Nov
27
Brummer not seeking re-election
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Miami-Dade Public Defender Bennett Brummer (above), who has held the office since 1977, will not seek re-election, according to a story in the Miami Herald.
”I’ve been thinking about [retiring] for many years. I wanted to leave when the office was at its strongest,” he said.
Rumpole at Justice Building Blog offers some commentary about Brummer and some of the grumblings he’s heard on his blog from assistant PDs.
Nov
21
A man who allegedly passed himself off as a Harvard law grad is in the Broward County jail on fraud charges. Police say Robert Charles Jones Brady, 26, told his “clients” that he was an expert in land use, according to a story in the Sun-Sentinel.
Brady’s attorney, Lawrence Livoti says his client never misled anyone.
“This is not a question of somebody working out of a warehouse with a desk and a lamp and a law book on his table. He dealt with clients, he was a consultant to land use and zoning,” he said. “If people misunderstood that, that’s regrettable.”
Nov
5
This is one of those cases you would have loved to have seen at trial. Instead, the woman who videotaped Circuit Judge Richard Wennet admiring a topless sunbather agreed to a plea deal and was released from prison after 83 days, according to a story in The Palm Beach Post.
Julie Ann Domotor had been charged with a felony for illegally recording Wennet’s voice without his consent. Domotor, who posted the video on YouTube, pled to a misdemeanor of unlawful interception of communications and was sentenced to time served.
Oct
25
The convicted killer who blamed his actions on Zoloft was back in court asking for a new trial,
saying that there is new information about the drug that wasn’t known when he was convicted in 1999.
His attorney, Roy Black (left), argued that new advisories and warnings show that violent behavior in teens and children is now a recognized side effect of Zoloft, according to a story in the Palm Beach Post.
“No one in 1999 knew the truth about this,” Black told Circuit Judge Gary Sweet this morning. “Not the FDA, the lawyers or the experts in this trial.”
Victor Brancaccio, now 30, was 16 when he was arrested for killing an elderly neighbor in Port St. Lucie. He was convicted in 1995 but received a new trial in 1999 at which time Black first used the Zoloft defense.
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