THE BIRD IS THE WORD
Former APD Roshawn Banks files for County Court Judge, Group 15_________________________________________________________________________
Everyone's favorite case filer strikes again.
Good old Mark Horn.
No job too large, too small, or too wrong.
Whether it's taser victim Kevin Bradley, or elevator beatdown victim Joshua Ortiz, Satz can count on Horn.
Today's episode concerns a preposterous PC Affidavit, a rock (no, not a cocaine rock, a rock as in a "VALTOX tested positive" stone), a negative lab report, and, drum roll please, felony charges for one Anthony Bellamy.
Don't worry. Mr. Bellamy is ok now. Heck, he might even be better off after the lawsuit, having spent roughly six weeks in the Broward County Jail because of, at best, Satzian incompetence, or, at worst, Satzian malfeasance.
Click the link for all the documents. It would be a real hoot, except it's not funny at all.
STUPID ON CRIME
WEDNESDAY NOTES
Judge Rodriguez-Powell takes a cue from Stanton Kaplan Tuesday, requiring an overzealous prosecutor to apologize to the jury for her inappropriate remarks during closing argument. It all led up to another not guilty for the Public Defender's Office, after the SAO wastes two days on yet another cocaine residue trial; Judge Robinson grants a JOA Tuesday after the police officer can't identify the Defendant, instead pointing to some guy in the audience; Jail population hits 86% of capacity at the end of last week. It was averaging 98% before there was a full time magistrates judge. Imagine if there was consistency on the weekends too...
Al Jazeera: US concerns over 'justice for all' (Finkelstein)
RETRACTION: THE AFOREMENTIONED ANECDOTE ABOUT
THE APOLOGY IN RODRIGUEZ-POWELL NEVER HAPPENED.
Here's what did happen: an objection was raised & sustained. Sidebar, the ASA immediately took responsibility and volunteered to correct her statement in front of the jury.
THE ASA DID THE RIGHT THING IN A VERY PROFESSIONAL MANNER.
OUR APOLOGIES TO THE ASA IN QUESTION, THE BROWARD STATE ATTORNEY'S OFFICE,
AND JUDGE RODRIGUEZ-POWELL.
Ummm..so whats the problem? The charges were filed before a negative test by the lab....and it was approved before a negative by the lab. That's why they have a lab, because field tests aren't always 100%....grasping at straws are we?
Filed the same day as the negative from the lab and contrary to policy where felony charges can't be filed without a positive lab.
The PC is a joke. Only in Broward would these kind of lies be tolerated/filed on.
11:27 should do time in the jail on a bad arrest or unproveable crime...grasping at straws indeed...or likely 11:27 is an asa who believes defendants are guilty of stuff they didn't get caught for so it doesn't make any difference whether or not the instant case can be proven in a court of law..
Of course and this young man was kept from his MBA studies while running his succesful small business. I heard the rap sheet was a mile long. Did society a favor one less criminal on the streets for a day.
Pathetic @ 11:27 and Anon @ 8:09.
Are you guys really lawyers, who studied
right from wrong and took and oath ?
You haven't got the guts to post under your real name or the ethical standards
required of a member of the bar.
F U both scumbags............
Is it those that live in a glass house shouldnt throw stones......or is it the pot calling the kettle black (please, dont put a racist spin on it)
your message makes you sound like a raving hypocrite
Wow! I would love to hear the officer give an explanation as to why their valtox test came up positive?
has the state ever NOT backed up a lying police officer?
No.
Wow, Nate's gonna be pissed.
Unfreakingbelievable. This has to be grounds for a bar complaint against Mark Horn. Is it grounds for a bar complaint against Satz?
BTW, the initials on the front page of the information are Jules Cohn's, not Horn's, i.e., something happened inside FCF for this to go to Horn. I just don't know what to say: outrageous doesn't even begin to describe it.
Yeah, right, not in a million years.
Why does Horn's name pop up so often on the weird ones? Has he been there a long time or something?
who is Roshawn running against? She would be a credit to the bench.
Checking the SOE website, Group 15 is Judge Shutter's seat. WTF? No offense to Roshawn, but could we please contest elections against judges who DON'T deserve to be on the bench? Or is Shutter retiring?
Shutter is retiring.
Mark Horn is a good guy. i don't know the specific facts of the case, but I am not going to trash an otherwise stand-up guy.
On a lighter note, Ms. Banks will need to make a strategic decision on her skirt length during the campaign. Not sure if they'll play at century village, but the east side repubs will appreciate the micro-minis.
"...I am not going to trash an otherwise stand-up guy."
