Showing posts with label Judge Victoria Brennan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Judge Victoria Brennan. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 01, 2017
JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS: 3RD DCA & CIRCUIT COURT
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
SO, YOU WANT TO BE A JUDGE .....
ON THE CIRCUIT COURT:
There were a total of 15 applicants to replace Judge Victoria Brennan on the Circuit Court. Of those, 11 are scheduled for interviews on February 14, 2017. They are:
9:30 a.m. Raul A. Cuervo
9:50 a.m. Jason Dimitris
10:10 a.m. Spencer J. Multack
11:10 a.m. Milena Abreu
11:30 a.m. Andrea Ricker Wolfson
11:50 a.m. Lourdes Simon
12:10 p.m. Norman Christopher Powell
1:30 p.m. Luis Perez-Medina
1:50 p.m. Joseph J. Mansfield
2:10 p.m. Ariel Rodriguez
2:30 p.m. Ayana Harris
Ramiro Christen Areces, Marilyn Blumberg, Carlos Alberto Lopez, Jr., and Michele A. Vargas were all bypassed for personal interviews.
ON THE 3rd DCA:
Governor Scott will be naming Judge Frank Shepherd's replacement, likely by next Friday, February 10, 2017. The six finalists include:
John A. Greco
Judge Norma S. Lindsey
Fleur J. Lobree
Judge Robert J. Luck
Judge Bronwyn C. Miller
Oren Rosenthal
SCOTUS:
And then there was the perfectly scripted roll out of Trump's SCOTUS nominee to replace Justice Scalia, all done in prime-time on National TV. DOM covers it here: and Bloomberg covers the story on how the White House kept it all a secret
CAPTAIN OUT .....
Captain4Justice@gmail.com
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Sunday, December 11, 2016
JUDGE BRENNAN RESIGNS!
BREAKING: Judicial rotations:
Here is what has been released- first, the resignation of Brennan has thrown the judiciary a curve ball. For the moment, Judge Sayfie who has been covering the division will stay in there, although reports of Judge Mindy Glazer being on the bench with Sayfie have been filtering in.
Judge Fine from dependency replaces judge Bloch, who exits stage left into the ether. Presumably Bloch will apply for Brennan's seat, and you know what? His name should be sent to the governor. He didn't win, and he didn't run the best race and the lawsuits were a colossal error, but the electorate got the vote wrong because he is more qualified by a mile than his successor. Which is the same thing we could say about Presidents 44 and 45, but that's for another day.
Judge Hanzman from civil switches with Judge Ruiz. Be nice to Judge Hanzman. He's wicked smart and was a legendary litigator and he will pick up criminal very quickly.
Judge Trawick to family, but no one in family has drawn a short straw to come to the REGJB, so the timing of this is still not set.
Judge Vicki Brennan, whose career has spanned being an Assistant State Attorney, Counsel to Governor Jeb Bush, and Circuit Court Judge, has resigned.
We have this confirmed from two separate sources.
Brennan suffered through a minor scandal this summer involving her actions in a personal matter in the Keys.
There are second acts in America, and Judge Brennan will certainly find her footing and re-emerge, as either the superb lawyer she once was, or in some other form of public service.
We are all human and we all make mistakes, and none of those things detract from our fundamental worth and value to ourselves, our family, and our community. Sometimes Judges and prosecutors lose sight of this. Only age and experience can allow someone to view an individual's actions through the lens of time.
We thank Judge Brennan for her service and we wish her well, fully knowing she has many more years of success before her.
It seems a bit silly in light of this post, but here are the survivor picks:
Lew and Lurvey go with the Vikes over Jax, while RFFJ picks the Falcons to beat the Rams.
For the first time this year, we can say that we may have a winner in the survivor pool! Good luck all.
See You In Court.
Here is what has been released- first, the resignation of Brennan has thrown the judiciary a curve ball. For the moment, Judge Sayfie who has been covering the division will stay in there, although reports of Judge Mindy Glazer being on the bench with Sayfie have been filtering in.
Judge Fine from dependency replaces judge Bloch, who exits stage left into the ether. Presumably Bloch will apply for Brennan's seat, and you know what? His name should be sent to the governor. He didn't win, and he didn't run the best race and the lawsuits were a colossal error, but the electorate got the vote wrong because he is more qualified by a mile than his successor. Which is the same thing we could say about Presidents 44 and 45, but that's for another day.
Judge Hanzman from civil switches with Judge Ruiz. Be nice to Judge Hanzman. He's wicked smart and was a legendary litigator and he will pick up criminal very quickly.
