Miami Divorce Attorney – Andrew Boros, Esq

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MIAMI –  Court records show George Zimmerman had a pair of black eyes, a nose fracture and two cuts to the back of his head after the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

ABC News reports (http://abcn.ws/K3tcvN ) the medical records were part of evidence released Tuesday that prosecutors have in the second-degree murder case against Zimmerman. He has entered a plea of not guilty and claims self-defense in the Feb. 26 shooting. A message left Tuesday evening with Zimmerman’s attorney was not immediately returned.

Zimmerman was treated Feb. 27 at Altamonte Family Practice. A phone call made Tuesday evening to the practice rang unanswered.

Some of the injuries were previously reported by The Associated Press based on video of Zimmerman at a jail sally port.

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Article source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/16/records-detail-george-zimmerman-medical-injuries/

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NEW YORK — A Canadian actress accused of stalking Alec Baldwin was upbeat Monday about the case as her lawyer said she had a legitimate reason for contacting the star.

“I’m confident that my lawyers are going to solve this,” Genevieve Sabourin said after a brief, procedural appearance in a Manhattan court.

Baldwin, 54, and Sabourin, 40, met on the set of the 2002 sci-fi comedy “The Adventures of Pluto Nash,” in which he had a cameo and she was a publicist. Baldwin told authorities they had dinner together in the fall of 2010.

Sabourin was arrested last month after authorities said she sent the “30 Rock” star a series of emails imploring him to see and to marry her – emails allegedly sent days after Baldwin became engaged to yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas.

One of Sabourin’s messages envisioned the actor as her future “husband,” while another described “creating Genevieve Baldwin,” the complaint said. Authorities said she also showed up at a screening he was hosting and at Baldwin’s apartment building, where she was arrested April 8 on misdemeanor stalking and harassment charges.

“I just came over to see Alec because I need to speak

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Article source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120514/us-alec-baldwin-stalking-case/

In the early morning of May 3, 2009, auto insurance mogul Nicolas Estrella’s 80-foot yacht was stolen from the dock next to his Mediterranean mansion on Key Biscayne.

Last week, state insurance fraud detectives arrested the vessel’s former boat captain, Robert Figueredo, on charges of stealing Star One — before he allegedly sank it off the Bahamas.

But the case does not involve a routine theft, according to the insurance company that refuses to pay Estrella’s $3 million claim for the loss of his Azimut yacht. In a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by Estrella, Federal Insurance Co. in turn has accused him of collaborating with Figueredo to purposely sink Star One to collect a big insurance payout.

Estrella, 60, who founded Estrella Insurance in 1978 and built it into an insurance powerhouse, strongly denies Federal’s accusation “essentially alleging fraud,” saying in court papers that “he did not do this or pay to have the boat sunk.”

Estrella’s civil attorney, Robert Burlington, said his client “is a victim of theft and a victim of an insurance company that has three million

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Article source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/13/2798132/founder-of-miamis-estrella-insurance.html

In the crowded and stuffy lobby of Miami’s downtown civil courthouse, more than a dozen weary people milled in line, just to turn in a yellow form requesting access to files.

Some were told to come back in 48 hours to fetch their documents. Others learned that the records they needed were missing.

Law firm runner Bryan Lopez needed just two files from the bowels of the old Miami courthouse at 73. W. Flagler St. Wait time: two hours.

“It’s not the employees. They don’t have sufficient number of people,” Lopez complained. “I’m told there is only one person downstairs and they didn’t have time to look for it.”

For courthouse denizens, service at the Miami-Dade clerk’s office has been a perennial sore spot. But in recent years, with government cuts and added burdens to dwindling personnel, observers say the pace of justice has slowed to a grind.

And justice is about to get a lot slower.

Unless lawmakers pony up $31 million before July 1 — money quietly slashed from clerks offices at the end of the past session — clerks of courts offices statewide are girding

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Article source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/12/2796471/cuts-would-strain-south-florida.html

Miami filmmaker Billy Corben, under scrutiny for sending social media messages while on jury duty, will have to face a judge to explain his actions.

