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Fourteen Arrests in Two Fraternity Houses: How the Penn State Cocaine Case Would Run in Florida

Fourteen arrests in two fraternity houses, charges running from trafficking down to paraphernalia, and one father charged for trying to help. The Florida version of this case turns on 28 grams, a conspiracy statute punished like trafficking itself, and a dorm case from FSU....
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Michael Caruso Arrest: What the Palm Beach Clerk of Court’s Five Florida Charges Actually Mean

Florida's Office of Statewide Prosecution charged the Palm Beach County Clerk of Court with five felonies. Each charge is a specific statute with its own elements, and the charge list itself tells you the State's theory. A Florida defense lawyer walks through all five....
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Tony Romo’s OWI Arrest, and the Strange Reason the Same Night Would Be Worse in Florida

On the evening of Thursday, July 23, 2026, a Milwaukee County sheriff's deputy stopped a car on the I-43 high-rise bridge. The driver was Tony Romo, the former Dallas quarterback and, since 2017, the lead NFL analyst at CBS. He was arrested on suspicion of operating while intoxicated, first offense....
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Ethan Jamieson, a Protective Order, and Your Gun Rights in Florida

Ethan Jamieson, who played a District 4 tribute in the 2012 film The Hunger Games, was charged in North Carolina this spring over a shooting in which a gun was allegedly fired toward an occupied vehicle....
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Lil Nas X, Battery on an Officer, and How Florida Handles a Mental Health Crisis

In August 2025, Lil Nas X was found walking in the street in the early morning hours, in obvious distress....
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Clavicular, a Filmed Fight, and How Florida Charges the Person Who Did Not Throw the Punch

The online streamer known as Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Peters, was arrested in Broward County on a warrant out of Osceola County for misdemeanor battery and criminal conspiracy to commit battery....
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A Punch and a Trashed Lounge: The Trey Songz Charges in Florida Terms

Trey Songz was charged in New York over two December incidents....
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Terrion Arnold and the Law of Directing a Crime You Did Not Carry Out

Terrion Arnold, a cornerback for the Detroit Lions, turned himself in at a Hillsborough County jail this week and was charged with eight felonies: four counts of kidnapping and four counts of armed robbery, with a possible life sentence....
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What the Chris Brown Dog-Bite Case Shows About Florida's Strict Liability Law

A housekeeper named Maria Avila says she was mauled by Chris Brown's dog, named Hades, while she was removing trash from his home, and that she was left covered in blood....
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Why Terrion Arnold Is Being Held With No Bond in Florida

Terrion Arnold surrendered to authorities and is being held in a Florida jail with no bond at all, and the State has signaled it will ask a judge to keep him locked up until trial because, it argues, he is a danger to the community....
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