Miami Criminal Lawyer Blog

The parents of 15-year-old, Jose Guadalupe Walle, said their son used to be a soccer player and good student that eventually got involved with the wrong crowd in middle school. Walle was involved with marijuana and was eventually sent to drug treatment and counseling.

The parents of Walle asked him to be punished by the juvenile court, but he was eventually released. Walle ran away four months before he was put behind bars for his crime, and the parents were informed that the only way the teenager would be caught and found was if he committed a crime. At 13-years-old, Walle was out on the street involving himself with LSD, cocaine, Xanax and alcohol.

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Miami Heat forward, Dorell Wright, was recently arrested for driving under the influence and with a suspended license. According to the arrest report, Wright was driving along South Beach on Thursday around 3:37 AM when he was pulled over. Officers reported that Wright was driving crazily, and he smelled of alcohol and had blood shot, watery eyes.

It was also reported that Wright could not provide current insurance on his vehicle, and he was driving 52 miles per hour in a 25 mile per hour zone. It was a rough estimate of five hours after his prior basketball game ended when he was pulled over and arrested. Wright, 24, is the second Heat player that has been arrested for driving under influence within the past two weeks.

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Back in 2008, an 11-year-old girl was almost abducted from her own bed. Timothy Schlafer, now 21, is currently going through a trial process for this incident. According to the Sun Sentinel, Schlafer’s excuse for the confusion was drugs.

Schlafer was a senior at Coral Springs High. He had been accepted to Florida Atlantic University through a scholarship. Prior to the accused abduction, Schlafer was at a party where he consumed a large amount of beer, Xanax and LSD. It was reported that Schlafer thought he had walked into his own home, but shouting police startled him and proved otherwise.

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In July 2008, three young men attacked a 54-year-old man, James Cunningham, in Pompano Beach. The evidence of the attack was then posted on YouTube via the internet. Prosecutors recently dropped all kidnapping charges on Tuesday, March 2, 2010. The victim did not report the incident, but officials came across the video while they were searching for another assault video.

According to the Miami Herald, the video was titled, “Beating up a Crackhead.” The three suspects were Brandon Edwards of Fort Lauderdale, 19; William Sleight of Deerfield Beach, 19; and Bradley Wunderlich of Parkland, 22. An accomplice helped record the video with Sleight who is also 19-years-old, Nicholas Bakum.

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Scott Rothstein was previously known as a lawyer, but he has recently pled guilty to a crime involving money laundering, fraud and RICO conspiracy. This plea has disbarred him from having a career in law, and he can face up to thirty years in prison.

Rico stands for Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations. Rothstein ran an investment for over one billion dollars. The defendant had originally pled not guilty in December, but decided to change his plea. Rothstein was the backbone to the biggest investment fraud in case in the history of South Florida.

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The most organized crime in the United States is drug trafficking. There is an annual income of $110 billion in this crime. American pilots are usually the way for the Colombian drug cartel to transport their cocaine and other such drugs. These pilots are usually ex-military and sometimes unlicensed aviators.

Yuby Ramirez, a Miami-Dade mom, previously ran in the middle of the circle of drug lords. Ramirez played a large supporting role in the murder of a government witness, which will cause her to serve the rest of her life behind bars.

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Wrongful decisions and mistakes can cause you or someone you know to have problems in the future. A criminal record will follow you around when applying for jobs, financing vehicles and trying to purchase a home. The best way to take care of this situation is to have a Miami criminal defense lawyer seal or expunge your record.

Process of Expunging

Miami criminal attorneys can assist you in expunging your record in many ways.

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Driving under the influence is a zero tolerance crime in every state. The majority of automobile accidents that occur are due to drunk driving. It does not matter how many drinks you think you had because the blood alcohol content says it all.

It can be a very nerve racking and stressful situation if you or someone you know has ever been arrested for driving under the influence. It is a law once in custody that the police officer must read you your Miranda Rights that informs you that you do have the right to an attorney, but whatever you say may be used against you in court.

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Twenty four year old, Damon Darling, and thirty one year old, Leroy Larose, are currently the talk of Florida right now. Florida residents know of these two defendants because of their slaying of a nine-year-old girl, Sherdavia Jenkins. The murder took place in 2006 in a Liberty Housing project.

These two defendants are facing a jury trial together with the help of their Miami criminal lawyers. The charges for Darling and Larose are second-degree murder of Jenkins and first-degree murder for attempting to kill each other. The two defendants got into a shoot out in broad daylight back on this terrible day in 2006. One of the bullets fatally struck Jenkins, killing her. Both defendants claim they were shooting in self-defense.

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Robberies can be very dangerous situations under any circumstance. There are ways to prevent robberies from occurring at home, at work and even on the road. If an unfortunate robbery occurs, then a Miami criminal lawyer can represent the victim and help in any way possible.

A Miami-Dade robbery has left a man injured and a seventeen-year-old boy dead. Woodrow Walker Sr. was in his Miami-Dade apartment when two robbers intruded and forced their way into his truck outside. Woodrow is in the hospital receiving treatment for his injuries, but unfortunately, a bullet killed the seventeen-year old boy, Gerald Daniels. Officials are trying to figure out if one of the bullets that were fired at Walker killed Daniels.

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Domestic homicide is, unfortunately, a common thing in the United States. There are times when partners get into disputes where one partner ends up hurting the other partner critically, if not fatally. Miami criminal lawyers have the experience to represent clients in these types of situations.

A man from Pompano Beach in Florida has been charged with the abduction and homicide of his ex-girlfriend. The defendant, Anton Jamar Josey, is thirty-four years old, and his ex-girlfriend, Dominique Duval was twenty-three. Josey claims that he shot Duval because she gave him HIV, the virus that is known as causing AIDS.

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Everyone knows that it can be dangerous entering personal information over the internet. Theft is a serious and non-tolerated crime in the United States, and because of the internet, there is such a theft as cyber theft. Cyber theft is commonly known as an identity fraud or financial loss that can happen from directly entering personal information for any purpose such as banking or shopping. There are computer savvy people out there that can hack into the system and retrieve your information.

Cyber Theft Crimes

Albert Gonzalez, a Miami resident, has pled guilty to the largest identity theft in the nation. The theft involved over 130,000 accounts that appear to be corporate companies. Now twenty-eight, Gonzalez is confessing to his second case of computer hacking this year.

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