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In the United States, drug courts are specialized court docket programs that aim to help participants recover from substance use disorder to reduce future criminal activity. Drug courts are used as an alternative to incarceration and aim to reduce the costs of repeatedly processing low‐level, non‐violent offenders through courts, jails, and ...
The first Drug court in the United States took shape in Miami-Dade County, Florida in 1989 as a response to the growing crack-cocaine usage in the city. Chief Judge Gerald Wetherington, Judge Herbert Klein, then State Attorney Janet Reno and Public Defender Bennett Brummer designed the court for nonviolent offenders to receive treatment.
Medical law. Drug courts are problem-solving courts that take a public health approach to criminal offending using a specialized model in which the judiciary, prosecution, defense bar, probation, law enforcement, mental health, social service, and treatment communities work together to help addicted offenders into long-term recovery.
Bizarro: The Surreal Saga of America's Secret War on Synthetic Drugs and the Florida Kingpins It Captured, by Jordan S. Rubin, University of California Press, 278 pages, $27.95 For the average ...
Headquarters of the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee. State courts of Florida. Florida Supreme Court [76] District courts of appeal (6 districts) [77] Circuit courts (20 judicial circuits) [78] County courts (67 courts, one for each county) [79] Federal courts located in Florida. United States District Court for the Northern District of ...
Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case which resulted in the decision that police use of a trained detection dog to sniff for narcotics on the front porch of a private home is a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and therefore, without consent, requires both probable cause and a search warrant.
Marchman Act. The Marchman Act, officially the " Hal S. Marchman Alcohol and Other Drug Services Act of 1993 ", is a Florida law that provides a means of involuntary and voluntary assessment and stabilization and treatment of a person allegedly abusing alcohol or drugs. [1]
The Florida State Courts System consists of: The Florida State Supreme Court; Six District Courts of Appeal, which are the state's intermediate appellate courts; 20 circuit courts, which handle civil cases involving more than $50,000 and criminal felony cases; and. 67 county courts (one for each of Florida's 67 counties), which handle civil ...