THURSDAY NOTES
RIP Frank Lee Smith: An Innocent Broward Man Who Died on Death Row
4. The police detectives and the attorney told me the man had a scar under his eye. I never saw a scar and they knew that. The state attorney told me that the man on trial had committed several crimes just like the one that happened near my grandmother's house. The state attorney also told me that the man on trial was dangerous, guilty of the crime, and needed to be taken off the streets.
5. While I was in the courtroom telling about what I saw, I knew that the man on trial was too thin to be the same man I saw on the street. The police detectives and the state attorney put so much pressure on me to testify against the man on trial.
6. The state attorney told me not to worry about my testimony because the man would be locked up and electrocuted the following May. He also pointed out the man's entire family to me. I was just feeling so pressured.
- Affidavit of Chiquita Lowe
SAO OPEN FOR BUSINESS ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT
(COURTS CLOSED MONDAY FOR YOM KIPPUR)
What else can happen?
ROC Last Week
(although you'll find the same in almost every Broward courtroom, any day of the week)
The "Primordial Urge" defense - a lawyer plans on trying a consensual sex with a minor charge soon (+16), looking for a jury pardon. What's the angle? "Technology has outpaced evolution". Here's how it goes: "Once upon a time, the mother of your child had to be young and strong to survive the ordeal of childbirth. The mortality rates for both mother and child were brutal, before modern medicine. Of course, we're way beyond that now, but the fact remains that men are still genetically programmed to find late teen gals extremely sexy ... " Will it work? We'll let you know ...
JAABLOG SOS! - are you a capable Apple Desktop Publisher? We need someone to come up with some professional looking flyers for distribution to defendants, jurors and other members of the public in front of the Courthouse. They've got to look good, since we hope to draw many more layperson eyes to our humble blog. If we're going to finally rid Broward of yesteryear's misguided detritus, we need your help. Please send us an Anonymous Tip with contact info, and a quote for how much your bang-up design job will cost us. Your anonymity is 100% guaranteed.
Is it true? - did the SAO really fly in a witness from Israel on a misdemeanor petit theft? We heard the story today, and have pretty much confirmed it. The problem is that it happened a year or two ago. Should we follow up, or is the story stale? Maybe we'll ask Anthony Caravella and the rest of the innocents, who obviously didn't have a blank check (or an SAO nickel) when it came to the SAO investigating their cases ...
Who's your Daddy? - hopefully it's Mike Satz, who would let any of his kids (if he had any) stay up all night eating candy and watching R rated movies, and then sleep through school the next day. Seriously, how ridiculously obvious is the public corruption in Broward, when clowns like Eggelletion and Gallagher are allegedly selling their souls for chump change, and stuffing it in doggie and golf bags to boot? Still, we're awful happy that the public is finally starting to see Satz for what we believe he is, namely a blatantly self-interested politician who knows it's politically expedient to kick the living crap out of poor people, while turning tail in the face of the powerful crooks who could do him harm.
And how embarrassing for "Iron Mike" that the Feds snubbed him? What does it mean? Is it possible that his office has somehow been implicated in the probe, which has now touched on his pals in the Book and Scherer empires? Or did they shun him because of his legendary tolerance for public corruption, as the Sentinel's Mike Mayo wonders? No one can say for sure, although it's a safe bet this one's going to be the ride of a lifetime for old Mike, particularly following so closely on the heels of his pal Ken Jenne's bust.
The Broward Difference - corruption, stupidity, greed and dishonesty are part of political life EVERYWHERE. Stupid people with low self-esteem can't help it, just like they can't help running for office in the first place. The Broward difference? Here, while the rich, powerful, or badged openly violate the law without consequence, the criminal justice system turns around and beats poor minorities with sadistic zeal on even the most petty offenses, hypocrisy be damned. It doesn't happen in other major metropolitan areas, AND IT NEEDS TO STOP RIGHT NOW IN BROWARD.
What's wrong in Repeat Offender Court? - Why does it seem that everybody diverted for special prosecution by the SAO is African-American or Hispanic? And why are Career Criminal ASAs being saddled with cases they can't prove? Is anybody minding the store since Mark Springer retired? Constantly developing ...
This and that - we've got a coupler of killer PC Affidavits in the pipeline, hopefully ready for delivery tomorrow; Here's the Daily Mail Story on former Rolling Stone Mick Taylor that all the classic rock DJs have been clucking about for the last couple of weeks; And from the Best Response Department: Q - "Did you win your trial?" A: "The case is currently on appeal"; Click here for the DBR's Jordana Mishory's scoop on yet another juvenile defendant (#3) peeing himself before Judge Feren (not because the Judge drew to an inside straight, but because Chief Judge Tobin won't offend a more senior judge by sticking him or her in Feren's bathroomless courtroom).
WHAT A GREAT PLACE TO HAVE A BLOG!
"John Scherer, son of prominent local attorney Bill Scherer, is Gulf's president."...
Ouch! He must hate this negative publicity swirling around his offspring every other day.
liz has some nerve being a prosecutor. her ex and now her brother.
almost forgot about the grady rumor too.
ALL THE FACILITATOR PIGS IN THE BROWARD PIGSTY NEED TO GO AWAY ONCE AND FOR ALL
This is conjecture but maybe the FBI didn't tell anyone in the SAO what was going on because they were worried some bad apple in the notoriously soft on corruption SAO would tip off the targets?
