2609 ABA Journal Florida articles.
In what a Miami newspaper describes as a macabre—and, so far, unique—game of cold-case poker in the nation’s prisons, authorities in Florida are spending $80,000 to print and deal out…
Jul 25, 2007 10:17 PM CDT
Jurors were questioned about their own personal masturbation habits today at the outset of a Florida trial in which they must determine if a 20-year-old inmate is guilty of masturbating…
Jul 25, 2007 9:54 PM CDT
A Florida couple has won a $21 million jury award over a misdiagnosis of their first child’s rare genetic defect that led them, they say, to have another child two…
Jul 24, 2007 8:30 PM CDT
A Florida judge has refused to impose the death penalty on a specific prisoner, following a botched 30-minute execution of another inmate on Dec. 13.
Ruling Sunday in Ocala, after…
Jul 24, 2007 5:18 PM CDT
Following a three-year investigation, six men have been arrested by Florida authorities and charged with racketeering and conspiracy in a home-repair scam that allegedly bilked at least 31 homeowners of…
Jul 20, 2007 9:47 PM CDT
Lots of attorneys and public relations executives help corporate clients lobby federal and state legislators for new laws. But Margaret Kessler had a different idea.
The south Florida marketing pro…
Jul 20, 2007 8:07 PM CDT
Persuaded by a lobbyist that Minouche Noel really needed the $8.5 million she had been awarded by a Florida jury for being paralyzed in a botched surgery, the state legislature…
Jul 19, 2007 7:21 PM CDT
A convicted child murderer is scheduled to be the first person put to death in Florida since the state suspended executions over concerns about its lethal injection procedure.
Mark Schwab…
Jul 19, 2007 2:54 PM CDT
A simmering controversy over a series of insensitive remarks recently made by Miami area judges has heated up further, following the resignation of a Broward County jurist chairing the court’s…
Jul 18, 2007 8:35 PM CDT
A Florida judge has been removed from a case for comparing a juvenile’s appearance to that of two teens who went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School.
Judge…
Jul 12, 2007 1:31 PM CDT
Did Arnold Levine rifle through the papers on a Florida judge’s desk? Or did he merely, as he claims, pick up a copy of a document that he had faxed…
Jul 11, 2007 8:24 PM CDT
A Florida attorney who allegedly carried a loaded gun into a Broward County courthouse in his briefcase has been removed as defense counsel in a murder case and charged with…
Jul 6, 2007 8:15 PM CDT
The former chief criminal judge in Broward County, Florida, has been cleared of misconduct for using the acronym NHI, short for “no humans involved,” after an April attempted murder trial…
Jul 3, 2007 9:02 PM CDT
A highly controversial book authored by fallen football hero O.J. Simpson that some considered his confession to the 1994 murders of his former wife, Nicole, and a male companion, Ron…
Jul 3, 2007 6:52 PM CDT
“Voluntary” pat-down searches of fans entering football stadiums do not violate the 4th Amendment prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizes, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decided today.
Ruling…
Jun 26, 2007 7:24 PM CDT
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