Felony Charge Defense

Being charged with a Felony Crime is a serious event that requires serious representation. The fines, penalties, and impact that a felony conviction may have on a person’s life could be significant. A felony conviction may affect a person’s future goals and opportunities for employment, housing, education, financial assistance or loans, and a whole host of other everyday situations that we often take for granted.

Being charged with a Felony Crime is a serious event that requires serious representation. The fines, penalties, and impact that a felony conviction may have on a person’s life could be significant. A felony conviction may affect a person’s future goals and opportunities for employment, housing, education, financial assistance or loans, and a whole host of other everyday situations that we often take for granted.

If you are already licensed in a particular discipline or profession, a felony conviction could result in a “character and fitness” review, jeopardizing a convicted felon’s ability to continue to work in his/her chosen field of occupation.

In the State of Florida the degrees of felony crimes include:

• 3rd degree felony: punishable by up to a $5,000 fine, five (5) years prison and/or probation
• 2nd degree felony: punishable by up to a $10,000 fine, fifteen (15) years prison and/or probation
• 1st degree felony: punishable by up to $15,000 fine, thirty (30) years prison and/or probation.

Felony charges may include, but are not limited to:

• Aggravated Battery (with a deadly weapon or serious bodily injury, or to an elderly person or pregnant woman)
• Aggravated Fleeing to Elude
• Child Abuse
• Computer crimes (larceny of money or intellectual property or possession of pornographic, lewd, and lascivious material.)
• Drug Crimes
• Felony Battery