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• New Judge For Zimmerman -

  An appellate court has ordered Judge Kenneth Lester to recuse himself and directed the chief circuit judge to name a replacement after George Zimmerman's lawyer Mark O'Mara accused Lester of bias against his client.
  
  Zimmerman, a mixed-race Latino, faces one count of second-degree murder for the death of' [...]
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• Last Gasp of Summer -

  August, when many people go
  on vacation, is usually a quiet month in the Press.
  
  Especially just before Labor Day, people often
  skip reading newspapers altogether.
  
  That's when the British tradition of Silly Season comes to the rescue, but reporter Jason Rodrigues tells us that [...]
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• Browsing Around (5#) -

  Quirke, the Banville detective, is going to make his television debut in a new series from BBC One. Gabriel Byrne of
  The Usual Suspects fame will portray the character.
  
  # Dorothy B Hughes, a forgotten Mystery writer, is the subject of a recent blog entry by [...]
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• News Notes From Florida (3#) -

  George Zimmerman's attorney has filed a motion asking for a modification of bond conditions so that Zimmerman is not required to remain in Seminole County.
  
  # A sneaker flea market dealing in
  limited edition athletic shoes has raised the ire
  of residents living in one Miami [...]
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• From Weekend Browsing -

  How did an Englishman who was a product of Dulwich College in the UK become one of the most eminent Mystery authors in the United States?
  
  Just in time for the revival of Private Eye Philip Marlowe comes a new biographical study of author Raymond Chandler, A Mysterious [...]
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• Some Loose Lit Links -

  Judith Flanders shares some moody background on Benjamin Black, the alter ego of John Banville. I think it might be a mistake to take it too literally, though, since the new Philip Marlowe story would be a Neo-Noir.
  
  # Eve Bowen tells us about a large
  compilation [...]
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• Are These Streets Still Mean? -

  Humphrey Bogart is a hard act
  to follow; so is Raymond Chandler . . .
  
  When last we heard of the Private Detective Philip Marlowe, he was being portrayed by Powers Boothe in an old HBO production which was broadcast on a subchannel of one of Florida's' [...]
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• Weekend Browsing -

  A case that started in a Miami hotel room in 1986 involving Krishna Maharaj and Derrick Moo Young is the basis for the book Injustice by Clive Stafford Smith, a book about the death penalty in America.
  
  :: Reviewed here by Michael Burleigh.
  
  # The City of Brighton: [...]
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• Chameleon Raises Suspicions-

  Last week, a 52-year-old Cuban-born man with family in Miami was pulled over on a traffic stop in Central Florida and charged with driving without a valid license and violating his probation in a grand theft case.
  
  At the police station, a police officer observed that Roy Antigua's military [...]
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• A Trayvon Flurry (4#) -

  The psychological warfare against residents of the gated community in Sandford within which George and Shellie Zimmerman lived continues. A new memorial to the teen visitor Trayvon Martin has been set up nearby, but we have not been given a context photo that gives us a sense of its whereabouts [...]
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