Judge Trawick to family, but no one in family has drawn a short straw to come to the REGJB, so the timing of this is still not set.
Judge Vicki Brennan, whose career has spanned being an Assistant State Attorney, Counsel to Governor Jeb Bush, and Circuit Court Judge, has resigned.
We have this confirmed from two separate sources.
Brennan suffered through a minor scandal this summer involving her actions in a personal matter in the Keys.
There are second acts in America, and Judge Brennan will certainly find her footing and re-emerge, as either the superb lawyer she once was, or in some other form of public service.
We are all human and we all make mistakes, and none of those things detract from our fundamental worth and value to ourselves, our family, and our community. Sometimes Judges and prosecutors lose sight of this. Only age and experience can allow someone to view an individual's actions through the lens of time.
We thank Judge Brennan for her service and we wish her well, fully knowing she has many more years of success before her.
It seems a bit silly in light of this post, but here are the survivor picks:
Lew and Lurvey go with the Vikes over Jax, while RFFJ picks the Falcons to beat the Rams.
For the first time this year, we can say that we may have a winner in the survivor pool! Good luck all.
See You In Court.
Monday, September 12, 2016
" ???" TO THE FEDS?
The federal bench for the southern district of Florida is "littered" populated with a liberal dose of former State Court REGJB Judges. From former Chief Judge Federico Moreno, to Ursula Ungaro, Joan Leonard, Beth Bloom, Cecilia Altonaga, Bob Scola, and Darrin Gayles, the REGJB has been a feeder to the federal bench. And while we strive to forget the courthouse to the north, Broward has contributed three fine additions to the SDFLA: Judges Cohn, Rosenbaum and Dimitrouleas.
So our question today is....who's next? Who has that rare combination of talent and political pull to garner an appointment and lifetime job of lunches at Joes and sentencing enhancements for the unpardonable sin of going to trial and losing? It's a good gig if you can get it.
It's Over Johnny...
The puzzling, unexpected, and sad saga of L'Affair Brennan ala Florida Keys has concluded with the decision not to charge her son with a DUI (Herald article here)-the event that precipitated the Rube Goldbergesque chain of events that ended with an arrest warrant for a circuit judge.
Truth is stranger than fiction. And Miami truths are stranger than all.
See you in court.
So our question today is....who's next? Who has that rare combination of talent and political pull to garner an appointment and lifetime job of lunches at Joes and sentencing enhancements for the unpardonable sin of going to trial and losing? It's a good gig if you can get it.
It's Over Johnny...
The puzzling, unexpected, and sad saga of L'Affair Brennan ala Florida Keys has concluded with the decision not to charge her son with a DUI (Herald article here)-the event that precipitated the Rube Goldbergesque chain of events that ended with an arrest warrant for a circuit judge.
Truth is stranger than fiction. And Miami truths are stranger than all.
See you in court.
Monday, August 15, 2016
BRENNAN BROUHAHA
Update: Take our new Judge Brennan poll.
This story was broken by David Ovalle of the Herald
This story was broken by David Ovalle of the Herald
While angrily trying to boot her teen son’s drunk pals from her Key Largo home, police say a Miami judge used a metal pipe to smash the windshield of one young man’s pickup truck.
The episode led to a strange South Florida legal saga — for most of July, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Victoria Brennan quietly was facing an arrest warrant for criminal mischief in Monroe County, a period when she briefly sat on the bench presiding over criminal cases.
At a hearing last week, a Key West judge stayed the filing of the arrest warrant, putting the case in limbo after Monroe prosecutors decided to opt out of the investigation. Florida’s governor has now assigned Lee County prosecutors to review the case. Even if the case dissolves, Brennan could still face scrutiny over whether she properly disclosed to superiors and defendants that she was facing a criminal case while ruling on criminal cases.
On July 7, the Monroe County State Attorney’s Office “gave verbal OK” to have the arrest warrant signed, the report said. Key West Circuit Judge Timothy Koenig signed the warrant for second-degree misdemeanor criminal mischief.
The warrant, however, was not — and has still not been — entered into the clerk of court’s system. It was unclear Monday why the document was not filed immediately, which is standard in criminal cases.
Rumpole says: Judge Brennan is a good judge and we hope she will remain a judge.
This however, is a lesson in humanity for all of us, including those of us who judge or prosecute others- "Let she who has not sinned, cast the first stone."
We are all human. The best of us, have bad days where we do something, upon reflection, that we regret. Such transgressions should not prevent a person from serving and serving honorably when they have done so in the past. We hope this is quickly and amicably resolved.
See you in court, where we often represent good people who are being seen on their worst day.
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