Monthly Archives: March 2024
Pill Presses: Harmless Ecommerce Gig Or Drug Trafficking Paraphernalia?
If drug users are creative enough, almost anything can be drug paraphernalia. Everyone has a friend of a friend who turned an apple into a pipe for smoking weed. If you are making pot brownies, then a box of Betty Crocker brownie mix from the dollar store is drug paraphernalia. Pill presses are different. … Read More »
How To Get Post-Conviction Relief In Florida
You don’t have to be a criminal justice reform activist to know that some of the people who receive criminal penalties have been wrongfully convicted. Almost anyone who has served time in prison has met numerous inmates who complain that some aspect of their trial or sentence was unfair, even though, as the stereotype… Read More »
Are You Obstructing Justice If You Just Go About Your Business Until Your Trial?
In some comedy sketches, authority figures seem determined to punish the common man for any and every little thing, and when the everyman character dares to ask why, the tyrant keeps issuing more and more demerits until a ridiculous number of them pile up. The likes of Franz Kafka also wrote about similar situations,… Read More »
The Lack Of Criminal Intent Defense
When it is obvious that no one will believe you that you didn’t do it, can you talk your way out of trouble by saying, “I didn’t do it on purpose?” It depends on the context. Your grandparents will probably still be mad that you knocked over the ceramic lamp, even though it was… Read More »