MEDIA 11/6
SENTINEL:
Mentally Ill Inmate in Dijols:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbbloody1106nbnov06,0,933902.story
Mike Mayo: "With Jenne's sentencing looming, mysteries still abound":
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbmayocol1106nbnov06,0,3938228.column
Jenne/Bogenschutz's Objections to PSI:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/acrobat/2007-11/33644488.pdf
DAILY BUSINESS REVIEW:
Miami Courts Daycare: "Miami-Dade finds better place for children than courtroom":
http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/news.html?news_id=45633
Sealing of Court Records Under Attack Nationwide:
http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/news.html?news_id=45631
Mentally Ill Inmate in Dijols:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbbloody1106nbnov06,0,933902.story
Mike Mayo: "With Jenne's sentencing looming, mysteries still abound":
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbmayocol1106nbnov06,0,3938228.column
Jenne/Bogenschutz's Objections to PSI:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/acrobat/2007-11/33644488.pdf
DAILY BUSINESS REVIEW:
Miami Courts Daycare: "Miami-Dade finds better place for children than courtroom":
http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/news.html?news_id=45633
Sealing of Court Records Under Attack Nationwide:
http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/news.html?news_id=45631
Jenne's whole tenure as sheriff was a sham. Just the tip of the iceberg with what's going on here in Broward. Watch as they start to go down one after the other. It's a Dog's Day for some public officials here where it's time to face the music for once.
Get the transcript. The paper didn't have it. (Not enough time)
There's something missing from the article. You know, like the transcript. More to come I'll bet.
Oh man, a psycho drug dealer was delayed in getting back on the street, what a shame.
don't be so insensitive. i hope you're family never has to endure the pain of watching a loved one suffer from mental illness. this case is a tragedy.
I am not insensitive. If he has a mental illness the he should be institutionalized to deal with it, not dumped back on the street to reak havoc on the rest of us. His illness didnt seem to preclude him from dealing drugs.
Jenne rivals that crook Navarro. What's with these clowns that run our system?
how come the puppetmaster bill scherer skates again?
"Dijols said after he signed the order to release Diaz, it was his lawyer's duty to follow through with the jail."
B.S.! The person is in state custody--as much as an attorney may care about a client, they cannot insure his safety, movement, and general well-being while he/she is in custody and control of the state. The duty is on the jail to follow through with the Order.
Dijols blew this one IMHO. He is the one in charge. No buck passing.
I'm sure he's not happy this went down this way. He's new and he learned a lesson. He'll handle things differently next time.
http://www.careerbuilder.com/monk-e-mail/?mid=24266290
Reading the other blog its says this guy had been rearrested. How many times are they going to let these nutbag drug dealers roam our streets. We need more mental institutions.
Woman accused of taping judge takes deal
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/search/content/local_news/epaper/2007/11/01/m2b_breasticals_1101.html
Coffee talk with Sheriff Al
It took a while, but here’s a near-complete transcript of my Monday (October 29) interview with Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti, appointed last week by Gov. Charlie Crist to finish Ken Jenne’s term through January 2009. We spoke over espresso at the North Lauderdale district office. I edited some repetitive and extraneous material.
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/columnists/mayo/blog/2007/11/coffee_talk_with_sheriff_al.html#more
The Miami-Dade public defender's office has received a national award for its efforts on behalf of indigent defendants.
The National Legal Aid and Defender Association's Clara Shortridge Foltz Award is named after the woman considered the founder of the country's public defender system. She was also California's first female lawyer.
Miami-Dade Public Defender Bennett Brummer praised his staff for meriting the award. He said in a prepared statement: ``We received this high honor because of their commitment to high quality client service and exemplary dedication. I'm humbled by the award and feel fortunate to work with such wonderful people.''
The award will be presented Friday at the NLADA 2007 annual conference in Tucson.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/297115.html
Misinformation
By The Times-Union
For too many years, Duval County's violent crime problem has been hidden under a convenient layer of misreported crime statistics and phony comparisons.
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/110607/opi_215127916.shtml
Tickled by BA's new conservative crime-control persona. Does he still bring his hookah to parties? Do his clients know he thinks they're nutbags? Yes, BA, there's definitely a need for more mental institutions.
How about it Vic? Maybe this issue will help you get your new Taj Mahal? (beside being the decent thing to do):
"The daycare is the second of its type to open in Miami-Dade’s courts. Chief Judge Joseph P. Farina opened the first in Family Court in 1999 after getting the idea from a conference. The program served about 2,500 children in 2004-05."
"Associate Administrative Circuit Judge Bertila Soto, who spearheaded the project at both courthouses, always saw the need. As a prosecutor she would see children spend time in crowded courthouse halls waiting for their parents to finish their court appearances."
“I felt horrible that children had to watch when I was filing a charge or a sentencing,” Soto said. “I don’t think children should watch their parents testify or in shackles.”
