Monthly Archives: October 2024
Failure to Appear in Court
People in their 40s and older have a vague memory of a Disney cartoon where Donald Duck’s nephews skip school and a police officer follows them around, trying to arrest them. In most cases, being absent from school or work will not get you arrested, although it can have plenty of other negative consequences. … Read More »
The Hope Card Program and Florida Domestic Violence Cases
Florida enacted several new laws in 2024, with the goal of preventing domestic violence, and specifically, with the goal of preventing violence-plagued relationships from escalating to the point of serious injury or death. These new laws require additional procedures by the courts and by law enforcement when police respond to domestic violence calls or… Read More »
Smartphones and the Fourth Amendment
The biggest tattletale in your second-grade class made sure that the teacher and all the students knew if anyone cheated at a game, picked their nose, or cut in front of someone else while waiting in line. The Internet-enabled device in your pocket, the one that you take with you everywhere, is an exponentially… Read More »
Can I Get In Trouble For Possession Of Gabapentin?
It was a normal Florida afternoon. David was driving his Ford truck, with his friend Nova in the passenger seat; the two had been helping Nova’s grandmother move to a new apartment. The police pulled them over because the truck had expired tags and, this being a Florida story, one thing led to another,… Read More »
What Is Habeas Corpus?
On the first day of class, teachers of introductory level Latin classes often ask the students why they chose to study Latin, given that it is no one’s native language, and people alive today who can converse in Latin are few. Almost any conversation that two Latin speakers might have could be more easily… Read More »
