Former Prosecutors. Experienced Trial Attorneys.
An arrest, accusation, or criminal investigation can place your freedom, reputation, work, and family under immediate pressure. Mark Miller and Rick Jacobs bring former-prosecutor insight and extensive courtroom experience to every defense they handle.
Pompano Beach headquarters. Representing people facing criminal investigations and charges in Broward County, South Florida, and throughout Florida where the firm accepts representation.
50+
Years of Combined Legal Experience
230+
Jury Trials to Verdict Across Their Careers
Since 1995
Both Attorneys Admitted to The Florida Bar
One Team
Two Former Prosecutors Directly Involved
Start With What Is Happening Now
People often reach a defense lawyer before formal charges are filed, immediately after an arrest, or when a court date, warrant, injunction, or probation issue appears. The first conversation should identify what is happening, what deadlines may exist, and what should not be done without legal advice.
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You do not have to guess whether an interview will help or hurt. Counsel can first learn why contact is being requested and advise you before any statement is made.
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Release conditions, first appearance, evidence preservation, and early communication can matter before the full case has taken shape.
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A lawyer can help confirm the situation, explain realistic options, and prepare for the next procedural step instead of leaving you to react without a plan.
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A notice may look less serious than an arrest, but it can still begin a criminal case with deadlines, court obligations, and lasting consequences.
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Criminal accusations and civil injunction proceedings can move quickly and affect contact, housing, firearms, employment, and family relationships.
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Probation matters can involve different procedures and immediate custody concerns. The alleged violation and the underlying case both need careful review.
A Defense Built Around the Person
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A criminal case is rarely just a case number. It can affect your freedom, your family, your work, and the way people see you. Our job is to slow the situation down, examine the evidence, explain the choices, and prepare the defense for whatever comes next.
How Miller & Jacobs Approaches Defense
The charging document tells you what the government alleges. It does not resolve what happened, whether the evidence was lawfully obtained, whether witnesses are reliable, or whether every element can be proven. Those questions shape the defense.
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Identify court dates, custody issues, release conditions, investigative contact, and evidence that may need to be preserved.
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Review reports, statements, video, digital records, searches, testing, identification procedures, and witness accounts.
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Clients should understand the charge, possible consequences, procedural options, and tradeoffs before making important decisions.
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Negotiation is strongest when the defense is also prepared to litigate disputed issues and try the case when necessary.
Criminal Defense Services
This hub introduces the firm’s principal criminal-defense categories. Each completed child page will address the charge, the Florida law, the immediate questions people face, and the evidence or procedure that may matter.
DUI, refusal and license issues, reckless driving, hit and run, suspended-license cases, and other criminal driving allegations.
Domestic battery, stalking, violation of injunction allegations, no-contact issues, and defense in related injunction proceedings.
Simple and aggravated assault or battery, robbery, resisting allegations, and other accusations involving force or threatened force.
Possession, intent to sell, trafficking, prescription allegations, cannabis cases, searches, controlled buys, and forensic-testing issues.
Petit theft, grand theft, burglary, robbery, criminal mischief, dealing in stolen property, and related property allegations.
Fraud, identity-related allegations, financial crimes, organized schemes, public-benefit cases, and document or electronic-record disputes.
Possession allegations, prohibited-person issues, carrying offenses, use of a weapon, enhancement questions, and self-defense-related facts.
Serious accusations requiring immediate confidentiality, careful evidence review, digital analysis, witness evaluation, and disciplined preparation.
Arrest warrants, surrender planning, first appearance, bond questions, law-enforcement contact, and investigations before charges are filed.
Technical violations, new-law violations, warrant and custody concerns, contested hearings, and issues connected to the original sentence.
Juvenile cases, federal investigations, homicide allegations, and other serious matters requiring experienced, focused trial preparation.
Sealing and expungement eligibility, appellate review, post-conviction questions, and other relief the firm agrees to evaluate.
Before you make a statement, miss a deadline, or assume the evidence cannot be challenged, discuss what happened with the attorneys who may handle the defense.
What the Defense May Need to Test
A criminal case can turn on details that are easy to overlook when attention is focused only on the charge. Miller & Jacobs evaluates how the investigation developed, what the evidence actually shows, what is missing, and whether the government can prove every required element with admissible evidence.