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jose Fernandez on Friday ordered Corben to appear in court to explain why he sent out Twitter and Facebook messages despite a court order against using social media during a February trial.

Corben, maker of the Miami-based documentaries Cocaine Cowboys and The U, served as the foreperson on the jury that convicted Angelo Williams of armed robbery. Williams’ lawyer is asking for a new trial, saying Corben’s social-media use tainted the conviction.

Corben’s lawyer, David O. Markus, a fellow Twitter user, told The Miami Herald: “I can defend Billy in 140 characters or less: He absolutely did nothing wrong.”

The judge issued a “rule to show cause” for Corben to explain in person why he should not be held in contempt of court for sending out the social media messages. The court will also try to determine if the Twitter-and-Facebook episode “prejudiced” Corben before he deliberated Williams’ case.

The contempt hearing was initially set for

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Article source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/11/2794704/miami-dade-judge-orders-filmmaker.html

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —
Florida’s 20 charter counties can impose term limits on their elected officials, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

The justices receded from an earlier opinion against such restrictions on how long sheriffs, court clerks and other local constitutional officers can serve.

In a pair of new opinions in cases from Broward and Sarasota counties, the justices unanimously agreed that term limits also can be placed on county commissioners or equivalent officials, who arguably were not covered by the prior ruling.

The 2002 decision “undermines the ability of counties to govern themselves as that broad authority has been granted to them by home rule powers through the Florida Constitution,” the justices wrote in the unsigned Broward opinion.

Broward and Sarasota are among 10 counties that have term limits for commissioners. The others are Brevard, Clay, Duval, Hillsborough, Orange, Palm Beach, Polk and Volusia. A term limit proposal is on the Nov. 6 ballot in Miami-Dade County.

The high court’s 4-3 decision 10 years ago struck down term limits for Jacksonville’s consolidated city-county government. Voters in 1992 passed charter amendments

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Article source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/10/2792871/florida-justices-uphold-charter.html

WASHINGTON —
An academic analysis finds that the federal appeals court in Washington has effectively blunted a 2008 Supreme Court decision giving terrorist suspects held at the Guantánamo Bay prison camps the right to contest their confinement.

The study by Seton Hall University law professors says the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has largely blocked efforts by the detainees to win their freedom by ordering lower court judges to take a more accepting view of the government’s evidence justifying their continued imprisonment.

The report says that since a key appeals court decision in 2010, only one of the dozen detainees whose cases were heard by federal trial court judges in Washington won a court order for his release. And that order was later overturned by appellate judges.

In the past two years, “a clear pattern has now emerged: Almost no detainees will prevail at the district court level, and if any do, the D.C. Circuit will likely reverse the decision to grant them relief,” the report said.

So far, the Supreme Court has declined to

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Article source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/09/2791389/report-appeals-court-chokes-off.html

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —
Attorneys for three immigrants urged the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday to throw out their guilty pleas to felony charges because defense lawyers failed to warn them the result would be almost certain deportation.

They cited a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision in a Kentucky case that says failing to give immigrants such advice violates their constitutional right to effective counsel.

Benjamin Waxman, a lawyer for Leduan Diaz, urged the justices to heed the words of one of their predecessors, William Glenn Terrell, who served on the high court for 41 years until his death in 1964.

“It is better to eat crow than to perpetuate error,” Waxman quoted from one of Terrell’s opinions.

One question the justices are trying to answer is whether the U.S. Supreme Court ruling is retroactive to pleas entered before it was handed down.

Another is whether a broader warning given by Florida judges that defendants “may” face deportation is strong enough to offset defense lawyers’ failure to give clients accurate advice or any at all.

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Davenport argued against retroactivity

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Article source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/08/2788945/florida-supreme-court-hearing.html