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Jan 23 2012

The Florida Bar – Daily News Summary

Tag: Criminal Law — Andrew @ 6:13 am

An electronic digest of media coverage of interest to members of The Florida Bar compiled each workday by the Public Information and Bar Services Department. Electronic links are only active in today’s edition. For information on previous articles, please contact the publishing newspaper directly.

Jan. 18, 2012

–The Florida Bar–

ATTORNEY ROSEMARY E. ARMSTRONG TO RECEIVE TOBIAS SIMON PRO BONO SERVICE AWARD ON 30 YEAR ANNIVERSARY– The Florida Bar, press release, http://www.floridabar.org, Jan. 17, 2012. [Also: 21 FLORIDA LAWYERS TO RECEIVE PRO BONO AWARDS-- The Florida Bar, press release, http://www.floridabar.org, Jan. 17, 2012].
Tampa attorney Rosemary E. Armstrong is the recipient of the 2012 Tobias Simon Pro Bono Service Award, the highest statewide pro bono award. The award will be presented by Chief Justice Charles T. Canady at a Jan. 26 ceremony at the Supreme Court of Florida in Tallahassee. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Tobias Simon Pro Bono Service Award. The Florida Bar will also recognize 21 other lawyers with the President’s Pro Bono Award for their work on behalf of poor and indigent clients. In addition, the St. Lucie County Bar Association is the recipient of

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Jan 22 2012

The Florida Bar – Daily News Summary

Tag: Criminal Law — Andrew @ 6:01 am

An electronic digest of media coverage of interest to members of The Florida Bar compiled each workday by the Public Information and Bar Services Department. Electronic links are only active in today’s edition. For information on previous articles, please contact the publishing newspaper directly.

Jan. 19, 2012

–The Florida Bar–

FLORIDA BAR HONORS BARTON, ARMSTRONG FOR PRO BONO SERVICE– Tampa Bay Business Journal, http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay, Jan. 19, 2012. [Also: FLORIDA BAR TO HONOR THREE LOCAL ATTORNEYS AND A GAINESVILLE LAW FIRM-- The Gainesville Sun, Jan. 18, 2012; FLORIDA BAR HONORS BARTOW WOMAN WORKING AS PRO BONO LAWYER-- The Ledger, http://www.theledger.com, Jan. 18, 2012; FLORIDA BAR HONORS BAXA, WELLS, TORRES FOR PRO BONO SERVICE-- Orlando Business Journal, http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando, Jan. 19, 2012; TWO JACKSONVILLE ATTORNEYS HONORED FOR PRO BONO WORK-- Jacksonville Business Journal, http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville, Jan. 19, 2012; LOCAL BRIEFS: ATTORNEY RECOGNIZED FOR WORK WITH POOR-- The Bradenton Herald, http://www.bradenton.com, Jan. 19, 2012].
The articles highlight local attorneys who will receive awards from The Florida Bar in recognition of their pro bono service. The Pro Bono awards will be presented at

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Jan 21 2012

The Florida Bar – Daily News Summary

Tag: Criminal Law — Andrew @ 5:51 am

An electronic digest of media coverage of interest to members of The Florida Bar compiled each workday by the Public Information and Bar Services Department. Electronic links are only active in today’s edition. For information on previous articles, please contact the publishing newspaper directly.

Jan. 20, 2012

–Legislature–

AN INJUSTICE– The Miami Herald, editorial, http://www.miamiherald.com, Jan. 20, 2012.
The editorial states: “In Florida, one of the three co-equal branches of government is a lot less equal when it comes to funding. The court system is at the mercy of an unpredictable source of revenue. . . . According to Scott Hawkins, president of The Florida Bar, the courthouse in Palm Beach County came within a hair’s breadth of shutting down its civil side because there was not enough money to continue operation. Both the state court system and the clerks of the court had to take a loan from the executive branch to fill out their 2010-11 budgets. That’s absurd. . . . A panel of judges and court clerks, the Revenue Stabilization Workgroup, recommends that the courts and court-related functions — court reporters and interpreters, in addition to judges, be funded consistently from general revenue

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Jan 19 2012

Court reverses jury award of nearly $1 million to former TV reporter – Sun

Tag: Criminal Law — Andrew @ 11:31 am

A jury award of nearly $1 million to former WSVN-Fox 7 health reporter Marilyn Mitzel for age discrimination at the hands of station management was wiped out Wednesday by an appellate court.

The Third District Court of Appeal reversed the 2010 jury finding that Sunbeam Television Corp., WSVN’s owner, fired Mitzel three years earlier because she was too old for television, and ordered a Miami-Dade court to reconsider the case.

The appellate court ruled that the trial judge shouldn’t have allowed Mitzel to add a charge of sex discrimination to her lawsuit late in the case. And it was harshly critical of an expert witness who testified on Mitzel’s behalf, saying her “testimony reached beyond the scope of this case to come

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Jan 18 2012

Dade jury awards parents of girl $3 million in abuse case at day-care

Tag: Criminal Law — Andrew @ 11:21 pm

A Miami-Dade jury has awarded a $3-million verdict to a 9-year-old girl whose family said she was the victim of sexual abuse at a day-care center.

The girl’s lawyers said she was molested multiple times in 2008, when she was 5 years old, at Discovery Day Care, 3153 SW 67th Ave.

Her attacker, they said, was the 13-year-old son of the center’s then-director. The youth was left alone with the children during nap time.

The center’s lawyer denied the allegations.

After hearing both sides, the jury found that Discovery was negligent.

“This girl’s youth was stolen from her,” said attorney Jeff Herman, whose firm announced the verdict Wednesday. “They could see this previously was a very carefree young girl who’s now in this trauma.”

