Almost everyone has heard of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. If nothing else, you’ve heard dialog in a movie or on television where a police officer informs someone being arrested of their “right to remain silent” because anything they say “may be used against them in a court [...]
As Florida traffic ticket lawyers, most of our time is spent telling people what to do about tickets after they have already received the tickets. While we have a long history of helping people to avoid the most severe consequences of minor traffic violations, we often wish that our clients [...]
In all of my years of being a traffic ticket attorney, I’ve never heard a client remark how pleasant or enjoyable it was to take a trip to the DMV. The DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) or your own personal hell, is a maze full of confusing paperwork, bureaucracies, lines, [...]
Most of the time, people want other people to remember them. If you run into someone that you once met and he or she has no idea who you are, you probably get at least slightly offended. Human beings usually want to be remembered by other people they encounter. However, [...]
Some people seem to be magnets for tickets. Whether it's speeding traffic tickets, red light camera tickets or some other type of traffic ticket, there are some people who get them again and again. Sometimes, they even get them from the same law enforcement officers over and over again. This [...]
If you are Spike Lee or Mark Zuckerberg, you can dress however you want and nobody is going to criticize you. However, if you are not a famous film maker or renowned billionaire, you need to think about what you put on your body. Most of us have heard the [...]
Florida has a teen driving problem. No one denies that. The highest per capita rate for fatal traffic accidents involving teens in the nation is in Florida. There might be many reasons for that. Many roads in Florida are extremely congested and people often drive faster than they should in [...]
By now most Florida drivers know that fines are not the only thing that comes with traffic tickets. As I have discussed numerous times, traffic tickets also cause your insurance rates to increase. Actually, they do not just cause an increase in insurance rates, traffic tickets can cause your insurance [...]
It is something out of a nightmare. You go on what you think will be a relaxing vacation on the beach. However, through some bizarre turn of events, you wind up being accused of breaking the law while you are on vacation. You might not even have known about the [...]
A client came into our Hollywood office for a free consultation last week. He had two tickets, one for speeding and the other traffic ticket was for not wearing a seatbelt (which he removed to reach over and grab his registration and insurance card). He asked me if it was [...]