This week in front of the Honorable Robert Zack, the State of Florida spent an entire day prosecuting a DUI defendant whose breath test results at the time of his arrest were 0.068 and 0.064, and no evidence of drug impairment. 

The legal limit for DUI is, of course, 0.08.

Defense counsel Russell Williams reports that the jury acquitted the defendant in five minutes, but the State attorneys office openly admitted that they elected to try the case, "because the intern needed to get a trial."

So, fourteen members of the community, who were falsely told that they were doing an important civic duty, were held captive for an entire morning, so that an intern could try a case.  A Judge, a courtroom, a clerk, seven jurors, a baliff and police officer-witnesses, all needlessly spent an entire day in trial on a case where the eveidence relied upon by the state showed that the Defendant had a breath alcohol level UNDER THE LEGAL LIMIT.

The Judge had no ability to prevent this trial, neither did the defense, the clerk, the baliffs, or the jurors.  I believe that all those who spent their time participating in State of Florida v. Steven Zack this week, are entitled to an explanation as to why their time was well spent.