DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR?
Check out the police report in State v. Mercer.
Emergency! - Chief Judge Tobin is calling for an emergency PSCC meeting tentatively set for Friday, June 5th at 3:00 PM to discuss the impact of the reduction/elimination of in-custody drug programs. The general idea is that the elimination of the programs will cost the County more in the long run, due to unmitigated sentences causing longer jail stays.
Rule 3.130 has been amended by the Supreme Court. Click here to see the changes, which bring the smaller counties up to speed with the rest of us (thanks to BACDL for the tip).
Speaking of the Supreme Court, the online docket in State v. Loureiro has been updated. Tobin's May 22nd order vacating the conviction and ordering a new trial is now listed. Is this really the end, or are the rumors true regarding further official inquiry into the whole mess? Stay tuned ...
Here, There and Everywhere - Is former ASA Juan Arias in danger of being overexposed? He seems to be everywhere these days. On June 6th he'll be introducing Supreme Court Justice Jorge Labarga at the annual Broward Hispanic Bar's Installation Dinner, as the Association's President. On Thursday, June 11th, he'll be receiving the Young Lawyers' Section Paul May Professionalism Award at the annual Broward Bar Association's Installation Dinner. All this, and he still finds time to dance the night away for charity and prosecute lawyers on behalf of the Florida Bar. All we want to know is when will he announce his candidacy, and for what office?
Next week will find more empty courtrooms than usual. Many circuit judges will be whooping it up in Fort Myers while simultaneously collecting CJE credits. It's our understanding that the annual judicial conference has been canceled this year due to budget cuts, so there's been a bit of a scramble for them to meet their continuing education requirements. Boo hoo hoo.
As far as judges go, Judge Perlman, sorry, soon to be Judge Sandra Perlman, has sent her papers off to Tallahassee. We'll let you know as soon as the Florida Divison of Elections website is updated. Hopefully we'll also get the go ahead soon to name the next APD name everyone already knows is running anyway. Perlman, Solomon, Raticoff and ________. Can you fill in the blank?
Speaking of Mindy Solomon, a representative of the SAO told us earlier this week that they were in the final stages of preparing the answer to her public records request filed on behalf of the Public Defender in the former Deputy Charles Grady misdemeanor probation plea. We know we're not alone in wanting to see the contents of this particular file, particularly in relation to the immunity from further prosecutions award that was given in exchange for his plea.
Housekeeping - There's a hearing in State v. Martinez Friday at ten before Judge Lebow, the first since Palm Beach came on board after the Broward SAO was booted off the case for questionable practices. State v. Detombeur is set for trial on Monday, June 8th before Judge Seidman. Lee Cohen still hasn't authorized a nolle prosse on this one, and Pro Se Detombeur is hanging tough. He's served nearly twice the legal maximum sentence on the Loitering/Prowling charge and has a no bond hold on trafficking charges, yet the State seems hellbent on wasting a ton of taxpayer money on a jury trial anyway. Eleanor Adderley has been reset for June 29th before Judge Levenson, the third judge on the latest Satz/Bogenschutz special. Lastly, swing by Judge Lebow's place tomorrow afternoon to watch Clement Dean and Debbie Zimet battle it out for the third time on the same non-capital murder one. The first two juries hung, the last time 9-3 not guilty.
That's it!
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he admits to dealing for the last 3 months. the same amount of time he had been split from the wife. verrry interesting.
Did this guy ever listen to his wife's work stories? What did they talk about at dinner? Sports? A full blown confession post miranda to packaging the coke and everything else? What a moron. No wonder they won't buy him a lawyer. He deserves to go away as a total numnuts.
OK so he gets a little bored and decides at the ripe old age of 35 that he's gonna deal for a living! WTF...Perhaps he and Liz discussed his career change over a candelight dinner. Wow!!!!
selling, eh. A bit worse than simply possessing.
Paying what rent? Is he talking about their house expenses or what? And his wife is an Asst. State Attorney and doesn't know anything about it? What is this, a bad dream? It is for her I bet.
First thing, if you get pinched, shut up. I literally learned that at the age of 12.
Second, his ASA wife never shares stories with him? This guy is an imbecile and so is she for marrying the dum-dum. Sleep with dogs, wake with fleas.
Beating a crime you commit is not the goal of moral people.
So what does that say about judges who use lawyers to beat the JQC?
This Grady is the one Liz is dating?
Rumor has it Rob Jakovich is entering the race for judicial reform any day. That makes four APDs not to mention the host of others looking to bump out any number of sitting judges. Can't say I blame them for wanting to do a better job than the bunch of slackers we've got now. It's gonna get more interesting as the 2010 elections roll around. We need the new blood.
Sandra Pearlman paperwork appears on the Division of Elections website. She put in for group 51, the seat currently held by Judge Aleman. Is Judge Aleman going to run or retire?
She's going to lose the race, that's what.
Who are Raticoff and Jacovich putting in against? is Mclawrence putting in against the Adj? Come on! We all want to know.
He is also in charge of investigation attorneys who use fraud, deceit and perjury to obtain convictions and BACDAers who assist the SAO in obtaining convictions of their clients, like Gerry Cunntingham an Bo Hitch COCK and having Gardiner lie in collusion with Raft to conceal these failures and intentionally ineffective assistance of counsel as negligible instead of negligent. Then Adria Quintela protets Arias for NOT doing any investigation that might expose the fraud deceptions and corruption of the SAO and then had her rubber-stampers agree with her to dismiss any challenge with the real facts.
The dosier builds, children.
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Mindy Solomon? Oh, brother. Another whiner. Ireland is bad enough.
And Grady got the soft shoe on this?
This sounds like an inside job to me. The circumstances were probably set up to take the heat off of Grady. It stinks bad.