Thank you for dedication to justice.
I read this blog every damn day and it makes me motivated to change, to stand up for the poor, and make wave for a new and civilized community. Clearly jailing people who abuse drugs should not be a priority-but rather prosecuting the thiefs who run the county!!!
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/5min/story/1250697.html
Herald
On Thursday, Broward State Attorney Michael Satz's office denied claims that it was uninvolved in Wednesday's arrests.
At a press conference Wednesday, Sloman said there had been ``no coordination'' with the State Attorney's Office, ``but I wouldn't read into that at all.'' However, Satz's critics did read into that a slam against Satz, who has been accused at times of being soft on elected officials.
Tim Donnelly, who heads Satz's public-corruption unit, disputed Sloman's characterization. ``We were not shunned,'' he said. ``It's unfortunate the impression is that we were not informed or did not provide any assistance. We have a great working relationship with the U.S. Attorney's Office and provided whatever assistance they required of us.''
He said Satz's office provided assistance in all three cases, but declined to give details.
When they haul off all the corrupt politicians I hope they also take the corrupt lawyers like Scherer and .... you know who (the boss of disgraced judges). How long can scherer wield any power when his entire family continually embarrasses him with scandal after scandal.
John Scherer did not become president of Gulf Building until January 2009 when he took over the (then) bankrupt company. His name was thrown in that sun-sentinal article so that stupid people will jump to stupid conclusions. Get a grip. The Scherer family is really not that interesting.
It certainly seems to run in the family, doesn't it?
This has been on its way for a long time. I only hope they do a good job in ferreting out all of them. It's truly disgusting how they'd do this, and it took so little for them to make the swing to the dark side.
Satz and Tim ,Please pick your face up off the ground.You can't spin this one can you hahahahahahahahahaaaa.Doughnut annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnny one.Now that I look back at that Pic micky micky it looks as though your office was tossed by the feds abd here we thought you were having a bad day.
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2009/09/the_scherer_connection.php
The Scherer Connection
Neither Scherer returned phone calls from the Pulp. Again, neither is implicated in the federal investigation and there is no indication of wrongdoing. But it sure is interesting where Bill Scherer turns up. This year he's been in the news when his son-in-law, Anthony Mercer, was charged with drug crimes. Mercer's felonies magically turned into misdemeanors, much to the dismay of the folks at JAABlog, who suspected Bill Scherer's friendship with State Attorney Michael Satz might have influenced the hand-slap. Then there was the case of pervert BSO deputy Charles Grady, who also seemed to have gotten off light after it was learned he was sexually assaulting female detainees. Grady, it turns out, had been dating Bill Scherer's daughter, Elizabeth, who is also one of Satz's favorite prosecutors and was the wife of Anthony Mercer. (I know, it's a soap opera, right?)
Don't you mean CRIME. PASS THE POPCORN PLEASE. FRONT ROW SEATS START AT ,BIG QUESTION WHAT IS YOU ALLS WORTH.aNY MANY BOOKS NOT WORTH A DAMMMMMMMM.
The mysterious role Bill Scherer, NBHD CEO Wil Trower and the rotund lobbyist Tom Panza played in the abortive attempt* to build a new district hospital on the campus of Nova SE University (*which blew up when the wrong people read the original Bad News financial feasibility study for the District boondoggle that had somehow never seen the light of day.)
This county needs a total new set of players. The old ones have just about driven Broward County into the ground with their dirty politics.
Lorie Parrish uses Ron Catchatorie as her bag man He collects the illegal campaign contributions from people like Jack Hutchings who forced his employees to write $500 dollar checks to Parrish and then gave the employees $500 cash back. Then Lori got rid of the inspector who visited Hutchings home to reassess after an elaborate mulit-million dollar remodel. Hutchings only gave $12,000 that year but saved hundreds of thousands on his taxes that Broward could sure use. Now Hutchings atty. David Simmons has R. Catchatori on his payroll how cozy
Connect the dots from the broward judeciary and the UBS bank release of over 4,000 tax cheats with illegal off shore accounts to hide rhonda hollander / jay spechler / ed nekritz / stan marcus cash .
If I were Judge Feren I'd be peeing myself about now.
Is that Mikey Weinstein, Judge Weinstein's kid representing some of the witnesses? Funny how the names and judicial connections work, isn't it? Maybe it's not so funny. Broward is really like a big bad political bag of slimy tricks with the same turkeys coming up over and over again.
I said it before and I'll say it again. The best thing that could happen is for mickey mikey shatz to suck 158 grains out of a steel tube along with timmy-boy amoeba and scratchy ratz. Save us all from any more of you shitznanigans.
It's a huge public service.
the legal infrastructure of Broward is built on THE BENCH AND BAR COMMITTEE ....... where the mombachs go to get their seltzer and luysters .
there really needs to be thorough investigation into broward and its DNA TESTINGS. there has been lots of tampering, disapearance of dna when needed for re testing, sending innocent people to prison on trumped up dna evidence, so officers could get promotions, IT IS TIME SATZ is held responsible for all the corruption, just to put more black youths in prison.DO SOMETHING DO SOMETHING NOW NOW NOW
Satz once and for all please pack that office with your s---t and leave the property. You are no longer needed or wanted Scott come and get him.ASAP