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RED TIDE

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Ever wonder what the rest of the State thinks of our fair city? Hip South Beach? Fabulous restaurants?The new opera house?Communities filled with hard working families making life a little better for their children? All true, but that's not how some Floridians view us, especially Judges who work in courthouses north of Miami. If like us, you have had the occasion to travel around the state and represent individuals in other counties, then you know that many judges, prosecutors, police officers and others view Miami as some crime ridden slum exporting drugs, vice, corruption and thuggery throughout the world. That is certainly the express and avowed view of Palm Beach Circuit Judge Krista Marx who in a recent interview said that "crime is inexorably moving northward from Miami like the red tide...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on December 11, 2009 (boomark / email).