A West Palm Beach police officer was arrested for perjury and prostitution were he paid for sex acts at least 13 times with four different women at a Palm Beach County, massage parlor. The West Palm Beach Officer, Michael Ghent, worked the organized crime section of the West Palm Beach Police Department’s special investigation unit.
This alleged rub down or shake down artist, Michael Ghent, is also accused of snorting drugs in a parlor session room, where the girls would provide him with a happy ending. The allegations also accuse Officer Ghent of bribery, soliciting prostitution and PERJURY-WITNESS MAKE FALSE WRITTEN DECLARATION. The most troubling of all the charges, for a criminal defense attorney, is the perjury charge. It shows the Officer’s propensity to use perjured tactics to purposefully cover up a bad investigation or to illicit testimony to falsely accuse others. So, what does a criminal defendant do with this information?
Well all criminal defense lawyers and defendant’s need to check their files and figure out if Michael Ghent, of the West Palm Beach Police Department, played any role in the arrest or investigation. If Michael Ghent, of the West Palm Beach Police Department, did play a role then the case needs to be examined for witness tampering and falsification. If you have been accused of a crime and Michael Ghent, of the West Palm Beach Police Department, is mentioned in the police report, or is part of the investigation, then contact ANDREWSTINE.COM for a free consultation for help with your matter. Moreover, if Michael Ghent is currently involved in your criminal case in Palm Beach County, or with the West Palm Beach Police Department, then the Law Office of Andrew Stine would like to hear from you, as the allegations will be vigorously defended as a false allegation.
At ANDREWSTINE.COM many of your questions about being arrested in Palm Beach County and the entire State of Florida for all crimes can be answered. If the site ANDREWSTINE.COM does answer your questions, then contact the office directly and a free consultation in beautiful downtown West Palm Beach, Florida will be arranged for you.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
FLORIDA DUI LAW IN A NUTSHELL
On a regular basis, the ANDREWSTINE.COM blog receives questions and comments about what is the law in Florida regarding a DUI?
In order to help the consumer and practioner, ANDREWSTINE.COM has dedicated the following facts to a Florida DUI.
In Florida, a person is guilty of driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages, a harmful chemical substance, when the driver is affected to the extent that his or her normal faculties are impaired; or when the person has a blood alcohol level of 0.08 or more grams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood or when the person has a breath-alcohol level of 0.08 or more grams of alcohol per 210 liters of breath.
NORMAL FACULTIES
So in Florida, DUI can be proven up by the state if the normal faculties are impaired? What is that? The case law defines normal faculties as the ability to see, walk, talk, hear and so on. This is why when a driver is stopped in Florida for DUI, the police enforcement officer wants the driver to perform those silly road side tests. I can assure you that it is in my opinion that the Driver should refuse the road side tests. By performing the test, the driver only provides the law enforcement officer with video taped evidence of how the driver is performing. As an example and for fun, after you awake in the morning stand at the edge of your bed and hold one foot out in front of the other foot at about 6-12 inches from the ground with your arms extended at your sides and try to bring your hand with one finger to your nose. Now think about doing this on the edge of I-95 with traffic coming at you and behind you at 65 -85 mph. Sounding scary? Would you let you child or grandchild play such a silly game on I-95 in the middle of the night? Then why would you? Don’t perform the test!
BLOW OR NOT TO BLOW?
Should I BLOW? DON’T BLOW during a DUI stop or invetsigation! Hasn’t your mother taught you better. Never blow into that silly machine that is so outdated and lacking in the area of technology that the results are fraught with inaccuracies. What does that mean? The Intoxilizer 5000 or 8000 the machines used by most Police Agencies and Sheriff’s Offices in Florida for DUI arrest are without doubt unreliable. The machines and the software in the Intoxilizer 5000 or 8000 is ancient. I mean you remember the old Macintosh Computers of the early 1980’s, with the punch cards, well the Intoxilizer 5000 or 8000 is even more outdated than those old dinosaurs. Why would you trust your liberty to a machine with an operating system older than your first born child or oldest grandchild?
For more information see andrewstine.com
On a regular basis, the ANDREWSTINE.COM blog receives questions and comments about what is the law in Florida regarding a DUI?
In order to help the consumer and practioner, ANDREWSTINE.COM has dedicated the following facts to a Florida DUI.
In Florida, a person is guilty of driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages, a harmful chemical substance, when the driver is affected to the extent that his or her normal faculties are impaired; or when the person has a blood alcohol level of 0.08 or more grams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood or when the person has a breath-alcohol level of 0.08 or more grams of alcohol per 210 liters of breath.
NORMAL FACULTIES
So in Florida, DUI can be proven up by the state if the normal faculties are impaired? What is that? The case law defines normal faculties as the ability to see, walk, talk, hear and so on. This is why when a driver is stopped in Florida for DUI, the police enforcement officer wants the driver to perform those silly road side tests. I can assure you that it is in my opinion that the Driver should refuse the road side tests. By performing the test, the driver only provides the law enforcement officer with video taped evidence of how the driver is performing. As an example and for fun, after you awake in the morning stand at the edge of your bed and hold one foot out in front of the other foot at about 6-12 inches from the ground with your arms extended at your sides and try to bring your hand with one finger to your nose. Now think about doing this on the edge of I-95 with traffic coming at you and behind you at 65 -85 mph. Sounding scary? Would you let you child or grandchild play such a silly game on I-95 in the middle of the night? Then why would you? Don’t perform the test!
BLOW OR NOT TO BLOW?
Should I BLOW? DON’T BLOW during a DUI stop or invetsigation! Hasn’t your mother taught you better. Never blow into that silly machine that is so outdated and lacking in the area of technology that the results are fraught with inaccuracies. What does that mean? The Intoxilizer 5000 or 8000 the machines used by most Police Agencies and Sheriff’s Offices in Florida for DUI arrest are without doubt unreliable. The machines and the software in the Intoxilizer 5000 or 8000 is ancient. I mean you remember the old Macintosh Computers of the early 1980’s, with the punch cards, well the Intoxilizer 5000 or 8000 is even more outdated than those old dinosaurs. Why would you trust your liberty to a machine with an operating system older than your first born child or oldest grandchild?
For more information see andrewstine.com
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