Money laundering for most of us is finding a $10 bill in the clothes dryer. Forgetting to check your pockets when you put your jeans in the laundry is the precursor to clothes dryer joy. Forgetting to check your pockets for the $10,000.00 in pocket-change you carry when you walk…
Local criminal lawyer Ralph Behr represents several mortgage brokers accused of fraud and related crimes in South Florida, Miami and Fort Lauderale. But not the one sentenced by a local Federal Judge. Sadly Mr. Villaba, who pled guilty, was sentenced to six years and a heavy send off from the…
FLORIDA FELONY LAW AND GUNS The June 2008 US Supreme Court decision may arguably force a change in Florida’s law prohibiting those with a felony conviction from owning or possesing a gun. Fort Lauderdale and Miami have the highest rate of gun ownership in Florida, and the highest felony conviction…
South Florida, Miami and Fort Lauderdale have more judges on TV than any other State. Why? Miami and Fort Lauderdale have more colorful judges hearing more criminal trials then the TV moguls can shake a TV ad rate card at high rolling sponsors. Among our now famous South Florida crime…
July 1, 2008 is Florida’s ‘take your gun to work’ day. South Florida workplace parking lots will soon lite up with muzzle flashes as well as street lighting. Miami, Palm Beach, Broward, and Fort Lauderdale workplaces now must permit employees to bring a gun to work. You must have a…
2008 is a bumper year for new criminal laws. Soon the prosecutors of Florida will have a new statute to use against those arrested in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. The Anti-Gang crime statute. Singed into law it is now a first degree felony punishable by life in prison for those…
Federal criminal prosecutions too often are one-sided. For many accused and tried in Federal court it appears to them that the rules change with each turn of the wheel. Florida federal criminal defense attorneys see it again and again. From drug possession prosecutions through wire fraud and money laundering the…
US SUPREME COURT IN SPRING 2008 RULES ON DC GUN BAN Q: What does this mean for Florida criminal law? In what will soon be regarded as a landmark decision, Florida criminal defense attorney Ralph Behr has issued advisories to his clients concerning gun possession and related gun possession charges.…
SPRING TERM 2008 U.S. SUPREME COURT NEWS The lethal injection process of execution has been found by the US Supreme Court as not violative of the US constitution. The most recent ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court permits Florida to continue to execute by lethal injection. Broward County and Fort…
In a press release from the Law Offices of Ralph Behr on June 16, 2008 South Florida criminal defense attorney Ralph Behr announced his office will argue what may be the first criminal case in Florida which demands immunity from prosecution for lawful acts of self defense. The criminal case…