JUSTICE BUILDING BLOG

WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL RICHARD E GERSTEIN JUSTICE BUILDING BLOG. THIS BLOG IS DEDICATED TO JUSTICE BUILDING RUMOR, HUMOR, AND A DISCUSSION ABOUT AND BETWEEN THE JUDGES, LAWYERS AND THE DEDICATED SUPPORT STAFF, CLERKS, COURT REPORTERS, AND CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS WHO LABOR IN THE WORLD OF MIAMI'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE. POST YOUR COMMENTS, OR SEND RUMPOLE A PRIVATE EMAIL AT HOWARDROARK21@GMAIL.COM. Winner of the prestigious Cushing Left Anterior Descending Artery Award.

Friday, July 26, 2024

BEST PLACES TO TRY A CASE

 Where are the best places to try a case? 

In no particular order:

Southern District of New York. Walking into the Thurgood Marshall courthouse always gives us chills. Downside- many of the courtrooms are small and in a lot of them the defense sits behind the prosecution. Of course that allows us to make faces at them without them seeing it. Additional plus- walking distance from Chinatown and Wo Hops. And nothing cooler than riding a Citi bike from our hotel to the courthouse. Downside- the prosecutors are complete ______(rhymes with sticks).  MDC Brooklyn is awful for clients. But you know how difficult it is to get electronics into FDC Miami? At MDC Brooklyn you just fill out a form and you and your laptop are in. At FDC Miami you need a handwritten note from Merrick Garland, and that's one of the easier hoops to jump through. Try getting someone from FDC legal on the phone. It's easier to get Kim Jong Un on the phone. Their voice mail should say "You have reached FDC legal. Good luck leaving a message and getting us to return it sucker."   Case in point-  we recently had an issue with our access to MDC Brooklyn and on the day before Memorial Day, a lawyer at MDC Brooklyn legal responded to our email and renewed our access for a year.  Mark us down as a fan. 

Boston Massachusetts.  The courthouse is beautiful and the hallways have a great view of the Back Bay. The marshals all call you "counselah" as do many of the judges. We love Boston. So many places to hang and have a beer and chowdah. Prosecutors are decent as are the judges. Downside- the jail for clients detained is in...ready for this? Rhode Island. About an hour drive from Boston. 

Los Angeles. We just like the vibe of LA. 

Dallas (Northern District of Texas).  We are not a fan. First, Dallas has a weird vibe. You can stand right where President Kennedy was killed and feel the history of the 1960's being changed. The prosecutors are hit or miss- we have  had really good ones, and really awful ones. Biggest surprise- standing when the Judge walked in and having him asking us to remain standing while he prayed to his "lord and savior Jesus Christ".  Sort of an uncomfortable moment. 

Middle District of Florida. Used to hate and we mean HATE Miami lawyers in the 80s and 90's, Like Broward type hate. Things have been better recently. 

Southern District of Georgia (Savanah). Nothing better than walking to court from the hotel and having every single person you pass on the way stop and wish you a good morning. The marshals asked if we were a lawyer and when we said we were, they ushered us through security after looking at the bar card. 

Northern District of Illinois (Chicago). It's Chicago. Deep Dish Pizza. Chicago-style dogs. Really good hotels near the courthouse and there is the Loop. Downside- it's really cold in the winter. But one of our fav memories was recently walking a lead defendant in a lengthy fraud conspiracy trial where several of the co-defendants (whose counsel were very rude to us during the whole trial for reasons we need not get into, but basically they didn't like not having a local lawyer going first on cross, etc) were convicted, and having the judge excuse us while mayhem erupted over the inconsistent verdicts and we just strolled away. 

Eastern District of New York  (Brooklyn).  Old facility. But the prosecutors are much better than SDNY and Brooklyn has undergone a revitalization. The court borders Brooklyn Heights, so there is Montague street for great lunch and dinner restaurants. But stay in nearby Williamsburgh which back in the 80's was a war zone, but now is populated by aging Boomers, and Gen Zers. Hotels have a great vibe and there are steakhouses, sushi places, and Indian joints galore, not to mention cool coffee houses and indie bookstores. 

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

DEAR KATHY WE ARE GOING TO SIT IN YOUR OFFICE

 Not exactly a love letter. 

Prediction ( we are good at these- see our Biden dropping out prediction last week two days before he did)  your State Attorney will...DO NOTHING. 

She will not respond. 

She has not done anything although one of her now former prosecutors arguably obstructed justice. 

