It can be humiliating and infuriating to have criminal charges brought against you for something as silly as public urination. However, Florida does have laws against urinating in public, and you could face real legal consequences if the prosecutor manages to convict...
Certain actions are crimes for everyone involved, even if no one is a victim. Some people refer to these kinds of criminal offenses as consensual crimes. The sale of illegal drugs from one person to another is a form of consensual crime. Neither person is experiencing...
Domestic abuse is a terrifying thing, and one of the most frightening and serious criminal acts under the law. It is a special kind of torture in which victims face emotional, psychological and sometimes physical trauma on a daily basis, and there is often nowhere for...
In many states, most sex crimes are given their own classification, treated as separate crimes. This is not the case with Florida law, where many different sex-related crimes all fall under the umbrella of sexual battery. Previously independent crimes such as rape and...
When most people think of sex crimes, they imagine a situation where someone sexually assaults another person by forcefully penetrating them against their will or coercing them into consenting to something they do not want to do. While these are certainly common types...
Unlike some states, Florida law does not recognize rape as its own criminal offense. Instead, rape is included as an additional type of sexual battery offense. As such, the prosecution must prove that sexual battery occurred, or that elements of a sexual battery...
There are some cases of sexual assault that are cut-and-dry: the accused fingerprints and fluids are found on the victim's clothes or person, or the accused has a concrete alibi for where they were when the assault allegedly occurred. But for one reason or another,...
Sex crimes are very serious legal matters that can come with steep legal penalties if a person is convicted. There are many different types of sex crimes, but the most well-known and arguably the most common are sexual assault and rape. Many people know rape as...
For the most part, rape is a pretty cut-and-try criminal offense. If any form of sexual intercourse is attempted or performed by one part on another party without one party's consent, regardless of the genders of the aggressor and the victim, then it is considered...
Those who have been accused of domestic violence know just how frightening and nightmarish such an incident can be. Even well after the incident, those charged may fear undue punishment, judgment and realize greater conflict among their loved ones. Fortunately, the...