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By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

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Last Entry: November 04, 2020 at 06:48:00

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:CAMPAIGN UPDATE

Posted on August 06, 2008
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:CAMPAIGN UPDATE - FACDL JUDICIAL CANDIDATES FORUMOn May 28, 2008, we wrote: "Beginning today and continuing each and every Wednesday, we will attempt to provide you with a weekly contest overview and then let you have at it and give us your opinions on why we should or should not vote for a certain candidate...

GONE BUT NOT MISSED

Posted on August 05, 2008
Anybody else thinking that with the circuit judges away this week , the courthouse has been quiet and peaceful and actually a decent place to work? Or maybe the oppressive heat just has dampened down everyone's normally bad manners. See You in the peaceful and quiet courthouse...

STEVE CHAYKIN

Posted on August 04, 2008
Today Steve Chaykin will be laid to rest. I didn't know him well as a person. However his reputation as an attorney was well known to all: a lawyer's lawyer; a man dedicated to his clients and to raising the standards of his profession. In reading the articles and tributes about Mr...

IRANIAN EMP NUCLEAR THREAT?

Posted on August 02, 2008
I don't think I've ever read an article in the last decade that frightened me more. The tile of the post links to the article. A nuclear attack does not have to involve dozens or hundreds of MIRV'd warheads striking US cities. That was the Soviet threat in the Cold War...

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BLAKE TOSSES SAO OUT OF PD CASE

Posted on August 01, 2008
Judge Stan Blake tossed Rudy Sorondo* and his client- the SAO out of the State Public Defender case in which the PD seeks not to accept any more cases during the budget crisis. However, Judge Blake allowed ASA Don Horn to cross Bennett Brummer. The title to the post links to the DBR Article which has a audio clip from the cross:"Q: You were late today?A: Yes...

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: ELECTION UPDATE

Posted on July 30, 2008
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: ELECTION UPDATE ..... Welcome to our ninth and final report in a series of reviews of the contested judicial races. Over the past two plus months we have attempted to introduce you to the 19 candidates that are running for the nine contested judicial seats in Miami-Dade County...

1000+

Posted on July 28, 2008
Very quietly last week we posted our 1000th blog post. It seems a bit surprising that we have sat down at various computers over the years almost a thousand times (we've had a few guests and the Captain contributes regularly) to write, mostly about our little world...

ABE LASER REMEMBERS KURT LYLE MARMAR

Posted on July 24, 2008
A few weeks ago there was a passing comment on the blog about a lawyer named Kurt Marmar. Mr. Marmar passed away in the 1980's. Mr. Abe Laeser responded with a comment about a Moot Court award at the U of M Law School given in Mr. Marmar's name. We asked him to write a few words about Kurt Marmar and he responded with this:Kurt Lyle Marmar Rare is the person who does not fade from memory after their death...

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: ELECTION UPDATE

Posted on July 23, 2008
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: ELECTION UPDATE ..... Welcome to our eighth in a series. Over the past seven weeks, we have brought you seven of the nine contested races analyzing the judicial elections in Miami-Dade County. In Week One, we focused on the only contested County Court race of Lindsay v...

Tricia Walsh Smith - The video that started it all!

Posted on July 22, 2008
The divorce case from hell. We've all heard about them. Well, this woman, who is divorcing her husband who is apparently well known Broadway producer, made a video about her husband and divorce and posted it on You-Tube. 3.2 million hits later, you can still watch her call her husband's secretary and complain that they had no sex, and yet she found a bottle of viagra and condoms...

BROWEIRD

Posted on July 22, 2008
Longtime and careful readers of the blog know our deep and abiding affection if not outright love for the courthouse and its denizens north of the border. Not. Check out the post on the Broward Blog entitled "Broweird." (the title of the post links to the blog article) A statue of Florida Governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward stands in the hallway to the entrance to the new wing of the courthouse...

ANOTHER HOT MONDAY IN JULY

Posted on July 21, 2008
It's the middle of summer.It's hot. It's boring. Somehow there are some robed readers who are left in this sweltering town who are actually trying cases. Great. Hot. Bored. And in trial. It's not a great combination. Meanwhile, the FINS TRADE JASON TAYLOR...

LOCAL BOYZ MADE GOOD

Posted on July 18, 2008
In a seeming blast from a past, a couple of Miami Cops were arrested on Thursday and appeared in Federal Court today before Magistrate Dube on charges they were involved with a gang that ran drugs and took bets. Rumpole says: What no food? What's a good bet without a little nosh?The title links to the Herald story...

COURAGE AND STRENGTH BEYOND ALL MEASURE

Posted on July 16, 2008
The following account is almost unbearably sad. And yet, it is a story of strength and courage and a life that would not be defeated. All nations have their important or tragic days seared into the national consciousness. April 22, 1979 is one of those days for IsraelisIn the early morning hours of that day, Samir Kuntar, then 16 years of age, landed on a beach in Israel with three other members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...

