Jacksonville Criminal Attorney Blog

When you are arrested for either a felony or misdemeanor in Jacksonville, Duval County, Clay County, or Nassau County, you may be qualified for the Pretrial Intervention Program. If you have little or no criminal record, your chances of being picked for this program go up. You sign a contract to be placed on a kind of "probation". During that time, your criminal charges will not be filed. You will agree to either pay some amount of money, perform community service, or other duty. If you complete your end of the bargain, the state attorney will drop your criminal charges.

It is very important to contact a criminal defense lawyer as soon as possible after you are arrested on criminal charges in Jacksonville to look at the possibility of being placed in this program. Contact our Criminal Defense Attorneys in Jacksonville at (904) 634-0900. You will speak to a lawyer 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Disorderly Conduct and Disorderly Intoxication are crimes in Florida. To be arrested for Disorderly Intoxication, you have to be intoxicated and endanger the safety of another person or cause a public disturbance. Just smelling like alcohol and acting intoxicated is not enough to convict you on a charge of Disorderly Intoxication. You have to also create a public disturbance or endanger the public. Also, if you are on your own property, that is not a "public" place for purposes of this law.

Disorderly Conduct requires you to engage in conduct that corrupted the public morals, outraged the sense of public decency, affected the peace and quiet of people, or amounted to fighting or brawling. Cursing at police officers does not constitute Disorderly Conduct. Also, if no crowd had gathered in response to your conduct or if a crowd gathered, your comments were directed at the police and not meant to incite the crowd, you have not committed the crime of Disorderly Conduct.

If you have any questions about criminal charges, please contact our Jacksonville Criminal Defense Attorneys at (904) 634-0900.