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Prison Legal News v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, 890 F.3d 954 (11th Cir. 2018), [1] was a case before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in which the Court held that a prison's ban of the Prison Legal News (PLN) monthly magazine did not violate the First Amendment, but its failure to give notice as required by its own rules violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
Although the total amount of lost loan money was relatively modest compared to dozens of other COVID-19 relief fraud cases in South Florida, the sheer number of law enforcement officers charged ...
Florida passed HB 1371, the Prisoner Release Reoffender Act, in May 1997. [2] This so-called "two-strikes" law dictates that individuals convicted of certain categories of crime who reoffend within three years is subject to life in prison without parole, even if this is only a second offense, gaining the distinction of, "one of the strictest sentencing laws in the US."
The three-legged electric chair was constructed from oak by Department of Corrections personnel in 1998 and was installed at Florida State Prison in Starke in 1999. The executioner is a private citizen who is paid $150 per execution. State law allows for his or her identity to remain anonymous. [15]
A South Florida man facing prison for his role in stealing millions from a federal COVID-19 loan program not only faces a prison term but also another consequence of his crime — loss of his ...
But as her criminal case wound through the legal system, the State Attorney’s Office embarked on a wider fraud probe into the HOA — and again found itself stymied by the board while trying to ...
The Florida Statutes are the codified statutory laws of the state. [1] The Florida Constitution defines how the statutes must be passed into law, and defines the limits of authority and basic law that the Florida Statutes must be complied with. Laws are approved by the Florida Legislature and signed into law by the Governor of Florida. Certain ...
A South Florida doctor who served as the medical director of two substance-abuse facilities was sentenced Thursday to four and a half years in prison after being convicted of conspiring to bill ...