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A routine traffic stop off the highway can change quickly when an officer walks up to the window and says, “I smell marijuana.” There might be legal hemp flower in the car, a passenger could have a Florida medical marijuana card, or there may be no marijuana at all. If...

When people hear “cocaine trafficking,” they may picture kilos of drugs, large cash transactions, and an organized distribution operation. Florida law can tell a very different story. A trafficking allegation may stem from a single bag found in a car, hotel room, or home, without evidence of a completed sale...

Two cocaine cases involving the same weight can produce very different sentencing exposure depending on where the case is prosecuted. After an arrest in Kissimmee or Orlando, 28 grams of powder cocaine and 28 grams of crack may be treated alike under Florida’s trafficking law but very differently under federal...

A stop near downtown Orlando begins with a minor traffic violation. While the officer still has your license, another cruiser arrives with a K-9. The dog circles the vehicle, the handler says it “alerted,” and officers begin searching. A dog’s alert does not automatically make that search lawful. Challenging a...

You leave the Orange County Booking and Release Center after a drug arrest with one question that matters more than almost anything else: Is there a way to keep this from becoming a conviction? Moses and Rooth Attorneys at Law understand the seriousness of the question you are asking, and...