MEDIA 1/14
Attorney Levi Williams Making A DifferenceHERALD:
STATE PANEL RECOMMENDS MENTORING, EDUCATION, AND LAWS TO HELP YOUNG BLACK MALES:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/378375.html
"The Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys will deliver its report Tuesday to Gov. Charlie Crist and the Legislature ... seek(ing) to prevent boys from dropping out of school and winding up in Florida's prisons...
The report specifically recommends a new law to prohibit the Florida Department of Law Enforcement from selling databases of arrest records without detailing charges or convictions or the records of juveniles who have gotten into trouble."
DAILY BUSINESS REVIEW:
CONTROVERSIAL NEW RULE ALLOWS JUROR QUESTIONS IN CRIMINAL TRIALS:
http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/news.html?news_id=46596
LAW PROFESSORS CHALLENGE CLAIMS OF JUDGES QUITTING BENCH DUE TO LOW PAY:
http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/news.html?news_id=46578
TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT:
SENIOR (RETIRED) JUDGES IGNORANT OF LOCAL PRACTICES:
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080114/NEWS01/801140327/1010
"There's one thing State Attorney Willie Meggs and Public Defender Nancy Daniels can agree on — visiting judges that help with the Leon County court's caseload often aren't familiar with common practices around here...
A senior judge gets paid $350 a day, which Chief Judge Charles Francis said is not very much money for their line of work."
LAW.COM:FORMER METH HEAD SUCCESSFULLY SUES HER DEALER (Canada):
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1200045935647
SEATTLE TIMES:
JUDGE REFUSES TO MAKE EXCEPTION TO NO HAT RULE FOR CANCER PATIENT (Above The Law):
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004122638_hatrule13.html
$350 a day - the same as a waiter at Joe's Stone Crab makes on a Weds night.
Money far better spent than the extra $150 a day they give the ADJ to act like a circuit court judge.
For g-d's sake, does he really need those extra sheckels to pay the nut on that McMansion in Ashville.
Or is he squirreling away those pennies for the day when the NBHD realizes its general counsel works less than part-time and cans her ass and finds a real lawyer to work real hours?
FROM THE JUSTICE BUILDING BLOG
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=19039943&postID=2045670607957053202
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
to 3:17 PM .... Bond Revoked ????
It may surprise you to know that what Eig attempted to do in your case occurs daily to our friends "North of the Border".
When a case is filed by Information in Court, and there are ANY changes whatsoever to the original arrest charges, then there is an automatic CAPIAS issued on the defendant.
For example. Defendant gets arrested for Second Degree Grand Theft, $20,000 - 99,999. He bonds out of jail. The State prefiles the case and files an Information charging the Defendant with Third Degree Grand Theft, $300 - $19,999.
Believe it or not, a CAPIAS will be issued on the defendant and he is subject to be taken into custody on the NEW charge.
At the Arraignment, if you were silly enough to File a Notice Of Appearance before Arraignment, and then NOT appear on Arraignment day, then there will an outstanding CAPIAS on file and your client will be arrested.
The origins of this come from complaints from the BONDSMEN. They were smart enough to argue that they were automatically discharged from the arresting charge when the State filed a new charge (Grand Theft 3rd) and basically abandoned the old charge (Grand Theft 2nd). They were off the hook and there was therefore no bonding agent on the new charge. So, the court reasoned, they had to issue a CAPIAS on the case.
No warning, no discussion before issuing the CAPIAS, just simply done.
The only legal way to hold the bondsman accountable for the new charge, is to bring them into court and have them swear under oath that they will accept the defendant on the "new" charge.
Keep this in mind the next time you venture North Of The Border!!!
CAPTAIN OUT .............
Monday, January 14, 2008 4:06:00 PM
Always the bad news for Good Ole' Broward. And let's not forget our favorite anti-hispanic small claims judge (And I'm not referring to his 4'11" height when I say small), the ADJ.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-13853429_ITM
Hooray for that Judge!!! Let's find out in court where the law is enforced as to who is legal and who is not.
Making it good over there
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbchanges0115sbjan15,0,1597287.story
$350.00 is more than most of them deserve for the day they put in. Arrive at 11:00, LUNCH which they don't pick up the tab for at 12:00, back at 2:00 for a hard afternoon till 3:00 and then a race for the judges parking garage to find that most of the other judges beat them out to miss the traffic home. Gimme a break! It's more than they deserve!
You got one thing wrong in your post Race For Home. The ADJ doesn't park in the judge's lot. The rest is pretty accurate for him.
Sounds accurate to me. Wonder why I can't get any hearings scheduled in the afternoons.
Levi Williams is a great lawyer and deserves all the positive press.
our opinions of him are quite different cris
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of course because jaab is racist