It isn’t all that unusual to assert an insanity defense. But winning a murder case on that basis is such a rarity that courthouse observers in a South Florida case…
After news earlier this week that William Dillon will not be retried in a murder case for which the apparently wrongfully convicted Florida man spent 27 years in prison, defense…
Individuals in the Tampa, Fla., area for whom “airport security,” “nasty nurse” and “Mad Science ElectroPlay” role-playing fantasies are a turn-on apparently now have more than one option, as far…
Updated: A utility worker has stumbled across the remains of a child about a quarter mile away from the Orlando home of Caylee Anthony, the 3-year-old girl who has been…
Despite a crackdown on individuals in Florida who had a significant role in writing millions of dollars worth of troubled mortgages, some of their colleagues who have been involved in…
A Florida attorney who worked as a title agent has been convicted by a federal jury in Fort Lauderdale of preparing real estate closing documents that helped another man defraud…
A newly elected public defender and state attorney in Florida’s Fourth Circuit in Jacksonville, Fla., have fired more than 20 lawyers in their offices, prompting threats of lawsuits.
The Florida Supreme Court grilled lawyers from both sides of an unprecedented dispute involving the possible discipline of a judge for critical remarks he made in a written opinion.
Lawyers have filed an ethics complaint against a newly elected Florida judge that contends her campaign ad implied they were trying to bribe her opponent.
More than 30 years after a young man disappeared in South Florida one July night in 1977, the mystery of what authorities later determined to be his death has reportedly…
A graduate of Florida Coastal law school is facing a criminal charge and a slander suit based on accusations that she created a fake e-mail implicating a professor in sexual…
The former office manager of a law firm in Punta Gorda, Fla., is facing more than 200 charges in connection with at least some of the $1.67 million that an…
When divorce attorney Martha-Irene Weed settled a matrimonial case for George Dumstorf Jr.in 2000, she had to contend with seemingly bizarre allegations of bigamy on the part of his soon-to-be…
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