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• THE FLORIDA BAR HAS THREATENED BLOGGER WILLIAM GELIN

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  You lose your rights, not with a bang, but with a whimper. One small encroachment after another. A bureaucrat pushes the edges here, a prosecutor challenges the boundaries in a few cases there. No one says or does anything and then you look up and suddenly a cherished right [...]
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• FREE ALEX MICHAELS!!!

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  UPDATE:
  After finding Alex Michaels in contempt, Judge Miranda denied a request to allow him to post a bond pending appeal. This is most disturbing. The sentence was two days jail. Without bond pending appeal there would be no way for Mr. Michaels to seek review of the conviction for [...]
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• SHOOTING VIDEO

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  If ever you needed to be reminded about what a dangerous job police officers have (not that this excuses them in the least from their awful and wide spread habit of prevarication) here is the video of the marijuana grow house video in which MDPD Detective John Saavedra is shot.
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• PHIL DAVIS CONVICTION AFFIRMED

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  . (Inmate Phil Davis)
  The year was 1992 when the name "courtbroom" broke across a  Miami. First a whisper, the courtbroom scandal- a federal investigation into Miami Circuit Judges selling court appointments for kickbacks- crested and broke upon Miami and  ravaged the reputation of the Miami legal community like Hurricane [...]
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• THE DEVIL IN JUDGE ALFRED NESBITT

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  The year was 1973. 
  The Dolphins beat the Redskins 14-7 to cap off the perfect season. 
  The next season, OJ Simpson became the first running back to rush for over 2,000 yards. 
  The World Trade Center opened in NYC. 
  A patent for the ATM was granted.
  Henry Kissenger became Secretary [...]
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• FACDL AWARDS HANDED OUT SATURDAY NIGHT

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  Mother Jones is doing a series on America's Worst Prisons:
  "Doing time is not supposed to include being raped by fellow prisoners or staff, beaten by guards for the slightest provocation, driven mad by long-term solitary confinement, or killed off by medical neglect. These, however, are the fates of thousands" [...]
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• DUFFELS FOR KIDS

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  Foster children start out with more strikes against them then most of us deal with in our entire life. Imagine growing up without parents, or being taken away from your parents because of abuse and spending your childhood in a never ending succession of stranger's homes until one day you [...]
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• ACLU AWARD FOR STEPHEN HARPER

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  The ACLU will be honoring former Dade PD, current FIU law professor, and all around good guy Stephen Harper Friday evening. Some details of the event are below. If we went to events (we're a notorious recluse) we would definitely go to this one. 
  
  The Greater Miami Chapter of' [...]
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• IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT.....

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  Heat fan said...1-1.
  
  What is Rumpole going to say today about his beloved team to hate. We're the Heat actually winning that game by 46 points at one point. Ah, yes they were Horace
  
  Did the Heat actually go on a 62-20 run in the middle of the game.' [...]
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• LSA

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  Miami Dade ASA Caycie Blake Flitman was arrested on Tuesday for Leaving the Scene Of An Accident. 
  
  The Herald article is here.
  
  
  Expectorating in Public:
  Expectorating in public is a crime. 
  Expectorating on a prosecutor is shameful and should not be tolerated in any manner or [...]
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