A man charged with second-degree murder is the death of a party host was convicted of a lesser charge this month. Jurors instead chose to find the defendant guilty of manslaughter for hitting a man with a baseball bat during an argument, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union.…
A 13-year-old boy was charged as an adult this month in the murder of one man and the attempted murder of a second person. Police said the boy and two others, and 18-year-old and a 17-year-old, met two men at a Jacksonville gas station to exchange guns, according to a…
Prosecutors announced this month that they have charged a 15-year-old boy with first-degree murder in the killing of a store clerk. The boy is accused of demanding money from a convenience store clerk and then shooting him when the clerk wasn’t moving fast enough, according to a report in the…
State prosecutors dropped the first-degree murder charges against a woman inside a home where two people were killed when police raided the suspected meth lab. Instead, the woman pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder, one for the detective who was shot and the other for the man who…
A Jacksonville man convicted of killing a firefighter’s wife will spend the rest of his life in prison. The man was facing the possibility of the death penalty, but the judge issued the life sentence last week, according to a report in the Florida Times-Union. The man was convicted in…
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case next year that could drastically change how the death penalty is handed down in Florida. The case could also result in more than 60 people from Northeast Florida on Death Row having their sentence reevaluated, according to a report in the Florida…
Jacksonville police have opened an investigation into a Jacksonville man accused of throwing a cup of liquid at another car during an apparent argument. This is probably something that happens daily on roads across Jacksonville, but there’s one reason this one has bubbled up to earn media attention: It was…
A man who was a teenager at the time he was arrested on murder and other charges, pleaded guilty this month and avoided a potential life sentence. The man, now 21, pleaded guilty in connection with the shooting death of an 18-year-old man in 2013, according to a report in…
The state Supreme Court this month tossed out a 70-year sentence given to a Jacksonville boy who was 14 at the time he committed an armed robbery. The defendant, now 20, will have to be resentenced, as will likely hundreds of defendants across the state who received similar lengthy sentences,…
Two juries in the same courtroom came to different conclusions in the cases of two men charged with first-degree murder in what police described as a drug-related killing. One man was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder for his role in the death of two Jacksonville brothers who were…