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A FINE MESS

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

A Circuit Court Judge is invested with the power to adjudicate the most serious cases filed at the trial level in circuit court. In criminal court, a circuit court judge has the power to order the execution of a defendant when a majority of a duly selected jury recommends it. In civil court, a circuit judge presides over the the most serious of cases, many of which involve complicated rules. The Florida Rules Of Civil Procedure prescribe what can be at times a complicated series of deadlines that lawyers have to navigate their case through. When a dispute arises over those deadlines, a circuit court judge is often required to lend their expertise and decide how the complicated rules and deadlines apply to that case. What is with the circuit judges in Dade? First Judge Johnson can't file his retirement papers timely, and now comes word that Judge Adrien, whose current assignment is civil court, has had difficulty in following the rather simplified rules that govern Florida elections...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on May 03, 2010 (boomark / email).