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The Ninth Judicial Circuit has finally started and opened its Veterans Diversion Court.  Orange County Judge Brewer is absolutely committed to making the Veterans Program a success in Orlando.  While the Ninth Circuit already has a pretrial diversion program for first time offenders, the Orlando Veteran's Court is sure to...

If you are ever pulled over because a law enforcement officer suspects that you have been driving drunk, he or she may ask you to submit to a breathalyzer test. This test will determine the blood alcohol content (BAC) in your body. Some individuals do not wish to submit to...

Not all drinks are created equal. It used to be that adults could make educated decisions about their levels of intoxication by understanding that 12 ounces of beer is equal in terms of alcoholic strength to five ounces of wine or a fairly standard 1.5 ounce shot of hard alcohol....

I vividly remember sitting in Professor Fletcher Baldwin's Criminal Procedure at the University of Florida and learning about the warrant requirements of the Fourth Amendment.  I seem to recall that without a warrant searches are presumed to be invalid.  The issuance of a search warrant requires probable cause which must...

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics the United States prison population is over two million people.  That is almost equivalent to the next two highest prison populations in the world COMBINED.  I know that as a country we always want to beat China (#2) and Russia (#3) but...