St. Lucie County Sexual Battery Attorney Wins Acquittal June 2021 the St. Lucie County Sheriff’ Office arrests a man and charge him with Sexual Battery and Battery by Strangulation.  Conviction of sexual battery alone could result in imprisonment of up to 15 years, and the State later added an additional charge of aggravated battery, a...Read More

Sex offense allegations in Florida are extremely serious because of the severity of the potential penalties. When someone is convicted of a sex offense, they might face years in prison followed by mandatory sex offender registration. One type of sex offense that can result in a harsh prison sentence followed by mandatory registration as a...Read More

Have You Been Arrested on Fort Pierce Drug Trafficking Charges? Being charged with drug crimes in Florida can be frightening. The state treats drug crimes severely. However, simply being charged does not necessarily mean that you will be convicted. If you retain an experienced criminal defense lawyer, your charges might even be dismissed. Recently, Fort...Read More

J.J. was charged with felony Possession of Oxcodone, a third-degree felony per Ch. 893.13(6)(a), Fla. Stat. While traveling home from work, he was stopped by a Sebastian Police Department K-9 officer in Indian River County for failing to come to a  “full and complete stop” at a stop sign. The K-9 officer had his drug...Read More

C.S. is a twenty-six (26) year old woman with no prior criminal record. While driving northbound on I-95 in St. Lucie county, a cop traveling in the opposite direction claimed he saw C.S. following the car directly in front of her “too closely.” The Deputy made a U-turn, caught up with C.S. and pulled her...Read More

Saint Lucie Child Pornography Lawyer Jonathan Jay Kirschner On March 31, 2020  felony criminal charges pending against a wrongfully accused client were unconditionally ‘dropped’ by State prosecutors. The prosecution resulted from an on-line investigation initiated by the Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) on the ‘BitTorrent’ Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing network, attempting to...Read More

A law enforcement officer’s empathy for a turtle injured by a passing car cannot justify an unlawful search and criminal prosecution……. It’s simple.   Anger resulting from empathy for an injured animal does not give the police the right to search your car and arrest you. Most of us like turtles.   They’re goofy, obstinate, relentless, single-minded,...Read More

Q: What’s worse than a human being who willfully tortures a dog??????? A:  —— An innocent man, wrongfully arrested, jailed and ACCUSED of  torturing an animal…..when he did nothing, nothing, NOTHING wrong. Charges were finally dropped against D.A. a few weeks ago.  But not before he’d been wrongfully arrested, held in jail, had his bond...Read More

Florida is a large State, oriented primarily north and south. There are but three practical ways to drive from anywhere in the country to South Florida, and from South Florida to just about anyplace else. Two out of three of those roadways, the Turnpike and I-95, will take you through both MARTIN and ST. LUCIE...Read More