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McLaughlin v. Florida, 379 U.S. 184 (1964), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a cohabitation law of Florida, part of the state's anti-miscegenation laws, was unconstitutional. [1] The law prohibited habitual cohabitation by two unmarried people of opposite sex, if one was black and the other was white.
Embezzlement is not always a form of theft or an act of stealing per se, since those definitions specifically deal with taking something that does not belong to the perpetrators. Instead, embezzlement is, more generically, an act of deceitfully secreting assets by one or more persons that have been entrusted with such assets. The persons ...
The legislature of Florida has also codified the Williams Rule in Florida Statute section 90.404(2)(a). [2] The federal analogue to Florida's Williams Rule is codified under rules 404(a)(2) and 404(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Evidence. [3] In Akers v.
A Florida defense lawyer was busted for allegedly smuggling legal documents soaked in the wild synthetic marijuana known as K2 into jail so inmates could get stoned, officials said.
A Florida couple is facing child abuse charges after local authorities say the man beat a child for nearly half an hour and his wife failed to help the boy. The incident happened on Dec. 7 in ...
A CNBC analysis of records compiled by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Division showed a total of 811 engine thefts in 2016 compared with 643 in 2015. About half the stolen engines were ...
A forcible felony, in the criminal law of various US states, is a felony that is subject to special penalties because it involves the use or threat of physical force. Forcible felonies are defined by statute. Typical examples of forcible felonies include murder, arson, rape, kidnapping, and armed robbery. [1]
On June 26, 2020, Karen Garner, a 73-year-old woman with dementia and sensory aphasia, left a Walmart in Loveland, Colorado, allegedly without paying for cleaning supplies, a T-shirt, candy, and soda worth $13.88. [1] [2] [3] Walmart employees followed Garner outside, took back the items, [4] and refused to allow her to pay for them.