Subject: Florida Supreme Court

• Ken Jenne's Simple Plan

  June 1, 2006

• Bad Times Charlie

  July 4, 2008

• Some News For You

  July 10, 2008

• True Justice On "False Light"

  October 23, 2008

• Dead Man Waiting

  February 11, 1999

• These Are the Times That Try Victims' Souls

  November 26, 1998

• You Have the Right to Remain Flaccid

  February 25, 1999

• Undercurrents

  June 10, 1999

• Letters to the Editor

  December 7, 2000

• Undercurrents

  December 14, 2000

• Letters for May 9, 2002

  May 9, 2002

• Letters for September 12, 2002

  September 12, 2002

• Justice Severed

  Maharaj went from the high life to a life sentence — 20 years so far for a crime he may not have committed

  September 27, 2007

• Ambushed by Seminole Blackjack

  Shut Up and Shuffle

  July 10, 2008

• 10-S-N-E-1?

  Pay Through the Nose

  July 24, 2008

• Floridians Brace for Boring Weather Conversations; Prisoner Escapes by Using Dullness

  South Florida is under a windchill warning, and while I'm not a weatherman, it is currently so cold outside that I'm issuing a Boring Weather Conversation Alert. You're probably not familiar with the aforementioned and recently invented alert, so here's how it works: When the weather in Florida is mildly interesting, like a summer day when it doesn't rain, you will likely be stuck in at least one boring conversation about the weather. But when the weather deviates to its current witch's-tit cond

  February 5, 2009

• Capellini "Not Guilty"? We'll Be The Judge Of That

  Yesterday, the Juice blog published one of the deceptive headlines from one of ex-Deerfield Beach Mayor's Al Capellini's newest propaganda rag, the Deerfield Beach Dispatch. In huge letters, the headline says, "Capellini Cleared." In small letters, between those words are the crucial, if equally dubious, "will be." In addition to shenanigans like that, Capellini continues to refer to himself as the mayor, even though he's been removed from office by Charlie Crist after he was hi

  March 3, 2009

• Attorneys Gone Wild!

  Egarc2 / Ed Garcia Today the Florida Bar released a list of 35 attorneys disciplined for violating rules of professional conduct. Of the 35, ten are from Broward and Palm Beach Counties.1. William Abramson, of West Palm Beach. Abramson's case goes back to 2005, when he was defending a female client in criminal case before 15th Circuit Court Judge Richard Wennett.  During jury selection, Abramson called the judge "completely disrespectful, lacking in respect, lacking in professionalism." He

  March 19, 2009

• Seminoles: Senate Version of Compact, Please

  The Florida House and Senate have both drafted legislation that would dramatically alter the games at Seminole casinos. Either the Tribe's profits will take a huge leap back or huge leap forward.The House version scales back the games that the Tribe can offer, eliminating card games so that the casino's gambling draw would be slots -- and the Seminoles would have to pay the state $100 million annually just for the exclusive privilege to operate slots outside South Florida. (Pari-mutuels here can

  March 25, 2009

• Grand Jury: The Sword and the Shield

  Retired Sun-Sentinel reporter Joe Kollin sent the Pulp this serious piece of righteousness about the state grand jury. I'm going to go ahead and call for it: Grand jurors should fire State Attorney Michael Satz as their "legal advisor" and hire an attorney who wants to do the job instead.  Below is Kollin's important piece, which wasn't published by either the Miami Herald or his own former newspaper. Their loss.   ----------------------------------------------

  April 7, 2009

• Fool Me Thrice

  A South Florida company caught stealing twice surfaces under a new name and gets a lucrative government franchise.

  February 12, 2009

• Jack Don't Know Jack

  Why will the right-wing crusader likely lose his license? Swastikas are just the start.

  June 19, 2008

• Judge and Jury

  Judge Lazarus takes justice into his own hands in the Keith Wasserstrom trial

  September 13, 2007

• Storming the Castle

  Hallandale Beach and a Broward judge are trying to drive a man from his home

  August 23, 2007

• Wet Curtains

  Match Me Up

  March 29, 2007

• Ten Seconds to Eternity

  Can Jack Bauer escape certain death from an oncoming tanker?

  March 8, 2007

• A Politician Weeps

  Confronted with evidence of influence peddling, a school board member tearfully claims she'll quit her job.

  October 5, 2006

• Supreme Court Speaks; Will Gardiner Skate?