For filing a STONE as Possession of Coke? My understanding was that SAO policy was not to file felony drug cases until they have a lab report, period. My unsubstantiated guess is the guy has a lengthy record and was about to be ROR'd for the State failing to timely file, so it went to Horn from the regular assigned filer.
How this is NOT a blatant perjury case against the FLPD officers is beyond me. "Valtox positive," my a$$.
The FLPD reported that the positively tested it, they didnt report that it tested positive. That is asking too much. Both test it and have it test positive, cmon Broward is getting tough nowadays.
The only way Roshawn Banks can win in Broward is to run as Shawn Banks and hide out for a year. Jeeze she didn't even pull 2 percent of the vote when she ran for the House of Reps last year.
One was actually filed for a filing without probable cause after reading ALL the reports, the exculpatory victim confessed information OMITTED from the PC affidavit to cover up the real perp--a corrosive rogue roadrageaholic Ft. L. Cop from arrest and prosecution for causeing and creating the situation and then fabricating a conviction with knowing use of perjury in collusion with defense attorney Gerry Cunningham who refused to impeach the alleged vic WITH his criminally inculpatory statements and more.
Juan "the ethical" Arias dismissed the complaint because he found the other sworn exculpatory statement the prosecutor suppresssed that destroyed the credibility of dirty coppie-boy and exculpated the def. didn't warrant any violation of ethics after having successfully obtained a conviction with it, and nobody violates Rules of honesty by using and refusing to bring it forward and if a lawyer can get away with it, there's the proof of ethical propriety.
A restraining order was filed obo of minor children and was denied. The link to the documents is http://img14.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=courtpapers001.jpg
It’s inconceivable the disregard for protecting little children that this judge exhibited today. I have witness tohers seeking restraining order with far less convincing evidence than this case. I am at lost of words and will here. I am not sure who this judge is as her handwriting is very bad. Look like Greenhawdt to me.
Well, there's at least one other lawyer I know that's looking for this seat, and he's been making the rounds for a while. This is going to be an interesting race.
Sorry..site is http://img404.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=courtpapers001.jpg
Someone Please run against Greenhawdt in 2010. I work closely with 103 publix's in Broward. My relationship with management and staff is excellent. I can gather votes and raise money for anyone. I will personally seek to it.
anthonyromano@rockemail.com
Did you think that conviction of an election law violation during you house race last year wasn't going to come out. Especially the part in the ruling where your silly excuses for your wrongful conduct were summarily dismissed by the panel. From what I hear about you thats just the start of the sloppy at best law career you have had. Welcome to the game. Keep an eye out for the first mail piece.
I have a client currently that was arrested for trafficking in mdma. He was arrested with about 100 "ecstasy" pills. They allegedly valtoxed and got a positive. The Defendant came up with the $7500 (10%) fee and his family bonded him out. The lab report came back that all the pills were no controlled substance except for 1 pill! The State changed the charge to possession with intent. At least they caught it before they filed but still. Do you mean to tell me the officer valtoxed the 1 real pill in the batch, just by sheer luck! The officer should have to give him the $7500 back!
No, he should not get back the $7500.00. He was going to sell bad "rolls" and try to get away with it. Thats what he gets. Everyone knows that bad rolls suck and the dealer should get what is coming to him. The state should find the intended purchaser and allow him to beat his ass in open court.
"We stop the vehicle and approached Mr. Bellamy and asked him if he needed the police for any assistance. Mr. Bellamy answered the question by stating "No I was only giving you the bird". I then asked Mr. Bellamy, "Do you mind if I search you?" Mr. Bellamy stated "go ahead, no problem"
This has to be one of the greatest paragraphs ever written in a PC.
Fiction at its finest.
IT WOULD BE EASIER TO GET THE BAR to stop covering up for the lawyers at MARRA MADOFF MERKEN CIAVARELLA STANLEY MARCUS SELTZER NEKRITZ VENTURI DUHAIME GENE MOSS .
another instance where Mr. Gelin got it wrong AGAIN. If you actually spent as much time trying your cases instead of skirking around the courthouse for crap to put on this blog then maybe you'd actually be considered a decent lawyer. then again, maybe not.
people need to hear about these horrific stories.. majority of which come straight out of the case filing division of our great sao office. maybe you guys will wait for a lab report to return before you falsely imprison a citizen for two months of their life based on a candy, not crack!
I do not know Ms. Banks.... but she could use braces. That photo is very unflattering... she looks angry.
Because Horn is the first to start the process--the first to violate Bar rule 4-3.8(a); the first to file and create and establish the problems and force somebody else to resolve them--BECAUSE he's been there a long time.