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By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Closing arguments today in Ft. Lauderdale in USA v. Fitzroy Salesman. Salesman was a Miramar commissioner who allegedly took money from an undercover FBI agent flown in from Boston to play "the old man" as a developer looking to pay kickbacks to get Miramar construction projects. Attorney Jaime Benjamin, best known by most of us for representing adult clubs, is the lead defense attorney. David Markus is back blogging after spring break. The guys running the Broward Blog are apparently in Vegas. SUPREME COURT WATCH:While Supreme Court watchers wait for Stevens to retire, the Justice told reporter Robert Barnes of the Washington Post that he hoped that his earlier comment (to Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker) that he would decide on his plans for next year within thirty days ?wasn?t being treated as a statute of limitations,? ...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).