Florida law enforcement officers can invoke the state's "stand your ground" self-defense law to protect them from criminal prosecution in some instances of deadly force, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday.
The court issued its 7-0 decision in the case of Peter Peraza, a Broward County sheriff's deputy charged with manslaughter in the 2013 fatal shooting of a man carrying what turned out to be an air rifle.
Peraza's lawyers... [...]
Coco’s, the legendary North Miami-Dade strip club that has played a role in many a fistfight, drug deal and shooting over the decades, must pay $8.7 million to a party promoter who suffered gunshot wounds during a melee just after Christmas 2011.
A Miami-Dade jury this month ordered the club to pay damages to Christopher Nealy, who was shot three times and underwent seven surgeries to help save his life. Nealy was hit in the crossfire... [...]
A South Florida organization of prosecutors that includes Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle is telling the Florida Supreme Court that the latest version of the state’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law is unconstitutional.
The League of Prosecutors, in newly filed court documents, asked justices to strike down the law because it unlawfully forces state attorneys to try cases involving... [...]
HIALEAH, Fla. - The wife of a man killed in a car crash involving a Miami-Dade police
officer spoke to reporters Thursday, a day after the officer was arrested.
Prosecutors allege that the officer's actions resulted in the death of Emilio Vizcaino, who was driving down a dark southwest Miami- Dade roadway around 1:30 a.m. March 6.
Eileen Avalos fought back tears as she described her late husband.
"He was an excellent father, a... [...]
The prime suspect in a string of mail bombs targeting prominent Democrats was essentially homeless in South Florida, living in his van and also building his dangerous devices in the vehicle, law enforcement sources told the Miami Herald on Friday.
Federal investigators towed the vehicle away from the parking lot at an AutoZone in Plantation shortly after arresting Cesar Sayoc, a 56-year-old ardent bodybuilder, former stripper and... [...]
