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Jose Padilla sentencing to start today

Posted on January 08, 2008
Any bets as to what Judge Cooke will impose? The early over-under line is 20 years. --David Oscar Markuswww.markuslaw.com305-379-6667

Standby Liberty City 7

Posted on January 07, 2008
Judge Lenard had to continue jury selection because of an emergency situation for one of the defense lawyers. Status conference on Wednesday.

Posted on January 07, 2008
It's now the Liberty City 6, and the retrial starts today, three weeks after the jury hung in the last trial.Here's coverage by the Herald and AP. What do you think is going to happen? Another mistrial? That's what some of the jurors from trial #1 think (from Jay Weaver's article): ''From now on, they are going to have a hung jury just as we did,'' said Jose Viola, 58, an audio-visual technician for Miami-Dade public schools, who sat on the first panel and thought all of the defendants were innocent...

District news

Posted on January 04, 2008
1. Steven Larimore is our new clerk of court.2. The Tower Building has been named the Clyde Atkins courthouse. For more on Judge Atkins, read here.

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Should an acquitted defendant, his wife and his lawyer be gagged

Posted on January 03, 2008
That's the issue raised in this morning's article by Vanessa Blum:A federal judge who declared a mistrial last month for six South Florida men charged with conspiring to support al-Qaida is taking aggressive steps to limit publicity related to the case, including silencing lawyers for a man the jury found not guilty...

Julie Kay on the new federal courthouse

Posted on January 02, 2008
This story isn't ending...Check this out.Here's an update on the lawsuit re Ted Klein, which is now being handled by Alan Goldfarb, not Ervin Gonzalez:The judges' move to the new building could free up space for occupants of the Dyer Building. Several magistrate clerks, courtroom deputies and interpreters who work in the building have complained of such respiratory problems as double pneumonia, nosebleeds and severe allergies...

Happy new year!

Posted on January 02, 2008
Back to work everyone...It's 2008.And it's cold today. We don't have a blogging message as cool as this:So, we'll just leave it at Happy New Year. Here's to a great 2008.

Rumors of my demise...

Posted on December 28, 2007
...have been greatly exaggerated.It's just that it's the deadest week of the year. EXCEPT IN STATE COURT! Are you kidding me? Yes, we have anonymous juries and explosions in buildings, but nothing like the Christmas Eve Massacre (reported by Rumpole).

Guinea pigs

Posted on December 24, 2007
According to today's DBR, the probation office will begin moving into the new Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. federal courthouse in January. But none of the other occupants (including judges) will start moving in yet.

Liberty City 7 update

Posted on December 21, 2007
Judge Lenard has ordered an anonymous jury in the next Liberty City 7 trial. (via Miami Herald). Very bad news for the defense.Here's the intro to the article:A federal judge on Friday aired concerns about the possibility of jury tampering in the upcoming retrial of an alleged homegrown terrorism group and ordered that Miami-Dade jurors be selected anonymously for the high-profile proceeding...

Jailhouse snitch?

Posted on December 20, 2007
Apparently someone at the federal jail claims that a defendant in the Joe Cool case confessed. Smells fishy to me. Here and here are the articles.

Holiday cards

Posted on December 19, 2007
The Wall Street Journal Blog likes Stearns Weaver's holiday card....The following text accompanies this picture:Past contributions by our firm have enabled the Daily Bread Food Bank to deliver over 1.3 million meals to those in need in our community.This year, we decided to contribute a truck to help make the deliveries a little easier...

Where in the world is Lyglenson Lemorin?

Posted on December 19, 2007
Check out this AP story, by Curt Anderson, about the one defendant who was acquitted in the Liberty City 7 case. Even when you win, you lose....A U.S. jury did not think Lyglenson Lemorin was involved in a terrorism conspiracy to topple Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices, but he did not walk out of court a free man...

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