David Edelstein is an AV® Peer Review Rated criminal defense attorney
representing clients in state and federal criminal matters across the State of Florida.

When are friends not really friends? Perhaps on Facebook, the Fifth District of Texas Court of Appeals recently ruled, in a matter involving a judge’s social media contacts and perceived biases. The appeal was brought by William Scott Youkers, who pleaded guilty to assaulting his girlfriend and later had a.. Read more..

It isn’t just in court proceedings that depositions can be useful, a Colorado attorney says. By posting them on YouTube after his client had already lost in court, he won a secret settlement in one corporate matter, John Pineau tells the Denver Post. “This is an incredible.. Read more..

The officer had argued that the city had allowed a culture of intoxicated officers. Read more..

A Florida appeals court is throwing out convictions against two men because sheriff’s deputies discovered pot plants by looking through a mobile home window. Read more..

Former Miami Dolphins wide receiver Chad Johnson may have lost Dancing with the Stars, but he may now be dancing his way to jail. The Broward Sheriff’s office on Thursday announced that they had issued an arrest warrant for the trouble-prone one-time twinkle-toes for skipping out on his probation and a court-ordered domestic violence counseling [...]

In the cold of February, as New York City police officers gathered for their daily orders at roll call, they were given a rather unusual command, for both its timing and its substance: If they happened upon a topless woman, they were not to arrest her. Read more..

How a career con man made a fortune selling illegal pharmaceuticals online?and pulled off a federal sting that cost Google $500 million. Read more..

Attorney General Eric Holder became the White House’s highest ranking official Tuesday to support sweeping privacy protections requiring the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud. Read more..

A Miramar police captain who caught two teenagers making out in the back seat of a car went way too far to prove no crime was being committed, prosecutors told a Broward jury Tuesday. Read more..

A Broward sheriff’s deputy with a work history outside the department that includes claims of on-duty sex with prostitutes is back in uniform ? nearly five years after he was fired for asking a jailed woman for her phone number. Read more..