It has long been a principle in American jurisdiction that others who aided the commission of a crime should face punishment as well as those who carry out the actual criminal act. In Florida, the law holds that a person who aids a person after they have committed a...
Whether due to pop culture, urban legend, false assumptions, or a host of other reasons, there are several myths about Florida criminal law that persist in the minds of many Floridians. What follows is a discussion of several of those myths and why they are false....
Organizations, agencies and businesses that receive federal grants have certain responsibilities. According to Grants.gov, these include accounting for costs and justifying expenditures to show that grant fraud has not taken place. Grant fraud, in its broadest...
With the changing of the calendar each year comes changes to the laws of the state of Florida and jurisdictions related to it. As ignorance of a law is not generally recognized as a defense to breaking it in most jurisdictions, it pays to keep track of significant...
In the latest election the voters of the state of Oregon agreed to decriminalize the possession of all once-illegal drugs in their state. Not long after, a bill passed the United States House of Representatives that would decriminalize marijuana on the federal level....
