WILKERSON LAW FIRM, P.A.

“You’ve been checked and balanced!”   This is what the Florida court system is essentially saying to the legislature when it declares a state law unconstitutional.   However, State Representative Julio Gonzalez, a Venice, Florida Republican, is concerned that the judiciary has abused this power and has been “encroaching” on the legislature…

The United States Supreme Court, in Utah v. Shrieff,  has ruled that a valid arrest warrant is a sufficient intervening event to break the chain between an illegal stop or detention and the discovery and admissibility of evidence.  This  has impacted the well-established principal of law that, with some exceptions, when officers…

  June 23, 2016 — In the case of Demott, v. State, Demott argued that his probation requirement to “not associate with anyone who is illegally using drugs” was improperly vague and unconstitutional. The Florida Supreme Court found that the condition is specific enough to inform a defendant of the…