Assistant PD accuses judge of refusing her request for nursing breaks during trial
An assistant public defender is accusing a Florida judge of refusing her request for nursing breaks every three to four hours during an upcoming trial.
Assistant PD Marissa Altman Glatzer tells the Daily Business Review (sub. req.) that Judge Fred Seraphin of Miami-Dade County turned down her request during a hearing on June 15, when he was setting the case for trial the next day.
According to Glatzer, Seraphin interrupted her as she was making the request and said he doesn’t give trial breaks. “He said, ‘Just get another attorney to try the case,’ ” she told the Daily Business Review. “I said, ‘I can’t get another attorney.’ He said, ‘I don’t care. It’s not my business how your office assigns cases.’ ”
Glatzer says she learned the next day that the trial was continued.
Seraphin told the Daily Business Review the incident was a miscommunication and it didn’t occur as Glatzer described it. “I was raised by a single mother with sisters,” he told the publication.
