A Hernando County judge denied Barbara Diffendal’s motion to reduce her 13-year prison sentence for DUI manslaughter earlier this week. Diffendal accepted a plea agreement this summer but, shortly after arriving at the state prison in Ocala, she reconsidered and... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: Vehicular CrimesA Pasco County jury took just minutes to deliberate and then acquit Robert Corbin of driving under the influence. Back in March, Pasco deputies were dispatched to a storage center to diffuse a fight between Corbin and his girlfriend. When... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: Vehicular CrimesLuis Gonzales-Ines of Plant City was sentenced to 25 years in prison in a Hillsborough County courtroom last week for a drunk-driving collision which killed a motorcyclist on I-4 in May 2008. Gonzalez-Ines was convicted by a jury last month... [Read More]
Unsurprisingly, Hillsborough County prosecutors have agreed to dismiss a DUI charge against Tampa morning news anchor Russell Rhodes. In exchange, Rhodes will plead no contest to misdemeanor obstruction of justice charges later this week. Rhodes’ DUI defense attorney negotiated the... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: Vehicular CrimesBack in January, Channel 13 morning news anchor Russell Rhodes was arrested for obstruction of justice. Prosecutors claim Rhodes was driving recklessly through a parking garage when an off-duty Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputy stopped his car. The deputy tried to... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: Vehicular CrimesKenneth Delmar Stewart pleaded guilty to five counts of DUI manslaughter and two counts of DUI with serious bodily injury this week in Hillsborough County Circuit Court. Stewart’s sentencing is scheduled for July 17 but his plea agreement with prosecutors... [Read More]
A senior judge in Pasco County sentenced Charlton Oliver Jr. to 15 years in prison for the DUI manslaughter of Shelly Bingham this week. Fathers of three deceased young people were allowed to speak at the sentencing hearing. Twenty-three-year-old Christian... [Read More]
A Pinellas County jury found Lonnie Booth guilty of DUI manslaughter this week. Booth was charged after the November 2005 death of Rose Mitrano on Roosevelt Boulevard. Booth was also found guilty of driving with a license that had been... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: Vehicular CrimesPolice in Pasco County made an interesting DUI arrest in New Port Richey this week. At about 2 a.m. on Thursday, an officer heard repeated honking from a parked car outside an auto body shop. The officer assumed it was... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: Vehicular CrimesFormer Tampa Bay Storm arena football player Darion Conner was found guilty yesterday in a Tampa court of DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide. Conner’s SUV collided with bicyclist Jonathan Conklin in September 2004. Conklin died of his injuries. Hillsborough County... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: Vehicular CrimesHillsborough County FL prosecutors dropped DUI-manslaughter charges this week in a case that killed a Gibsonton, FL motorcyclist in November 2007. Jeffrey Freson of Deltona, FL had been facing up to 15 years in prison if convicted. Freson was charged... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: Vehicular CrimesManatee County Judge Doug Henderson threw out evidence gathered at a DUI checkpoint in March, 2008 at a hearing last month. Defense attorneys argued that the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office failed to follow their own guidelines in conducting the checkpoint. ... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: Vehicular CrimesAfter three years of court battles, hundreds of DUI cases in Manatee and Sarasota Counties are now free to proceed. Some cases will certainly be tried, others dismissed. The results of breath tests taken by a machine called the Intoxilyzer... [Read More]
Locations: Florida
Criminal Charges: Vehicular Crimes
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