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End to waiting periods among sweeping changes proposed for Florida’s clemency process Dara Kam, Senior reporter, News Service of Florida Published:  Updated:  Tags:  Supporters of restoring Florida felons' voting rights march to an early voting precinct, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition led marches to the polls in dozens of Florida counties. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing sweeping changes to the state’s clemency process b...

The Florida First District recently rendered Mobley v. Fussell, 1D19-4286, regarding the intriguing topic of whether a court clerk might charge someone for copies of public records. Please do not tune out just yet, as the analysis delves far deeper than the seeming banality of copy costs, and is actually a somewhat intriguing and educational expose of the process of statutory analysis. As an aside, this matter came to the Court as a "mandamus petition." Mandamus is one of the extraordinary writs that are exceptions to the general rule that appellate courts address allegations of error most o...

The U.S. Constitution does not explicitly say whether a sitting president can pardon himself for potential criminal liabilities.

Amanda Brumfield, released from prison this fall in a deal with prosecutors, spoke publicly Tuesday for the first time about her case, about how she no longer trusts the criminal justice system and how she wants to help other women unjustly in prison. She was sentenced to 20 years for manslaughter in the death of her best friend's baby in 2011, a conviction that Innocence Project of Florida attorneys argued was based on "junk science."

Department of Justice (DoJ) (MANILA BULLETIN) DOJ Undersecretary Emmeline Aglipay-Villar presented DOJ records which showed that from January to November 2020 there have been a total of 1,334 PDLs who were pardoned and granted parole. This is much higher to the 988 PDLs who were pardoned and granted parole in 2019. DOJ records showed that there was one PDL who was granted absolute pardon and 1,333 who received parole. It can be recalled that President Duterte gave absolute pardon in September last year to United States Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton who was convicted in 2015 fo...