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The Florida Statute 775.087, [1] known as the 10-20-Life law, is a mandatory minimum sentencing law in the U.S. state of Florida. The law concerns the use of a firearm during the commission of a forcible felony. [2] [3] The Florida Statute's name comes from a set of three basic minimum sentences it provides for. A public service announcement ...
Battery is a specific common law offense, although the term is used more generally to refer to any unlawful offensive physical contact with another person. Battery is defined by American common law as "any unlawful and/or unwanted touching of the person of another by the aggressor, or by a substance put in motion by them".
Florida statute 782.04(1)(a)3. specifies that when a person 18 years of age or older unlawfully distributes certain controlled substances, including but not limited to cocaine, opium/opioids, fentanyl, carfentanil, methamphetamine, or analogs thereof, and the use of that substance alone is proven to have caused the death of the user or been a ...
The new allegation led to Lipsman’s Oct. 20 arrest on one count of sexual battery by a person 18 years or older against a person 18 years of age or older. ... A 65-year-old woman told PBSO ...
Florida police arrested a man who they say beat another man to death using his golf clubs at a course.. Junior Boucher, 36, has been accused of murdering 65-year-old Brian Hiltebeitel at Sandhill ...
In common law, battery is a tort falling under the umbrella term 'trespass to the person'. Entailing unlawful contact which is directed and intentional, or reckless (or, in Australia, negligently [1]) and voluntarily bringing about a harmful or offensive contact with a person or to something closely associated with them, such as a bag or purse, without legal consent.
Jessica's Law is the informal name given to a 2005 Florida law, as well as laws in several other states, designed to protect potential victims and reduce a sexual offender's ability to re-offend which includes a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in prison and lifetime electronic monitoring when the victim is less than 12 years old.
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