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3rd DCA ROUNDUP

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

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Judge Sayfie joins the hall of shame here for a 3.850 case. Same song, different verse. Ditto Judge Pinero here and here. And Judge Rosa Rodriguez here.Judge Ward's denial of a 3.850 in Henad v. State was upheld. Ward reasoned that the defendant who took a 5 year prison sentence when faced with a 15 year minimum mandatory in a case that carried a very high likelihood of conviction was not believable when he argued that if his attorneys had told him he would be deported he would have turned the plea offer down. Can't really argue with that decision. Better to be a free man in Colombia then serve an extra ten years in the US. Pretty quite in the 3rd DCA in criminal cases the last two weeks. We have been out of town for 10 days now and the late Senator Ted Kennedy's autobiography True Compass is turning into a very compelling read and a good companion in this quiet southern town we find ourselves in...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).