Police Stops, Searches & Your Rights

The (c)(4) motion to dismiss under Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.190(c)(4) — renumbered 3.190(d)(2) effective July 13, 2026 — is criminal court’s summary judgment.

Florida Statute 943.0435 requires anyone designated a sexual offender to register in person with the sheriff and keep that registration current for life unless a court removes the requirement. The deadlines are brutally short — most obligations run on a 48-hour clock — and missing one is a felony. Core requirements under § 943.0435 Initial

Florida Statute 843.02 — resisting an officer without violence, written as RWOV or “resist w/o” on booking sheets — makes it a first-degree misdemeanor (up to 1 year) to “resist, obstruct, or oppose” an officer in the lawful execution of a legal duty, without violence. It is among the most-charged offenses in Polk County, often

Florida Statute 856.011 — disorderly intoxication — is the charge that follows a rough night out. It is a second-degree misdemeanor (up to 60 days), and it requires more than simply being drunk. What the state must actually prove There are two distinct ways to violate the statute: being intoxicated and endangering the safety of

Florida Statute 907.041 controls whether you sit in jail or go home while your case is pending. It starts from a presumption in favor of release on nonmonetary conditions — but that presumption disappears fast when the charge is on the “dangerous crime” list. “Dangerous crimes” under § 907.041 The list includes arson, aggravated assault,

At least 50 officers nationwide — including two in Florida — have been accused of turning license-plate cameras into personal tracking tools. The logs that caught them are the same logs a defense lawyer can demand in your case.

Public records show two Florida sheriff’s offices have bought Meta’s camera-equipped smart glasses. Florida’s body-camera statute — and the discovery rules in every criminal case — have something to say about that.

Florida Statute 948.06 governs violation of probation (VOP). A VOP is not a new crime — it reopens the sentence you were already serving, and the rules are stacked differently than in a normal criminal case. How a VOP starts Your probation officer signs an affidavit; a judge can issue a warrant on it, and

Florida Statute 775.15 decides how long the State has to charge you; speedy trial decides how long it has to try you. The ladder, the exceptions that swallow it, the unserved-warrant trap, and the clean distinction between the two clocks.

Florida Statute 944.275 is the gain-time statute — the rules that let a Department of Corrections inmate earn time off a prison sentence. It is also one of the most misunderstood statutes in Florida law, because the answer to almost every gain-time question is: it depends on the date of the offense, not the date