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The Supreme Court ruled today that people convicted of raping a child could not be executed. By voting 5-4, the Court said the Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in child rape cases violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

In the United States, no one has been executed for a crime that did not involve someone else’s death in 44 years. The Supreme Court banned executions for rape in 1977 in case in which the victim was an adult woman.

At the current time, 45 states ban the death penalty for any kind of rape. The other five states allow it for child rape. Montana, South Carolina, Texas, and Oklahoma permit executions if the defendant has already been convicted of raping a child.

If you have been charged with a criminal offense in the state of Florida, you need an aggressive, compassionate criminal defense team on your side. Please contact The Umansky Law Firm today to schedule your confidential consultation.

A convicted ax murderer was in court Monday asking the judge to throw out his conviction and death sentence. The 48-year-old is challenging one of the most compelling pieces of evidence presented against him: a palm print wrongly linked to him by a now-discredited fingerprint expert.

The man has been convicted of killing a 71-year-old Oviedo resident as he stepped out of his car in March of 2000. The ax the killer used came from a cabinet in the victim’s garage. A fingerprint expert at the time testified that a bloody palm print at the scene belonged to the convicted man, but the print was later re-analyzed last year by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and a defense expert who both concluded it could not be matched to the convicted man. The initial fingerprint "expert" has since been fired because FDLE found eight other mistakes she made.

Defense attorneys claim the man’s conviction should be overturned for a variety of reasons including the fingerprint mistake, several errors made by his trial lawyers, and because he was high on cocaine at the time of the alleged attack. Florida law allows judges and juries to be more lenient with defendants who commit crimes while intoxicated by drugs and alcohol.

If you have found yourself charged with a serious crime in the state of Florida, please contact the attorneys at The Umansky Law Firm today to schedule your private consultation.

Police reports indicate that six pharmacies in Orange and Seminole Counties have been robbed in the past month. While 24-hour pharmacies provide convenience to the customer who needs something in the middle of night, these stores also provide armed robbers good opportunities for successful robberies. In some cases, employees were forced into coolers at gunpoint and were robbed. Suspects in these crimes have robbed customers, employees, and looted the stores’ cash registers before fleeing.

No one has been arrested in these crimes yet.

The drugstore giants are not cutting their hours; instead, their increasing their security and hoping that police will catch the robbers.

CVS and Walgreens have more than forty pharmacies in the Orlando area that stay open 24 hours.

If you have been charged with a crime in Orlando, Winter Park or anywhere in Central Florida, please contact the lawyers at The Umansky Law Firm today to schedule your confidential consultation.

If you or someone you know has been arrested and charged with a misdemeanor or felony in the state of Florida, you (or your loved one) is facing a serious problem. Depending on the specifics of the charges, prison sentences and other penalties can be quite serious.

If you are a first-time offender, the thought of going to jail or prison is terrifying. For this reason, you must secure a competent, experienced, passionate criminal defense attorney like the ones at The Umansky Law Firm in Orlando, Florida.

Our attorneys, Bill Umansky, Zahra Umansky, and Gary Schwartz, have an extremely successful track record defending Floridians against criminal charges from traffic violations to serious drug charges. We come from diverse backgrounds, which is just one of the many factors that contributes to our litigation success.

As former prosecutors and legal advisers for police departments, we offer our clients a unique perspective. We know both sides of the law; not many criminal defense attorneys can claim that. We know the various tactics prosecutors will use to put you in jail, and we will work tirelessly to defend you. We are compassionate, and we are aggressive.

If you have been charged with a crime in Orlando, Winter Park, or surrounding areas of Florida, please contact The Umansky Law Firm today to schedule your initial confidential consultation.

A fourteen-year-old boy in Central Florida watched his parents literally fight to death. The boy called 911 from his home in Oviedo Thursday night after a fight between h is parents escalated into a gunfight.

By the time police arrived at the scene, both of his parents were dead. The bodies of the parents were in the yard when investigators arrived at the house. The couple’s son was put in the care of child protective services while they try to find out-of-state relatives to take care of him.

Both parents were emergency room workers at a local hospital.

If you have found yourself on the wrong side of the law in Orlando or anywhere in Florida, please contact the criminal defense attorneys at The Umansky Law Firm today.

A car driven by a drunk driver in Monterrey, Mexico crashed into a weekend bike race along a highway near the border, killing one man and injuring ten other people. The 28-year-old driver apparently fell asleep at the wheel; he is charged with killing a thirty seven year old man.

According to authorities, the crash happened just 15 minutes into the 21 mile race. The driver of the caris an American citizen living in Brownsville, Texas, but the United States Consulate could not confirm that.

If you have been charged with DUI in Orlando or anywhere in Florida, please contact The Umansky Law Firm today to schedule your confidential consultation.

Earlier today, a 56-year-old Winter Haven woman was killed in a hit and run crash in Polk County. The woman was hit between five and six a.m. on her way to an herbal healer. The fatal crash occurred on 1st West in Wahneta, on the outskirts of Winter Haven. A passerby found the woman when a wheelchair was spotted alongside of the road. The woman was wheelchair-bound, however, but was either walking behind the chair or riding in it when she was hit.

Deputies are currently looking for a vehicle that has front end damage. If you have information pertaining to this case, please contact the authorities in your area.

Often times, people panic after a car accident, especially when they are at fault and someone is hurt or killed. If you have found yourself charged with a serious moving violation such as hit and run or vehicular homicide, we can help.

The experienced vehicle accident criminal defense attorneys at The Umansky Law Firm in Orlando have represented people just like you who made a very bad decision and now face serious jail time. Please contact our office today if you are facing criminal charges related to a moving violation.

New York City police arrested actress Tatum O’Neal near her Manhattan home last night after purchasing crack cocaine at around 7:30 p.m. The 44-year-old actress and daughter of actor Ryan O’Neal has been charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance.

O’Neal is perhaps best known for being the youngest actor to ever win an Oscar for her role in the 1973 hit “Paper Moon” in which she starred with her father. She recently wrote about her drug addiction in her memoir, “A Paper Life.”

If you have been arrested on a drug charge in the Orlando area or anywhere in Florida, please contact The Umansky Law Firm today to schedule your confidential consultation.