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Finger guns, the kind you make with your first two fingers and your thumb, are generally the sort of thing that you would expect only grade-school kids to take seriously — unless you happen to point one at an officer of the law and make a little threat while you’re doing it. In that case,…

It took jurors only 30 minutes to convict a Florida man of murdering a security guard. It may take them a lot longer to decide what the punishment for that crime should be, however, because this is the first Miami jury to deliberate under Florida’s new death-penalty laws. Prior to the recent changes, Florida only…

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…