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27 May 2010, 4:46 am
  And it might help account for the fact that prison sentences in the United States are so much lengthier than sentences for the same crimes in other comparable Western countries. [read post]
26 May 2010, 11:35 am
He was sentenced to life in prison, which in Florida meant that parole was not possible. [read post]
26 May 2010, 6:46 am by Adam Chandler
Florida, the juvenile life-without-parole case decided last week. [read post]
26 May 2010, 4:45 am by Rumpole
The other disturbing fact arising from this story is the prosecution's steadfast refusal to waiver from a three year minimum mandatory state prison offer although the defendant had no priors and never fired his weapon. [read post]
25 May 2010, 2:57 pm by The Injustice Must End (TIME) Committee
Those inmates are in Florida and seven other states -- California, Delaware, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska and South Carolina -- according to a Florida State University study. [read post]
25 May 2010, 7:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Rose faces a prison term of up to 1 1/3-to-4 years and Transue faces up to two years in jail. [read post]
24 May 2010, 12:05 pm by Steve Hall
Both need to do their part right away.Incoming Senate President Mike Haridopolos, R-Melbourne, moved through the $200,000 earmark this past session, and argued the merits of this approach, which other states use to help law enforcement agencies, prosecutors and public defenders avoid mistakes that lead to wrongful prosecution and incarceration.Such errors are beyond terrible for those who spend years in prison because of mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions,… [read post]
24 May 2010, 11:39 am by Jacksonville Personal Injury Attorney
For a misdemeanor of the second degree, state law defines the imprisonment not to exceed 60 days under Florida law 775.082. [read post]
24 May 2010, 10:46 am by Kent Scheidegger
"Florida further criticizes this study because the authors were unable to obtain complete information on some States and because the study was not peer reviewed. [read post]
24 May 2010, 8:43 am by Lynda Barack
Pete Times today (the print edition, anyway), written by an undergraduate at Florida State, discussing the need for an Innocence Commission in Florida. [read post]
24 May 2010, 6:37 am by James Bickford
Circuit ruled that military prisoners at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan could not file habeas corpus petitions in American courts. [read post]
24 May 2010, 3:22 am by SOIssues
Myth: Residency restrictions are harmless to sex offenders and protect kids A 2005 survey of 135 Florida sex offenders by researchers Jill Levenson and Leo Cotter found that residency restrictions had forced 22 percent of this group to move out of homes they already owned. 25 percent were unable to return to their homes after release from prison. [read post]
24 May 2010, 2:16 am by SOIssues
In many states schools and libraries are off limits to sex offenders. [read post]
23 May 2010, 6:51 pm
Florida is just such an example of a horrid injustice produced by mandatory sentencing laws. [read post]
22 May 2010, 12:34 pm by Shorstein & Lasnetski
In Florida, a DUI charge can be anything from a misdemeanor for a first offense that normally carries penalties such as probation, a license suspention, a fine and community service to a third degree felony whcih can carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison to a first degree felony which can carry significant prison time. [read post]
21 May 2010, 8:34 am by Lynda Barack
  Florida has different sentencing structures, some of which have similarly unexpected outcomes from time to time. [read post]