Monthly Archives: August 2024
Is A Mistake Of Fact Defense Your Ticket To An Acquittal?
Law students realize, by the time they finish their first semester course on criminal law, that the ways you can legitimately cast doubt on a defendant’s guilt are virtually endless. From alibis to prosecution witnesses with ulterior motives to unfairly obtained evidence, defenses go well beyond saying, “I didn’t do it.” You could spend… Read More »
Hope Cards And Florida Domestic Violence Cases
In public, everyone says that there is no such thing as a minor incident of domestic violence, but you probably know a couple that got in a fight, called the police, and then smoothed things over with few legal consequences, if any. Perhaps they are still together, even after multiple calls to the police… Read More »
Ketamine’s Hellish Cousin Is Gaining A Foothold In Florida
If you had surgery at an outpatient surgery clinic, chances are that you were not asleep through the entire procedure. The surgeon might have talked to you, and you might have understood. Perhaps you even responded, or maybe you just gibbered like a Minion, in response to an interlocutor visible only to you. If… Read More »
Opening Statements At Criminal Trials
In eighth grade, you learn that the first paragraph of an essay should contain a thesis statement, usually preceded by some introductory remarks that lead up to it. Teachers who have read enough such essays tend to joke that this rule leads to students beginning their essays with sentences like, “Throughout history, students have… Read More »
