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• Start here, 6 Things You Should Know About DUIs. The short read, six things worth knowing before you make any decisions about a Florida DUI charge. Free, and one email unlocks the whole library: get the PDF.
• No. 01: The Beginning of a DUI Case. Arrested for DUI in Florida? The clock on your license started the night you were arrested. This free guide explains the stop, the arrest, and your critical first 10 days.
• No. 02: The Breath Testing Device. The machine your case depends on, in plain language: how the Intoxilyzer 8000 measures, what it assumes about your body, and why a number near the line is an estimate, not a verdict.
• No. 03: The Roadside Exercises. Only three roadside exercises are standardized, and even done perfectly they guess at a breath number, not impairment. What the validation studies say, why declining is allowed, and what the video shows.
• No. 04: DUI and Alcohol: What the State Must Prove. The number on the machine feels like a verdict. It is not. What the State must prove in a Florida alcohol DUI, what a conviction costs, and the three roads out.
• No. 05: Drug DUI: Presence Is Not Impairment. Charged with a drug or prescription DUI in Florida? There is no legal limit for most drugs, so the State must prove real impairment, not just a positive test. This free guide shows you the difference.
• No. 06: How Police Build a DUI Case. Officers build DUI cases from a three-phase script, and I teach that script. See the cue lists, the accuracy numbers, and the deviations that give your defense its openings.
• No. 07: The People in Your DUI Case. A Florida DUI puts strangers in charge of your license and your record. Meet each one, learn what they can and cannot do, and see where a defense begins.
• No. 08: Hiring the Right DUI Lawyer. Every DUI lawyer’s website says aggressive. This guide gives you the exact questions that reveal who plans to fight your evidence and who plans to plead you out.
• No. 14: The DUI Blood Test. A forensic lawyer-scientist on when blood enters a Florida DUI, the difference between medical and legal blood, and every point in the chain where the number can fall apart.
• No. 16: Your College Student Got Arrested. Two clocks started the night your student was arrested, and the short one is the license. What Florida parents need to know about the deadline, the school, and the record.
• No. 18: Your Second DUI. A second DUI is a different case: mandatory jail inside the five-year window, a longer revocation, and fewer exits. This booklet explains what changes and where the fight is.
• No. 20: The DROP Program. How a first DUI in Pinellas or Pasco can become reckless driving: the two tiers, the withhold-versus-conviction divide at 0.120, and the strict timing rules that decide who gets in.
• No. 21: The RIDR Program. Hillsborough’s DUI diversion, level by level: the pre-plea interlock, the sanctions that scale with your reading, and why the withhold at the end is worth understanding before you decide.
• No. 22: The DETER Program. The Sarasota, Manatee, and DeSoto diversion program: four levels including a refusal level, a structured pre-plea phase, coverage for boating cases, and the real costs of the road to a withhold.

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• No. 09: Miranda Rights in Florida. Nobody read you your rights, and a friend swears the case gets tossed. It does not work that way. Here is what Miranda really protects, and how to keep that protection intact.
• No. 10: Charged With a Crime in Florida. The first-night orientation for anyone facing a Florida criminal charge: the first 24 hours, bond, court dates, what a defense lawyer challenges, and the two rules that protect you tonight.
• No. 11: Criminal Court, Translated. Booking, capias, nolo, withhold, docket sounding: criminal court runs on words nobody taught you. This guide translates them stage by stage, with what each one means for you.
• No. 12: Violation of Probation in Florida. No jury, a lower burden, and sometimes no bond. What a violation of probation strips away, what still protects you, and how a violation is fought, in plain English.
• No. 13: Theft Charges in Florida. Florida grades theft by dollar value, and the felony line is closer than you think. What the State must prove, the civil demand letter trap, and how to clean the record after.
• No. 15: Clearing Your Florida Record. The case is over, but the background check keeps finding it. What sealing and expunging each do, who qualifies, how long it takes, and why you only get one shot.

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• No. 17: After a Car Accident in Florida. The 14-day PIP rule, the serious injury threshold, Florida’s two-year filing deadline, and the insurer playbook: a plain-English map of the hours, days, and weeks after a Florida crash.
• No. 19: After a Slip and Fall in Florida. Fell in a store, restaurant, or apartment complex? This guide covers the first hours, Florida’s tough notice statute, the store’s playbook, and how a real claim gets built.
• No. 23: Attacked on Someone Else’s Property. When a property owner is responsible for an assault, robbery, or shooting, and how the civil case is built.

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Prefer the deep version? These guides are the short ones. Four full-length books cover the same ground properly: Arrested for DUI in Florida, Hurt in a Florida Car Crash, Hurt on Someone Else’s Property, and Hurt in a Florida Nursing Home. Each is free to the Floridians who need it, mailed from the first printing with the digital edition delivered instantly. See all the books.

These guides are general information about Florida law, not legal advice, and reading them does not create an attorney-client relationship. Every case is different, and past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.