  So the Florida Supreme Court just accepted the State Attorney's motion to vacate the death penalty conviction of Omar Loureiro. Now we'll have a new murder trial, but there won't be an evidentiary hearing into the allegations against Judge Ana Gardiner. In other words, Gardiner, who broke judicial rules and lied about it under oath, might just skate. And the saga that involved a badly misbehaving judge and prosecutor, the death of a 45-year-old judge, lies under oath, Peyton Plac

  May 19, 2009

• City Bites Dog

  August 24, 2006

• See Dick Be Jane

  The country's youngest transgender child is ready for school. But is school ready for her?

  May 18, 2006

• Oh, Canada

  We objected to John Canada's abuse of power. But the state didn't.

  March 16, 2006

• Cash Cow

  A group of political opportunists is cashing in on the rural town of Southwest Ranches

  March 24, 2005

• Below the Bar

  This women's rights champion is still a tough broad fighting the system. But now it's to dodge debts.

  July 15, 2004

• GOPundit

  Oft-quoted USF Prof Susan MacManus is neutral. Yeah, right.

  June 17, 2004

• Justice Revised

  A new court ruling will make it harder to sit on corruption cases

  May 20, 2004

• Operation Baghdad

  A Senate hopeful on the lam is busy tracking Saddam

  July 31, 2003

• The Other Shaw

  Despite this guy's penchant for weird ideas and nasty insults, he has a shot

  October 31, 2002

• This Bad House

  The Nuisance Abatement Board’s war on blight has had some unintended casualties in West Palm Beach — most of them poor

  December 6, 2001

• A Potemkin Lawyer

  With Jorge Fernandez as your courtroom advocate, you may as well surrender

  October 25, 2001

• Train in Vain

  Millionaire Charles Croffard Dockery dreams of creating a high-speed bullet train in Florida. Sound crazy? Wait until you hear the details.

  January 25, 2001

• Minority Madness

  Wisecracking Democrats in Tallahassee were steamrollered during the presidential contest. But they didn't take it lying down.

  December 28, 2000

• It's Chad-tastic!

  A reporter plunges into the heart of electoral darkness in Broward County, only to see the light -- through a pricked chad

  November 30, 2000

• Let Me Kill Myself

  Before he dies of Lou Gehrig's disease, Phil Snaith wants to accomplish one final goal: force the state to allow assisted suicides

  June 22, 2000

• Lobbying Under the Influence

  There's nothing wrong with having a few drinks before you drive. So says David Heilman, Mr. Anti-DUI.

  September 23, 1999

• The Cover-Up: Judge Ana Gardiner Lied Under Oath

  If you haven't read Judge Ana Gardiner's transcript, you should. It says more about Broward County corruption than anything I could ever write. And it's clear that Gardiner has lied under oath and should be investigated and ultimately criminally charged for doing so.  The Florida Supreme Court ordered an investigation into Gardiner after I exposed the fact that she'd gone out on the town with the prosecutor in a death penalty case over which she was presiding. Not only d

  May 18, 2009

• Why She Did It

  May 28, 2009

• Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade allies with a dubious business partner

  July 9, 2009

• Then There Were Three (Candidates for U.S. Attorney in South Florida)

  The next U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida will be either David Buckner, Willy Ferrer, or Daryl Trawick. They were selected by the Judicial Nomination Commission following interviews this month of 16. All three finalists are members of Miami's legal community -- Buckner in private practice, Ferrer in the Miami-Dade's prosecutors office and Trawick a Dade Circuit Court judge. But the job they want covers the prosecution of federal crimes through Palm Beach County. All have been a

  July 24, 2009

• Death Penalty Case: Man Will Die August 19 for Dania Beach Murder

  John Marek​On August 19, 48-year-old John Marek will be put to death by the State of Florida unless there is a major last-minute intervention by the governor or the courts. In 1983, Marek and a friend, Raymond Wigley, drove to Florida from Texas. On June 16 of that year, the two men encountered two women whose car had broken down on the Turnpike. They offered Adella Simmons, a 40-something administrator at Barry University, a ride to a service station. Her friend stayed behind. The next morni

  August 3, 2009

• Cheers to the New Bulldog Blog in Town

  Flickr user: sabianmaggyThere's a new bulldog in town.​After 30 years in the South Florida news business, Dan Christensen isn't about to let one small layoff stop him from mining the bottomless pit of Broward County corruption.The veteran Daily Business Review and Miami Herald reporter has launched a new nonprofit investigative news site, Broward Bulldog, that aims to pick up where the ever-shrinking dailies leave off."We're gonna report the news and let the chips fall where they may," says

  October 30, 2009