by Robert Erickson | Aug 24, 2026 | Criminal Defense, Juvenile Defense
The call every parent dreads comes on a Tuesday afternoon. Your teenager has been picked up. A fight at school, something taken from a store, spray paint on a wall. Before the panic fully sets in, here’s something worth knowing: in Miami-Dade County a...
by Robert Erickson | Aug 20, 2026 | Criminal Defense, Theft Defense
Four separate incidents, none of them individually worth much. Each one standing alone would be a misdemeanor. Then the charging document arrives and it’s a felony. That’s aggregation, and it’s one of the least understood mechanics in Florida theft...
by Robert Erickson | Aug 17, 2026 | Criminal Defense, White-Collar Defense
Ask a federal defense attorney which statute the government reaches for most often in white-collar cases and you’ll get the same answer nearly every time. Wire fraud. Not because it targets a specific industry or a particular kind of scheme, but because...
by Robert Erickson | Aug 13, 2026 | Criminal Defense, Federal Criminal Defense
It arrives in the mail like anything else. Letterhead from the United States Attorney’s Office, a couple of paragraphs, and a sentence explaining that you are a target of a federal grand jury investigation. No agents at the door, no handcuffs, just paper. That...
by Robert Erickson | Aug 10, 2026 | Criminal Defense, DUI Defense
After a first DUI arrest in Miami-Dade, somebody always mentions a program called Back on Track. A friend went through it. A coworker’s brother did it. The way it gets described in parking lots and group chats, it sounds like a formality — take some classes, pay...
by Robert Erickson | Aug 6, 2026 | Criminal Defense, Drug Crime Defense
Two people get pulled over in Miami-Dade on the same night. Both have cocaine in the car. One walks into court facing a possession charge. The other faces trafficking and a mandatory three years in prison, no matter how clean their record is or what the judge thinks...
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