Criminal Defense Blog

December 15, 2011

Imagine you do something wrong and then confide in a colleague or new “friend” … and then imagine that colleague or your “friend” is working quietly and confidentially with his Government to reduce or mitigate his earlier sentence (ie, typically …

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December 13, 2011

Fort Lauderdale criminal defense lawyer John Contini offers just a little insight into how you might get some help if wrongfully charged with a crime: I will just briefly and generally state the legal defense of “mere presence,” a defense …

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December 12, 2011

Our own Government, it appears, is enhancing the category, level and punishment scale associated with most criminal activities, including your run of the mill drug possession charges; and though this may sound like good solid law enforcement and good for …

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September 8, 2011

Unbelievable! Reporters Brian Haas and Andrew BA Tran (no doubt very nice people, however misguided) sounded very informed and even quite smart – they had obviously done their homework and had apparently asked all the right questions of all the …

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September 7, 2011

 By John Contini The beauty of being both a criminal defense attorney and a born again believer is that the arena is clearly a mission field, a real ministry. Of course, this is only true to the extent that the …

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