JAIL HI-JINKS

Posted on July 15, 2008
Anyone have the scoop on the fracas at the Dade County Jail?Protests. Ms. Georgia Ayers. Controversy and possible arrests.Rumours are flying, but alas we were not there. Who was?Site Feed

HANLON/MCDUFFIE CONTINUED

Posted on July 14, 2008
Two sides to the Hanlon/McDuffie issue:"Batman" wrote:When did we become such an unforgiving society that we can not recognize a good man rising from the ashes of his wrongdoing? Why do we celebrate such a story in movies and written fiction and not in real life? We preach redemption to our children when we bring religion into their lives, yet we grant none to those who have earned it...

RANCK WATCH D-DAY

Posted on July 14, 2008
Todays the day. Does the SAO continue its reign of terror firing anyone and everyone who crosses the path of the administration?Voice a concern about a police shooting? YOU'RE FIRED!!Accept a toy for charity in court? YOU'RE FIRED!!!Lie about why you were fired? YOU'RE REALLY REALLY FIRED!!!Sexually harass women employees? please resign whenever you feel most comfortable doing so...

30 YEARS AT THE SUPREME COURT

Posted on July 13, 2008
NY TIMES Reporter Linda Greenhouse is retiring after covering the Supreme Court for 30 years, Click on the title of the post to read the article. PENNY BRILL WAS RIGHT!!!That is the current headline on David Ranck's blog. We never knew anyone said she was wrong...

RANCK WATCH

Posted on July 10, 2008
ASA David Ranck posted on his blog that he has been summoned to a meeting with among other, Don "The Hatchet" Horn in which he will be disciplined for his comments critical on the State Attorney's Office handling of a specific police shooting case and other police shooting cases in general...

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: ELECTION UPDATE

Posted on July 09, 2008
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: ELECTION UPDATE ..... Welcome to our seventh of nine weekly reports analyzing the contested judicial elections in Miami-Dade County. In Week One, we focused on the only contested County Court race of Lindsay v. Lesperance. Since then, we have provided you with the Circuit Court races of Cueto v...

GREGG WENZEL

Posted on July 09, 2008
Today marks 5 years since the death of Gregg Wenzel. Gregg started as an assistant public defender in '94 and then went to The Florida Bar as Bar Counsel. He then was hired by the Foreign Service and based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he was killed by a drunk driver, who was tried in absentia, convicted and sentenced to one year in jail...

Friend Of Rumpole

Posted on July 08, 2008
Um...uhh...hello. Friend Of Rumpole here. He is uh...indisposed at the moment. He can't post with any regularity at the moment. He gave me the password and asked me to post something. Since I really don't know anything about what you guys do here, this is really my best effort...

HERE COME DA JUDGES

Posted on July 07, 2008
Miami Herald article Sunday (new feature: the title of the post links to the article) catching up with what we all know: That former Judges Marilyn Milian, David Young; Alex Ferrer; Cristina Pereyra- Shuminer and Karen Mills-Francis all have television shows where they play a Judge on TV...

NEW DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Posted on July 04, 2008
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation...

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: ELECTION UPDATE

Posted on July 03, 2008
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: ELECTION UPDATE ..... Welcome to our 6th in a series of nine weekly reports breaking down the contested judicial elections in Miami-Dade County. In Week One, we focused on the only contested County Court race of Lindsay v. Lesperance...

UPS AND DOWNS

Posted on July 02, 2008
UPDATE AND BREAKING NEWS:FEDERAL FRACAS!!!FDC FIST-A-CUFFS!BILL "The Brawler" BARZEE vs. BENSON "First Punch" WEINTRAUB. Punches; headlocks. Read all about it on David Markus's Federal Fight Blog. Rumpole says: You know, we've often thought that there needed to be little more civility and professionalism in Federal Court...

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:.... AND IN

Posted on July 01, 2008
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:.... AND IN THIS CORNERFor the defence: A distinguished member of The Florida Bar for the past 47 years, PARKER THOMSON. (Horace, you may have the "Clarence Clemons" of criminal law, but we've got the Clarence Darrow of the courthouse)...

FACE OFF AND SHOWDOWN

Posted on June 29, 2008
For the prosecution: The Big Man. The Clarence Clemons of Criminal Law. Local REGJB lawyer made good. Circuit Court Judge. Third District Court Judge. Now partner at Holland and Knight. Representing the Dade State Attorneys Office gratis in the contretemps over the Public Defenders' refusal to accept more cases in this era of budget cuts is one Rodolfo "Rudy" SorondoBut Sorondo has his work cut out for him, because Bennett Brummer and his wrecking crew of appellate law specialists are undefeated in this arena...

GOODBYE JUDGE ROSINEK

Posted on June 27, 2008
Today (Friday) is Judge Jeffrey Rosinek's last day on the bench. It's been quite a ride. We will miss him, as will all of Dade County. We are diminished by his absence. Stop by today and shake his hand; wish him well in retirement and while you're there, drop off a cheque for Friends Of Drug Court...

REMEMBERING JOE REYES

Posted on June 26, 2008
Woops: The DBR reported on Judge Jeri Beth Cohen's campaign faux pas: " Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jeri Beth Cohen, who is facing an election challenge, committed an ?unintentional violation? of a judicial canon by speaking at a Coral Gables Area Democratic Club meeting without her election opponent present, the Dade County Bar Association concluded...

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