by Robert Erickson | Sep 28, 2026 | Criminal Defense, Juvenile Defense
Parents whose child has been arrested in Florida usually assume the case will be handled in juvenile court. That is where the diversion programs are, where the focus is on rehabilitation, and where a record can eventually be sealed. What almost nobody knows is that...
by Robert Erickson | Sep 24, 2026 | Criminal Defense, Theft Defense
A bookkeeper is called into a conference room where the owner, an outside accountant, and sometimes a lawyer are waiting. There is a spreadsheet on the table. The questions are calm and specific, and somewhere in the conversation comes a version of the line that ends...
by Robert Erickson | Sep 21, 2026 | Criminal Defense, White-Collar Defense
The envelope is addressed to the company, not to a person. Inside is a grand jury subpoena listing categories of documents and a return date a few weeks out. Nobody has been arrested, nobody has been charged, and the natural instinct is relief — this is about the...
by Robert Erickson | Sep 17, 2026 | Criminal Defense, Federal Criminal Defense
In state court, bond is usually a number. Someone posts it and the defendant goes home. Families arriving at the federal courthouse in Miami expect a version of that, and instead they find a hearing where no amount of money is the question, the government may be...
by Robert Erickson | Sep 14, 2026 | Criminal Defense, DUI Defense
Two separate cases start the night of a DUI arrest, and only one of them happens in a courtroom. The criminal case gets a court date weeks out. The other one is administrative, it belongs to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, and it runs on a clock...
by Robert Erickson | Sep 10, 2026 | Criminal Defense, Drug Crime Defense
Four people are in a car. An officer finds a bag under the passenger seat. Everyone says it isn’t theirs, and by the end of the night everyone in that car has been arrested. The natural reaction is that this cannot possibly be how it works, because three of...
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