TUESDAY NOTES
Has Lisa had enough?Retiring? - It may be stop and smell the roses time for Lisa Von Tefs. We're told she informed Peter Weinstein Tuesday she'll be retiring, with a possible effective date in May. The rumor has already set off a scramble in the wannabe judge set anticipating a JNC announcement, and amongst judges coveting her cushy and prestigious civil division. Stay tuned for details ...
Recused! - Mary Robinson has taken herself off all DUI cases involving Carlos Canet, due to his representation of Robinson's daughter Rene. Canet is arguing the latest round of aggregated Intoxilyzer Source Code Motions Friday to an en banc panel of county judges, with hundreds of blows hanging in the balance. No word on how many cases Robinson has dumped due to the conflict at this point in time ...
This is Ana's big chance to get back in the game.
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Congratulations Judge Lisa Von Tefs. You have been a fair, honest, hard-working and dedicated judge. Your judicial demeanor is unmatched and the job you did throughout the years in both the criminal and civil division has been exemplary. We wish you the best. You will be a tough act to follow and will be missed.
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Good luck. You have served Broward with distinction
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well that's one way to dump a hundred cases on your fellow judges
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PLEASE MOVE DIAZ TO CIVIL AND PUT A HARD WORKING JUDGE IN CRIMINAL
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Von Tef is getting out while the getting is good? Don't blame her. I'd be getting out to. Not bad for not having to do anything for how many years?
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Does this mean Lisa is really planning to run for Governor in 2014? Stepping down now sounds like she really wants to go forward with her plan of running against Governor Scott in the Republican primary.
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One guess who she'll be moving onto ...
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What is a source code motion to suppress? Just curious..
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Boy I am out of the loop when did she stop being Lisa Trachman?
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ANA WHO?
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Lisa Von Tefts Trachman Von Tefts got divorced.
Seems she pulled a Gingrich......
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Diaz in civil
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Did Rosner apply for Trachman's seat yet?
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Whatever happened to Von Tef's sidekick Rip Van Sprinkles after his audacious disappearing act?
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Kudos to Judge Von Tefs to a job well done and knowing when to get out and enjoy life
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Did you hear the latest about Hurley? Stay tuned
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Anonymous wrote:
By Fred Grimm
fgrimm@MiamiHerald.com
MiamiHerald.com/columnists
First off, after my new company wheedles a contract to privatize a state prison, I intend to do away with traditional prison tattoos. Instead of tear drops or daggers or skulls or spider webs or barbed wire, none of which enhance an inmate’s commercial value, only corporate logos and slogans will be permissible.
Prisoner bodies, as virtual billboards, will give special new meaning to familiar phrases like: “What would you do for a Klondike bar?” Or, “It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.” Or, “Obey your thirst.” Or “Between love and madness lies Obsession.” Or “Pork, the new white meat.”
Won’t the fellows look enticing, festooned with logos and glistening with sweat while they pump iron in the prison gym, depicted on the reality TV shows, Prison Break: Everglades Correctional Institution Edition, or Real (Mean) Housewives of Broward Correctional Institution, that my production company intends to peddle to TruTV?
The old Department of Corrections has too long failed to exploit the untapped profit potential within its prison walls. Thanks to the Florida Legislature, my company will change that. On Monday afternoon, the Senate Rules Committee approved a bill that would privatize 29 prisons in 18 counties, all of them conveniently located down here in the southern dregs of Florida. That means some 4,000 state prison workers hereabouts will be losing their jobs. But it also means a lot more opportunity for well-connected operators like me to snag some taxpayer money. Which is why I have named my company “Corporation for the Re-Election of A Senator To Be Named Later.”
In my business plan, I figure to save money (and pocket the profits) by paying prison guards so damn little that only morally suspect, utterly unrepentant, former prisoners would even consider taking the jobs. They’ll know how to keep order. They’ll know how to supplement their paltry salaries by providing special services for the inmate population.
Another privatization bill percolating through the Legislature casts a veil of secrecy over the privatization process. The private companies get the contract first. The details and the cost-benefit analysis and the public discourse comes later. Both the First Amendment Foundation and Florida Tax Watch, not always the best of friends, have both gone berserk over the notion of Florida selling off its assets in secret. Sen. Gwen Margolis of Miami dubbed it the “after the fact” bill. “Extremely disturbing,” she called two privatization bills, though she wasn’t sure that either could be derailed.
Best of all, for someone like me, eager to cash in on the privatization craze, the rules would apply to any agency — toll roads, state parks, state cops. Me, I’ve got my eye on the university system. Don’t think of them as students. Think of them as commodities. My plan is to tattoo barcodes across their foreheads.
And faculty? That’s where
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Word is Hurley and Tobin may become suitemates
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This is terrible news. She is one of the top 2 judges in Broward Civil. She will absolutely be missed. She served us well. I consider her to be smart, fair, and a strong ability to see through insurer bullshit.
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I wonder if Lisa is going to move to the Seidman Home For Retired Broward Judges in Ashville?
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Seidman didn't retire. The asshole was voted out of town.
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So Hurley finds himself looking from the outside in? Interesting development.
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When did they post the Gm position that was just filled?
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Who needs to post a position when you have inside connections?
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Jim Lewis on the spanish channel Cristina Show... Comedy at its best.
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You must be jealous of Hurley to mention him on the blog when it is about another great Judge. Hurley is a great Judge and the people love him. You must want his division? He won the election and is here for another 6 year. Get used to it. He is FAIR, HARD WORKER AND KNOWLEDGEABLE. What more could you ask for in a Judge...nothing!
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I do not understand why people have to post negative and nasty comments on this blog about people. For those of you who post the negative or hurtful comment,
My question to you is "now tell me a positive story!"
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Not to mention he's one of the dumbest judges ever witnessed on the bench! Almost as dumb as Diaz.
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Hurley is one of the Brightest judges Mr. Sprinkles. Just because you don't like Hurley Mr. Sprinkles, you don't have to lash out at him every time someone posts about you on here.
Lets face is Mr. Sprinkles, you hate Tobin for giving you the public boot on the ass and for some mysterious reason you began to hate Hurley (well, he did fill your judge seat).
You sued Tobin and lost. You ran that #$%@& for brains candidate against Hurley and got another ass whoop'n.
Now, a few people take a shot or two and who do lash out at? That's right Tobin and Hurley (see 11:09 am and 8:13 pm).
C'mon Mr. Sprinkles isn't it time to give up? Tobin and Hurley (73% of the vote) kicked your ass.
At least Tobin and Hurley are employed.
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oh please! Judge Hurley is hard working, very smart and well respected. That is more than I can say for a former broward judge. geesh.
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Sprinkles>sad
Daiz>ehh
Hurley>nice guy & smart as a whip
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Why would anybody be jealous of Hurley???Yes, There is alot to be desired from this so called Judge. He has no clue on how to be a Judge. He is a Clown! He's preparing his career as a T.V. bozo judge!
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