FEDS TO FUND NEW JUSTICE BUILDING

Miami is starting to reap the benefits of Mayor Gimenez's rapid capitulation to Miami not being a sanctuary city. The City and the feds announced over the weekend a thirty-two million dollar grant to fund ground breaking on a new criminal courthouse.  Parking-lot 26,  which adjoins the side of the old courthouse, will be the site of the new courthouse (tentatively to be named the Jefferson Beauregard Sessions Miami Justice Center). When the new courthouse opens, the REGB will be imploded and a modern ten story parking garage will be built which will have room for police, lawyers and witnesses. There are plans, starting in 2020, to open a small mall in the public parking lot across from the courthouse which will include office space, an LA Fitness, retail and fine dinning. 

Things are looking up. 

However things are also looking down. 

Fresh on the success of the State Speedy trial rule allowing prosecutors to demand a speedy trial, the legislature is now looking at bills that will allow victims to file charges (the Victim Vengeance Act); file sentencing enhancements (The Victim Full Justice Act); and for individual victims to move the court to revoke a defendant's release (The Victims Safe Streets and Homes Act).

Well, maybe the new mall will have a bar to drink in.

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