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Lake County, Florida attorney Bruce Duncan surrendered Friday to jail authorities after the Florida Highway Patrol charged him with DUI-manslaughter in the traffic death of a retired postal worker after a October 17, 2009 accident.  Duncan, 46, is President of the Leesburg land development company, Family Dynamics.  Prior to his current position, Duncan was previously employed as an Assistant Public Defender in Lake County.

Duncan has been a visible community booster. He is chairman of the executive board of Life Stream Behavioral Center, which provides mental-health and substance-abuse services for Lake and Sumter counties, according to the agency’s Web site.

FHP Sgt. Kim Montes said Duncan – who was returning home from Gainesville after attending the Florida Gator football game against Arkansas – had a half-empty bottle of vodka in an ice chest on the truck seat.  Montes said troopers drew blood from Duncan at the crash scene that measured his blood-alcohol content at 0.16 percent, double the state’s threshold at which a motorist is presumed to be impaired by alcohol.

In an affidavit, FHP traffic-homicide investigators cited Duncan’s blood-alcohol level, his unsteady appearance at the crash scene and statements by motorists who observed his driving pattern before the crash.

Terms of his pretrial release forbid Duncan to drink or drive, said Bill Gladson, division chief for the State Attorney’s Office in Lake County. After his arrest, Duncan was released after posting $50,000 bail.  A court date has not been set.

If you have been arrested or charged with a DUI in Orlando and are facing criminal prosecution in either Orange County, Seminole County, Florida, or if you have had your driver license suspended for a DUI, contact the attorneys at Tilden Law for an initial and confidential consultation, 407-599-1234.

Trooper Paul C. Lawence has been accused of attempting to artificially increase the number of citations issued to his credit by issuing several hundred bogus tickets.  Lawrence, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper based in South Florida has been arrested on charges of official misconduct, after authorities said he wrote hundreds of fake citations to drivers.  The official esimate is more than 200 traffic tickets have been issued since November have been by Lewis.  South Florida Courts have been dismissing these tickets but believe there may be more.

Authorities grew suspicious when the ticketed motorists began complaining they knew nothing about the citations. Prosecutors said Lawrence had used information from drivers he previously stopped to draft new tickets.  Believing there may be more victims, FHP has created a hotline.  Those who believe they received a false citation from Lawrence can call 305-470-2525.

It has long been speculated that law enforcement agencies have monthy and annual “ticket quotas”.   A spokesman for the FHP said they don’t operate on a quota system.

If you have been arrested or charged with a crime in Orlando or are facing criminal prosecution in either Orange County, Seminole County, Florida,  contact the experienced attorneys at TILDEN LAW for a free initial and confidential consultation, 407-599-1234.

A few weeks ago, Tilden Law was contacted by a client who had been arrested in Orlando on a DUI charge that resulted in her driver license being suspended for refusing to take the breath test.  According to the police report, our client was accused of weaving within her own lane of travel and with having a tail light out.  Once stopped by police, the officer noted a smell of alcohol and requested she participate in Field Sobriety Exercises.  As a result of her performance, the officer arrested and charged our client with DUI.  At the breath testing facility, our client refused to provide a breath sample after being read implied consent.  The result of her refusal was a one (1) year driver license suspension. 

Attorney, N. Fleetwood Tilden, filed for a Formal Review Hearing on behalf of our client to challenge the suspension of her license.  At the hearing, Mr. Tilden cross examined the arresting officer and determined that several errors were made in both the preparation and filing of the documents by the officer.  Mr. Tilden motioned the hearing officer to invalidate the suspension of our client’s driver license which was granted.  As a result, our client now has her full driver license reinstated without cost or penalty.

If you have been arrested or charged with a DUI in Orlando and are facing criminal prosecution in either Orange County, Seminole County, Florida, or if you have had your driver license suspended for a DUI, contact the attorneys at Tilden Law for an initial and confidential consultation, 407-599-1234.

A domestic battery case against porn star and aspiring U.S. Senate candidate Stormy Daniels was dropped after the alleged victim, her husband, decided not to prosecute. The State Attorney’s Office said, Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Gregory Clifford, was arrested in July after her husband told Tampa police that she hit him several times during a dispute about laundry and unpaid bills. Pam Bondi, a prosecution spokeswoman in Hillsborough County, said prosecutors could not determine who the aggressor was. There were no visible injuries. “He did not want to prosecute,” Bondi said.

If you have been accused of Domestic Violence in Orlando, Seminole County or Orange County, Florida, call the experienced domestic violence attorney’s at Tilden Law for you free initial consultation at 407-599-1234.

Captain Mike Rolls of the Marion County Sheriff’s department couldn’t believe his eyes in the early morning hours of September 15, 2009.  Rolls was on patrol traveling eastbound on State Road 200 near Interstate 75 when he saw the strange sight driving westbound toward the interstate’s northbound on-ramp.  A motorcyclist who just passed him wasn’t wearing any clothes.

The driver, Dante J. Krauss, 45, of Dunnellon, whose arrest record includes four prior DUI convictions and a 10 year driver license revocation, bonded out of the Marion County Jail later the same day.  According to the arrest report, Krauss admitted to drinking and stated that the last thing he remembered was going to Hooters.

Krauss was given a shirt, courtesy of a nearby hotel, and his lower body was covered with a shawl that had been on the handlebars of the motorcycle.

A field sobriety exercise was performed, and Krauss reportedly failed, at which time he was taken to the Marion County Jail. During a breath test, he reportedly registered a blood-alcohol content of 0.178 and 0.162. The state’s legal limit is 0.08.

If you have been arrested and charged with a DUI in Orange County or Seminole County, Florida, contact the DUI defense firm of Tilden Law for a free case evaluation.

Thirteen people whose drivers license were suspended or revoked were arrested after they drove away fromcourt in Delray Beach, Florida.  Florida Highway Patrol troopers stopped the thirteen individuals shortly after they left the parking lot of the courthouse knowing that each had lost their driving privileges. 

Undercover officers in plain cloths attended the court session in which a judge had suspended these indivisuals drivers licenses and warned each of them not to drive until their driver license had been reinstated.   After observing the violators drive off, uniformed troopers were notified and the individuals stopped and arrested.

The crackdown is part of a statewide sting operation by the Florida Highway Patrol targeting those who drive to and from court proceedings despite having their drivers license suspended. 

If you have been arrested for driving on a suspended license and are facing criminal prosecution in either Orange County or Seminole County court, please contact the defense firm of Tilden Law for a free case evaluation, 407-599-1234.

A judge sentenced Chris Brown to five years probation and six months community labor for the beating of Rihanna an issued a stern admonition to the singer.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg told brown he could be sent to state prison if he violated any term of his sentence, including an order to stay away from the pop star for the next five years.

Brown will serve his sentence in his home state of Virginia. The judge says she wanted to ensure that Brown, 20, performs physical labor instead of community service, such as mentoring young people. A felony charge of making criminal threats was dropped. Rihanna did not attend the sentencing.

If you have been accused of Domestic Violence in Orange County or Seminole County, Florida, contact the experienced criminal defense attorney’s at Tilden Law for your free initial consultation at 407-599-1234.