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A lot of people arrested on charges of domestic violence suddenly find themselves facing something even more serious: charges of kidnapping. How does one turn into the other? Under Florida’s laws, kidnapping is defined as holding someone against his or her will, without legal authority to do so, through force, threats, abduction or imprisonment. In…

If you’ve been charged with domestic violence, you may feel like it’s simply a case of your word against that of your alleged victim — especially if the responding officers arrested you without giving you much of a chance to explain your side. Your defense attorney probably has an entirely different perspective, however, and sees…

Does a domestic batterer ever deserve sympathy? That’s a hard question to ask and a harder one to answer — but attorneys who advocate for the rights of those charged with domestic violence often ask the court to look on a batterer with both sympathy and compassion — and to translate those feelings into a…