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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…

Florida is set to become the first state in the country to change the way criminal defense works when a “Stand Your Ground” law is invoked by a defendant. Right now, if a defendant claims that he or she killed someone in self-defense, the burden rests on that defendant to make his or her case….