Direct Partner Involvement
Criminal-defense matters are handled by Mark Miller or Rick S. Jacobs, not passed to a junior lawyer. The responsible attorney brings former-prosecutor experience, decades in courtrooms, and direct communication with the client.
Former Prosecutor | Trial Attorney
Mark began his career in a prosecutor’s office and has tried more than 70 jury cases to verdict across his legal career. His role in a defense includes evaluating the evidence, identifying the issues that matter, and preparing the case for the path ahead.
Admitted to The Florida Bar in 1995
Former Assistant State Attorney
More than 70 reported jury trials to verdict
Former Prosecutor | Trial Attorney
Rick served as a prosecutor in Miami and has tried more than 160 jury cases to verdict across his legal career. He brings extensive courtroom judgment to the analysis of risk, evidence, negotiation, motions, and trial preparation.
Admitted to The Florida Bar in 1995
Former Assistant State Attorney
More than 160 reported jury trials to verdict
The client is not handed off to an unknown criminal-defense department. Representation is provided by Mark Miller or Rick S. Jacobs, while appropriate staff and outside professionals may assist with investigation, records, experts, scheduling, and case support when needed.
What Working With the Firm Can Look Like
Every criminal matter is different. The order and availability of these steps depend on the charge, court, evidence, and stage of the case, but clients should understand what the defense is doing and why.
Start With a Confidential Review →Discuss what happened, what law enforcement has done, what documents you received, and what deadlines or immediate risks may exist.
Address contact with investigators, court appearances, custody or bond issues, preservation of evidence, witnesses, and conditions that affect daily life.
Obtain and review the government’s evidence, investigate disputed facts, examine records and video, and identify legal or factual weaknesses.
Evaluate negotiation, diversion or alternative outcomes when available, evidentiary motions, defenses, sentencing exposure, and the costs and benefits of each path.
Develop the theory of defense, prepare witnesses and exhibits, litigate disputed issues, and prepare to present the case to a judge or jury.
Pompano Beach Headquarters
Miller & Jacobs is headquartered on South Federal Highway in Pompano Beach. From this office, Mark Miller and Rick Jacobs evaluate criminal investigations and charges arising in Broward County, South Florida, and other Florida matters the firm agrees to accept.
1600 S. Federal Highway, Suite 1101
Pompano Beach, FL 33062
A Confidential Place to Begin
A conversation can help identify immediate deadlines, court dates, investigative contact, custody concerns, or evidence that may need to be preserved.
Questions People Ask Before Calling
These general answers are not a substitute for advice about a specific case. Criminal deadlines, court procedures, and available options depend on the facts and current Florida law.
Do not assume an interview is informal or harmless. A lawyer can first determine why officers or investigators want to speak with you, whether you are a witness or potential suspect, and whether any response should be made. You generally should not lie, destroy evidence, or obstruct an investigation.
Potentially. Pre-filing representation may involve communicating with investigators, preserving evidence, gathering records, locating witnesses, addressing a warrant, or presenting information through appropriate legal channels. Whether any step is useful depends on the circumstances.
The process may include booking, a first appearance, a bond or release decision, formal charging, arraignment, discovery, motion practice, negotiations, and trial preparation. Felony and misdemeanor matters proceed in different court divisions, and the sequence can vary.
Florida classifies offenses by degree and potential punishment. Felonies generally carry the possibility of state-prison sentences, while misdemeanors are generally punishable by county-jail time and other penalties. Enhancements, prior records, and the specific statute can materially change exposure.
Once law enforcement and prosecutors become involved, the decision whether to file or continue a criminal case is generally not controlled solely by the reporting person. Their statements, wishes, credibility, available evidence, and later testimony may still matter.
No. Eligibility depends on the disposition, the offense, prior history, and statutory requirements. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement certificate process is typically an early step, but a certificate does not itself guarantee that a court will grant relief.
As early as reasonably possible when there is an arrest, requested interview, warrant, court date, injunction, probation allegation, or active investigation. Early advice may help prevent avoidable statements, missed deadlines, or lost evidence.
Bring or securely send any citation, charging document, bond paperwork, court notice, injunction papers, probation documents, police contact information, relevant messages, photographs, video, and a written timeline. Do not alter, delete, post, or distribute potential evidence.