Jack Thompson’s GDC Debate Prospects Not Looking Good
http://gamepolitics.com/2007/11/05/breaking-jack-thompson-to-debate-at-game-developers-conference/
Live at the Jack Thompson debate in Philadelphia
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/03/live-at-the-jack-thompson-debate-in-philadelphia/
http://www.newsresearch.blogspot.com/
A sticky question for newspapers
Just as the New York Times is beginning to allow comments on its stories (see public editor Clark Hoyt's column, Civil Discourse, Meet the Internet), a Miami blogger has decided that the Miami Herald should eliminate them. Here's Rick at Stuck on the Palmetto, Online Newspapers Should Just Dump The Comments:
I say get rid of the them. Period. They're not needed and are nothing but sounding boards for the racists, bigots and attention-starved idiots out there in the virtual world.
...Initially, I thought that it was a good idea, but it has become very apparent that people aren't able to act like responsible adults.
Good luck to The Times. Since comments will be moderated, at least the worst won't get through. The Herald does remove comments but the tone is often unpleasant, even with that. Is it a reflection of life in south Florida?
Civil Discourse, Meet the Internet
By CLARK HOYT
Published: November 4, 2007
NEW YORK TIMES
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/opinion/04pubed.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
WARNING: This column contains rude and objectionable language not normally found in the pages of this newspaper but seen surprisingly often on its Web site.
As The New York Times transforms itself into a multimedia news and information platform — the printed newspaper plus a robust nytimes.com offering breaking news, blogs, interactive graphics, video and more — it is struggling with a vexing problem. How does the august Times, which has long stood for dignified authority, come to terms with the fractious, democratic culture of the Internet, where readers expect to participate but sometimes do so in coarse, bullying and misinformed ways?
The answer so far is cautiously, carefully and with uneven success.
The issue is timely because last week, with very little notice, The Times took baby steps toward letting readers comment on its Web site about news articles and editorials, something scores of other newspapers have long permitted. On Tuesday, readers were invited to comment on a single article in Science Times and on the paper’s top editorial, using a link that accompanied each. Few did because there was no promotion of the change, but as the week went on and more articles were opened to comment, participation picked up.
The paper is creating a comment desk, starting with the hiring of four part-time staffers, to screen all reader submissions before posting them, an investment unheard of in today’s depressed newspaper business environment. The Times has always allowed reader comments on the many blogs it publishes, with those responses screened by the newsroom staff. That experience suggests what the paper is letting itself in for.
“I didn’t know how big it would become, and I didn’t know how tough it would be to manage,” said Jim Roberts, editor of the Web site. A particularly hot topic on a blog can generate more than 500 comments — 500, that is, that meet guidelines requiring that a comment be coherent, on point, not obscene or abusive, and not a personal attack. Though editors have mixed feelings about it, The Times has so far bowed to Web custom by allowing readers to use screen names, as long as they don’t claim to be Thomas Paine, Condi Rice or a famous porn star.
From Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the publisher, on down, executives and editors of The Times use similar language to describe their goal: they want the newspaper’s Web site to nurture a healthy, “civil discourse” on the topics of the day.
“We have two great assets,” said Jonathan Landman, the deputy managing editor who is in charge of the newsroom’s online efforts. “One is the quality of the material we produce; the other is the quality of our readers, some of the most curious, intelligent and sophisticated people on earth.” Putting the knowledge of readers together with the journalism of The Times, he said, could result in “news and information of greater power, reach and quality than even a great newsroom can produce on its own.”
That’s the lofty goal, but the real Internet world often falls far short.
Take, for example “Ray in Mexican Colony of LA,” who recently managed to get a comment posted on one blog, The Lede, suggesting that The Times “have all the displaced ILLEGALS from the FIRES Move into the TIMES NYC HQ Building ... and let them urinate in the halls like they do infront [sic] of most every Home Depot in all the rest of the USA.” (After I pointed this comment out to editors, it was removed.)
After The Caucus, The Times’s politics blog, reported recently that the five organized crime families of New York had voted 3-to-2 not to put out a hit contract on Rudolph Giuliani when he was a crusading United States attorney, a reader with the screen name chopsticks posted this one-word comment: “Recount!” Another, Geoff, said: “Giuliani is just as corrupt as the MOB so who really cares. They should have gotten rid of him!”
And when City Room, the local blog, reported last Tuesday that a spokeswoman for Vice President Dick Cheney said her boss had not seen a Confederate battle flag at an exclusive upstate New York club where he went hunting, some readers responded with comments that included the word “crap,” which would almost certainly never appear in a letter to the editor in the printed newspaper.
“Some things are bound to slip through,” said Kate Phillips, editor of The Caucus. But she sees a bigger picture. “Reader engagement enriches our world,” she said. “I am totally enthralled, astounded by the minds of our readers.”
