Will the Sun Sentinel endorse McLawrence? - that question would have been easy to answer before Lynn Feig-Rosenthal crashed her car, got arrested, refused drug testing, played games with her mug shot, refused to comment on whether the property receipt MEDS could have contributed to her erratic behavior, and failed to assure the community she's ok to decide peoples' fates while the DUI accusation is pending. But now that a character issue has helped define the race for circuit court Group 8, the normally incumbent-loving Sentinel may be set to break with tradition and endorse the underdog. Don't believe it? Check out Tuesday's article here, following the editorial board's meet and greet with the candidates, and featuring the following quote by Jahra McLawrence:
"(W)hatever happened, she was about to take the bench, and she was about to rule on other people’s lives in that condition."
Rumor has it McLawrence may have already picked up some other key endorsements, so stay tuned ...
And the Judicial MVP Award goes too ... senior judge Fred Berman, for carrying two county court criminal divisions, and getting ready to pick up a third, on, get this, a part-time basis. And that's not all. He's whittled down Mary Robinson's division to a few hundred cases, to the point we're told Court Administration is getting ready to eliminate Division MM once and for all.
Quite a feat, but hardly a surprise to anyone familiar with Peter Weinstein's woefully inefficient county criminal courts. While there are many hard working and ambitious judges serving in the people's court, everyone knows there are others who are anything but. It's just a shame a veteran judge had to get sick for Berman to prove the point beyond a doubt. And if Weinstein would name a new Chief for county criminal to ensure an evenly distributed and efficiently managed workload, maybe he could withdraw this request for SIX new $134,000 a year county judges for Fiscal Year 2014/2015. They're your tax dollars, after all ...
Speaking of Mary - is she returning soon? That was the question lodged with Meredith Brooks, communication specialist for the 17th Circuit. She's promised to ask Weinstein, who's out of town for a few days. Wait and see ...
Thanks, Fred! - Fred Horowitz hasn't begged off his jury room responsibilities, thus far appearing every day this week as scheduled. No one can accuse him of aiding a fellow judge's reelection campaign, that's for sure. He's in there again Wednesday, with Jeff Levenson on deck for next week. Well done!
Daubert primer- Ira Still lays it all out in the most recent BACDL newsletter.
Coming Soon - Bob Norman drops a bomb; Mother Jones Magazine on Broward's PDO ...
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