, or the minor may be released to their...
Florida residents may have heard statements about the rising murder rate in the United States. According to a report by the Brennan Center for Justice, the rising murder rate is not a nationwide dilemma, but it's a problem that is being fueled by violence in Chicago....
