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THURSDAY NOTES

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FRIDAY, FRIDAY, FRIDAY ... There's a status hearing in the Loureiro matter before Judge Lucy Chernow Brown in Palm Beach tomorrow.  Conventional Wisdom has it that the State will CONCEDE the evidentiary hearing set on May 26.  The discovery process has thus far ground to a halt, and apparently all eyes are now focused on Judge Brown, since it's up to her whether or not she'll accept a concession and allow a new trial without any further investigation.  Let's hope she says NO to a potential bailout, and YES to a full blown hearing on the 26th IN THE INTEREST OF TRUTH AND JUSTICE.Here is the BSO letter that went out yesterday killing most in custody drug rehab programs.  What will the judges do now?  Satz will likely still demand jail and prison for non-violent drug offenders, and now the judges are left with no alternatives except community based programs...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on May 14, 2009 (boomark / email).