Yet Phillips said she struggles sometimes with the “intolerance” and “vitriol” she sees in some comments — so much so that on rare occasions “I almost wish we could go back to the days when we never heard their voices.”
Given the current political atmosphere, The Caucus is a magnet for splenetic comments, many of which don’t make it onto the Web site. A posting by a Times correspondent about Barack Obama is sure to bring out racist submissions. Mention of Mitt Romney inspires “just horrific misstatements about Mormonism and his own life,” Phillips said. Wild claims that Hillary Clinton is a murderer don’t make it either.
Several weeks ago, Phillips intervened in a running debate among readers over news that Christian conservatives were talking about supporting a third-party candidate for president. “Please refrain from the vicious name-calling,” she wrote, “not only against one another but also against one another’s political and religious views and identities. The attacks are neither constructive nor instructive and will not be published.”
Some readers chafe under such admonitions. “You cannot censure speech, however derogatory, mean-spirited, or offending it is,” wrote one, identified as jondom, in February, after another Phillips plea to “stop the name-calling.” “We need an open dialogue in this country, now more than ever,” jondom said. Another reader, Mithras, wrote: “Mandating tepid civility in blog comments has an ideological component. ‘Politeness’ bars sharply worded disagreement by dissenters against those who claim to be authority, but doesn’t usually bar dismissive or patronizing arguments by authority against the dissenters.”
Many major newspapers, like The Washington Post and USA Today, do not have an editor screen comments before posting them. Those two papers allow other readers to object to a comment as abusive, and then an editor will check it.
But Landman said The Times never considered unmoderated comments.
Martin Nisenholtz, senior vice president for digital operations of The New York Times Company, said: “A pure free-for-all doesn’t, in my opinion, equal good. It can equal bad.”
I believe that’s especially true if you’re The New York Times and you are trying to maintain a rare tradition of civility. A site with many Rays in Mexican Colony of LA might carry the name of The New York Times, but it would no longer be The New York Times.
Baby Jaablog should clean up its act
http://www.observationdeck.org/lip_images/baby%20smoking.jpg
From Justice Building Blog:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19039943&postID=9058904457150618546
Rich Traffic Lawyer said...
He big shot- do the math: Every day, 5 days a week, I have between 10-20 people on average walk into my office and hand me, on average $250.00 for their traffic stuff. I average 3500 a day, 17,500 per week- I don't pay bondsmen, I don't visit jails, and I pay other lawyers 10-20 bucks to cover those cases for me in court..
Rich (and happy) Traffic Lawyer said...
1:36 PM. I assure you that those numbers are conservative. Those numbers don't happen overnight. It takes advertising on multi-levels that I would never begin to divulge. Any two bit criminal lawyer that just wants to start sending out mailers- have fun spending 3 grand a week for a few years before seeing a return on your investment.
You see, if you do this right, you take a wash on the client's first visit, but you continue to stay in touch with them with updates, mailers, emails, end of year calendars, and you get the return business and the referrals- that's where the 100% profit lies. You reach a point of critical mass (or as the business gurus write- "from good to great") and then you need to break through to the next level. When that happens, you truly own a "cash cow." Now it just takes loving care to keep the cow providing milk.
You need a great staff- one well paid secretary; two fairly well paid secretaries; and three to four office staff at 10/an hour that you constantly lose. You need good connections in the "coverage community" so those lawyers that cover your cases don't screw you. In summary- you need good business sense. I do the other legal stuff for fun, and for the extra bucks. As I said- a 5K DUI is all gravy to me, and I do a very good job on those.
Is my Mom proud? She liked the last Cruise to Italy I gave to her and Dad in September. She likes the Lexus I lease for her. She likes knowing I used my education to build a business to take care of my faimly. She likes my charitable work that I do. She liked the article on the pro bono case I won in Texas for an indigent inmate. Yes, I think she's proud of me. More importantly, I'm proud. It wasn't always like this. I haven't been doing this the longest- Marc Gold, Scot Hidnert and Randy Maultasch all got into this before me. But I worked hard, managed my practice as best I could, and now, before the age of 50 I work as hard as I want to, and I'm planning an early retirement and the next phase of my life. Maybe I'll run for PD.
I know this much: No scummy lawyers with bondsmen are stealing my cases; I don't sit for hours waiting for depos that don't show up; and I'd rather deal with a truculent Ed Newman then an out of control Will Thomas or Betty Butchko any day of the week.
Have fun at Metro West. You can eat a Burger King in car on the way home tonight, while I think I'll have a bite at Prime 112 on the beach. (Its a 50 at the door, but its worth it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=484675&in_page_id=1773
you dont know the facts of the case...ever heard of innocent until proven guilty?
every dog has his day. my day will come after sentencing when i move for a reduction in my sentence.
sleep well my friend who threw me under the bus...