Important Links
As a Miami criminal attorney, and a Broward criminal attorney, I believe that the most important thing available to a client is information. Now, a good criminal defense attorney should be in constant contact with his or her clients, updating them on their cases. However, anybody accused of a crime, or anybody who knows someone accused of a crime, should be able to access information themselves. In this age of information, here are some helpful websites that may be able to answer your questions.
1. The Miami-Dade County Clerk's Office utilizes a Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) that will allow the public to look up case information based on either the case number, the jail number, or the accused person's name and date of birth. You can look up
felonies and
misdemeanors for Miami-Dade County using this website:
http://www2.miami-dadeclerk.com/cjis/.
6. For appellate matters in Broward County and Palm Beach County, check out the 4th District Court of Appeal's website at:
http://www.4dca.org/.
9. This is the website for the Florida Bar. If you need to look up information on a particular attorney, this is where you can search:
http://www.floridabar.org/.
As you can see, there is information at your fingertips. However, if you can view this information, so can the public. This is why it is so important to expunge or seal your record. Call a Miami Expungement Attorney to discuss how to destroy your criminal record so that the public cannot find it using any one of these databases.