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• 3/8/2008 10:35 PM Breaking NEWS wrote:
  Bullets miss judicial candidate
  A candidate for judge was attacked last week in Little Haiti by gunmen who peppered her SUV
  
  Miami-Dade judicial candidate Abbie Cuellar was driving along a side street in Little Haiti last week when two men emerged from a minivan-type vehicle and riddled her Infiniti SUV with bullets.
  
  She survived, but flying glass slashed her face.
  
  ''I wish I knew. I wish I knew it was a random act,'' Cuellar said this week. ``If it's something more sinister than that, I don't know what to do to protect myself.''
  
  The shooting is still perplexing Miami homicide detectives, who on Friday were to talk with Cuellar, 45, about details of the attack.
  
  The best theory: The gunmen were likely carjackers.
  
  Cuellar, a family-law and child-welfare attorney who lives in the Shorecrest neighborhood, is running against Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jeri Beth Cohen in November's election.
  
  On Feb. 26, the night of the attack, Cuellar had gone to a wine-and-cheese tasting in Doral. Exiting the Airport Expressway, she drove her black 2006 Infiniti sports utility vehicle, and headed home to Miami's Upper Eastside.
  
  Running empty on gas, she stopped at the Sunoco station, 1 NW 54 St., which she believed was better lit than the station across the street.
  
  Cuellar says she noticed nothing unusual while pumping gas. Just lots of cars.
  
  SHORT-CUT
  
  At about 10:25 p.m., down 54th street, she turned up Northeast Fourth Court, a two-lane side street used as a short-cut by many Upper Eastside residents.
  
  As Cuellar sped home -- she hadn't eaten at the event -- she noticed a large car next to her around 64th Street. It was odd because the lane was for oncoming traffic.
  
  The vehicle was light colored and large, though she couldn't tell if it was an SUV or a mini-van.
  
  ''What I really noticed was that the back window -- the whole back door -- was a tinted window. I remember that very distinctly. I had never seen that before,'' she recalled.
  
  The vehicle accelerated to pass her up, then slowed in front of her. Her Infiniti nearly hit the back of the vehicle. She braked.
  
  ``I immediately knew something was going down.''
  
  She said she saw two men get out and start shooting. ``I put the car in reverse and floored it. A bullet hit the windshield and it shattered. I crouched down and drove the car in reverse. Don't ask me how.''
  
  Her Infiniti came to a stop at an intersection. She flung open the door. Another car stopped, but the driver refused to help. Bleeding, Cuellar instead drove to Andiamo Pizza, 5600 Biscayne Blvd., where she called 911.
  
  Bullet holes marked the bumper, windshield and roof. Seven bullet casings were found, Cuellar said.
  
  STUMPED
  
  Police speculate the gunmen followed her from the Sunoco.
  
  Detectives theorize they wanted to steal her car but were spooked when she reversed.
  
  Miami Cmdr. David Magnusson, who oversees Little Haiti, is baffled.
  
  ''It could very well be a robbery. But it's a string of e
  
• 3/8/2008 11:33 PM L. Benson wrote:
  Gotta love it. Cheatin' Judge Carney reversed and remanded on 3 separate trials. He hasn't had such a grweat run since his 1996 Hat trick--Turkey or what whatever a triple is called when he was reversed on all 3 defendants in the same trial for allowing prosecutorial miscondut to to poison the process and prevent fair trials.
  
  Does Carney get any reward for that? Chief Judge, Maybe?
  
• 3/9/2008 12:49 AM Oh may god wrote:
  The Lazarus case is a MUST READ. The guy had a urologist testify that his penis was below average in size and could not have caused the vaginal tearing and had great discussion whether it was caused by agressive use of a dildo. Great Read.
  
• 3/9/2008 1:21 PM tonya wrote:
  what does speck have on ms.peggy....... she allows him to steal with impunity.
  
• 3/9/2008 8:30 PM Lady Justice wrote:
  It is too bad that the defense attorney did not ask for a continuance for his expert. However, the dildo lineup was creative, but not let in. (No pun intended)
  
• 3/10/2008 10:28 AM The dildo lineup wrote:
  While the dildo lineup was a good try, I think it still comes a close second to something I believed occurred back in 2001 in Judge Zack's courtroom, where a defense attorney was having discussions regarding a possible vaginal lineup.
  
  Apparently, the defendant was charged with indecent exposure at a stripclub where she was "working" on evening. While the club was "topless only", the two detectives were "under cover" as patrons, and a dancer bent over, fishhooked her skivvies, and exposed her "hoo nanny nanny".
  
  After the dance, the detectives went into the back area of the club and asked some of the other dancers who had just been on stage (apparently with the dim lighting, the cops couldnt make out the face of the defendant (yah right, they were looking at other things).
  
  Two of the employees pointed at the defendant, at which time she was arrested for exposing herself inappropriately.
  
  Given the fact that the officers admittedly did not "get a good look at the defendant's face when she was in the commission of the criminal act", and instead relied upon the statements of some other employees, there was serious discussion about the need for a lineup so the officers could identify the offending organ.
  
  Urban myth or reality?
  
• 3/10/2008 5:18 PM Anonymous wrote:
  9:28, this is Broward: while I can't confirm the story either, I'd STRONGLY lean toward reality.
  

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