The center’s lawyer, Donald Hardeman, said Discovery will fight the ruling and ask for a new trial. If a new trial isn’t granted, the center will appeal.

“We think the judge allowed some subject matter into evidence that we think was erroneous and prejudicial,” Hardeman said.

The civil suit was filed in 2009 and asked that the center be held responsible for

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Jan 18 2012

Miami federal case lurks over Florida redistricting work

Tag: Criminal Law — Andrew @ 11:14 am

TALLAHASSEE — Lawyers in Miami representing the Florida House, U.S. Reps. Corrine Brown and Mario Diaz-Balart, state House and Senate Democrats, and voting-rights groups squared off in an ongoing legal fight last week over the Fair Districts standards the Legislature is using now to draw new congressional maps.

The lawsuit brought by Brown, D-Jacksonville, and Diaz-Balart, R-Miami, has been largely overshadowed by the redistricting drama playing out in Tallahassee today. It specifically challenges whether Amendment 6 dealing with congressional lines intrudes on the federal constitutional relationship between Congress and the state Legislature, which is tasked with re-drawing them. Miami Judge Ursula Ungaro ruled last fall that voters had the right to place the new anti-gerrymandering standards on lawmakers, and the Brown/Diaz-Balart legal team appealed.

But if the federal appeals court sides with the two congressional members and House Speaker Dean Cannon, who has joined in the challenge, it could throw a serious monkey wrench into the process of negotiating final maps.

At least, that’s the hope of the chief lawyer for Brown and Diaz-Balart, Stephen Cody.

Cody said he expects the court to rule as soon as two weeks from now. If the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the lower judge, state

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Jan 17 2012

Bank foreclosing on OJ Simpson’s Florida house

Tag: Criminal Law — Andrew @ 11:06 pm

(AP) MIAMI — Like tens of thousands of other Florida homeowners, imprisoned former football star O.J. Simpson is in danger of losing his house to foreclosure.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court records show that JPMorgan Chase filed for foreclosure in September on the four-bedroom, four-bath house south of downtown Miami. Simpson’s attorney has since filed a motion to dismiss the case, but there has been no further action since November.

Simpson bought the 4,233-square-foot house in 2000 for $575,000, property records show. Its current assessed value is $478,401, with property taxes of about $9,000. The 2011 taxes were paid in December.

The 64-year-old former football star and actor is serving a nine-to-33-year prison sentence stemming from a 2007 armed confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas casino hotel room. Simpson was convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges. He is appealing the conviction.

Simpson was acquitted in 1995 in the Los Angeles slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. A civil jury in California later ordered Simpson to pay $33.5 million for Goldman’s wrongful death. The attorney for Goldman’s father, Fred Goldman, said Monday the bankruptcy case played directly into the Simpson foreclosure.

“No surprise at all,” said

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Jan 16 2012

Bank foreclosing on OJ Simpson’s Florida house while he serves prison time in …

Tag: Criminal Law — Andrew @ 10:46 pm

Simpson bought the 4,233-square-foot house in 2000 for $575,000, property records show. Its current assessed value is $478,401, with property taxes of about $9,000. The 2011 taxes were paid in December.

The 64-year-old former football star and actor is serving a nine-to-33-year prison sentence stemming from a 2007 armed confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas casino hotel room. Simpson was convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges. He is appealing the conviction.

Simpson was acquitted in 1995 in the Los Angeles slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. A civil jury in California later ordered Simpson to pay $33.5 million for Goldman’s wrongful death. The attorney for Goldman’s father, Fred Goldman, said Monday the bankruptcy case played directly into the Simpson foreclosure.

“No surprise at all,” said David J. Cook, the Goldman attorney in San Francisco who has spent years trying to collect the judgment.

Simpson received $750,000 in 2007 for a book ghostwritten under his name titled “If I Did It,” Cook said. A Florida bankruptcy judge eventually awarded rights to the book to Goldman, who released it. Cook said it sold some 150,000 copies.

About $350,000 of Simpson’s money went to pay down

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Jan 16 2012

judge’s schedule: 300 foreclosure cases in 3 days

Tag: Criminal Law — Andrew @ 10:39 am

For three days starting Tuesday, Seminole County Chief Circuit Judge Alan Dickey has scheduled 300 foreclosure cases.

“If everybody shows up, I’ll have about 30 seconds a case,” said the judge, who expressed disappointment with the state Legislature’s decision to end funding for retired judges who were helping deal with a growing backlog.

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Jan 15 2012

The Florida Bar – Daily News Summary

Tag: Criminal Law — Andrew @ 4:25 am

An electronic digest of media coverage of interest to members of The Florida Bar compiled each workday by the Public Information and Bar Services Department. Electronic links are only active in today’s edition. For information on previous articles, please contact the publishing newspaper directly.

Jan. 12, 2012

–The Florida Bar–

MARCH APPOINTMENT TO BE FILLED– The Florida Bar, press release, http://www.floridabar.org, Jan. 10, 2012.
The Florida Bar Board of Governors is seeking applicants for a following vacancy on the Supreme Court’s Bar Admissions Committee to be filled during its March 23 meeting. One lawyer will serve a two-year term commencing July 1. This committee coordinates the work of the bench, bar, law schools and bar examiners. Completed applications must be submitted to the Bar’s executive director’s office in Tallahassee no later than close of business Wednesday, Feb. 22.

–Legislature–

STABLE REVENUE SOUGHT FOR COURT SYSTEM– The News-Press, http://www.news-press.com, Jan. 12, 2012.
The recurring need for emergency loans to keep state courts afloat may cease if Gov. Rick Scott’s budget proposal to fund the courts with $280 million from the general fund instead of foreclosure fees becomes reality. The courts have been operating

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