The War on Terror gave us federal anti-terror-hoax laws. Now the FBI is using them to punish a man who falsely claimed to have COVID-19.
Requiring unanimous juries underscores the gravity of a death penalty sentence.
The preliminary results imply an infection fatality rate of 0.2 percent, similar to estimates from two California studies.
Miami’s police chief orders officers to reduce ticketing and public interactions. Mayhem doesn’t ensue.
Police chief: "it is imperative that our law enforcement Officers project an image of command and authority."
Adjudication Outside Article III (part two)
A bizarre Florida “red flag” case shows the importance of safeguards that protect people’s Second Amendment rights.
One of the officers was fired after arresting two 6-year-olds in one day.
"Equally guilty but wealthier felons are offered access to the ballot while these plaintiffs continue to be disenfranchised, perhaps forever."
In Broward County, judges almost never reject police petitions for gun confiscation orders.
Undercover sheriff's deputies posing as homeowners hired handymen to paint, install recessed lighting, or do other tasks that require licenses. Then they arrested them.
Former prosecutor Bennett Gershman: "The use of jailhouse informants...is one of the great abuses in criminal trials across America."
Florida has had more exonerations of death row inmates than any other state in the U.S.
The Court argues that Amendment 4's language covers financial obligations, not just terms of imprisonment and supervised release.
Three deputies were placed on leave after the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office received the video.
James Dailey is running out of options to prove his innocence.
Those who reported sexual abuse were sent to a county jail, the suit alleges.
Somewhere between 650 and 1,000 Florida inmates are serving sentences under draconian opioid trafficking laws that have since been rolled back.
Inmates say Keith Turner abused them for a decade. Now children have stepped forward with complaints of molestation.
Inmates complained for years that they were in fear for their lives. Now one of them is a quadriplegic.
The ruling is a partial victory for civil liberties groups, who argue that lawmakers were subverting a constitutional amendment expected to restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians.
Michael Drejka said he had to shoot Markeis McGlockton in self-defense. Jurors disagreed.
The case is yet another example of our excessively penal criminal justice system.
Miami Beach's crackdown on Airbnb is "in jarring conflict" with a state law capping municipal fines at $1,000 per day, Judge Michael Hanzman ruled.
Cheryl Weimar, 51, is now a quadriplegic after what a lawsuit describes as a "malicious and sadistic beating" by Florida prison guards.
High prices can bring much-needed supplies into a disaster zone.
Dean Higgins claims he was put in a cell that regularly flooded with raw sewage for seven months after he bit a guard while having an involuntary seizure.
"Joke or not, these types of comments are felonies under the law," says the Volusia County Sheriff's Office
The suit came after the school denied funding to bring Dana Loesch and Andrew Klavan to campus.
In one month, two sheriff's deputies in Florida have been arrested for fabricating drug evidence during traffic stops.
No diploma, no making money telling people how to eat better.
Reason uncovered body camera footage of the officer lying about a roadside field test for drugs.
We wouldn’t have to squabble over control of shared institutions if we were free to pick the right schools for our kids.
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