So Rumpole has an idea. An old idea actually. 

Her office wants to investigate and arrest PDs. Let's do a SIT IN. 

Non-violent protest. Until our State Attorney agrees to address these issues, including an independent oversight board for the convictions of her office that are now suspect, criminal defense attorneys sit in her office. At both sides of the SAO blocking ingress and egress and if necessary, like other protestors before us, get arrested. If MLK and John Conyers and thousands of others did it, we can do it. Let's take it to the streets! 

We will win and she will break if swarms of us continue to sit in her office demanding action. 

Now, we are willing to put our money where our mouth is- and sit in with our colleagues, but we have a small trip coming up shortly, so we need to schedule this sit in, as we don't want to read about our colleagues in jail while sipping a Negroni in the Alps. 

Here is the FACDL's decidedly unlove letter to our State Attorney. 

Statement on the SAO's Targeting of Defense Lawyers by Anonymous PbHV4H on Scribd

Sunday, July 21, 2024

THIS MOMENT IN TIME

 “There are decades when nothing happened and weeks when decades happen” Lenin was reportedly to have said. 

Now are those weeks when decades are happening. 

An older person, with decades of admirable service to community is seeing all they built crumble around them. They appear frozen in the headlights, unable to respond as they did in their younger days- when confidence and talent carried the day. 

And then there is Joe Biden. 

But first our State Attorney. 

When did she surround herself with sycophants, all assuring her that her top prosecutor who goes by the initials MVZ knew what he was doing? When did the hallmark of honesty and integrity become replaced by a win at all costs attitude? For decades prosecutors had to deal with cops who stretched the line of truth because they “knew” the defendant was guilty and did not trust the system. Then, slowly, Miami Prosecutors (at least some of them) adopted the same philosophy. And now, faced with the biggest scandal in the history of the once proud Miami State Attorneys Office, our State Attorney stubbornly and steadfastly refuses to allow outside oversight over their convictions - not even the ones obtained by MVZ who has been proven to be a liar, and possibly worse. (There is a name for turning a blind eye to illicit drug use and sexual assignations). Where is the criminal investigation for obstruction of justice? The SAO is investigating two assistant PDs for possibly telling a witness to not appear. But they do nothing when MVZ coordinates the testimony of jailhouse snitches and then lies about it? Really?? 

Speaking of stubborn, as KFR says everything is ok, so does her aging counterpart at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Also surrounded by sycophants, his staff gaslighted the news media and the Democratic Party a year ago as rumors of his age, illness and infirmity began to circulate. And what have they wrought? Nothing other than handing over the White House to a convicted felon and party bent on destroying American ideals, unless your view of American ideals is isolationism,  xenophobia, and a cult of personality. 

We will be held accountable  in both Miami and by the world,  if we standby while the concepts of justice and America are torn apart. 

Maybe a few judges and ASAs should read what happened to James Joseph Richardson - wrongfully convicted of the murder of his seven children and sentenced to death. He was exonerated and rereleased after a State Attorney and her staff proved his innocence. 

That State Attorney? Janet Reno and the Miami Dade State Attorneys Office (with the investigation led by Asa Don Horn) back when justice was their highest calling- not coordinating the statements of jail house snitches. 

In Europe world leaders fret and make plans for the next Trump Administration, with a vice president who wants to abandon Ukraine who is fighting Russia alone as England fought Hitler alone in 1939-1942.  

It takes a lifetime to build a reputation. And it can be lost in a minute by the actions of MVZ or DT. 

Churchill and Roosevelt and Eisenhower were men who met the moment. Janet Reno was the woman who time and time again told her prosecutors to go where the evidence led them- winning was at the bottom of the list. Justice was at the top. 

Where are these people when we need them now? 


(Ps we wrote this early Sunday before the Biden announcement but decided to run it anyway. You get the point. Well, we shouldn’t assume that should we? Some of you get the point.  The rest are busy reading MAGA crap about Harris not being eligible to be president or Hillary using Hunter’s laptop to trick the media into not reporting how ill Biden was. Speaking of old age - whose age is an issue for the presidency now? Lmfao ). 

BIDEN OUT

 Update: It occurs to us the enormity of the decision of the president. The last president supported a mob who stormed the capitol looking to hang his vice president. His lawyers filed  frivolous lawsuits across the country - losing them all and their bar licenses as well. He tried to hang on to power for his own aggrandizement and personal profit.  

Need we compare that to what just occurred? A man walking away from what he always aspired to for the good of the county? (Save us your emails and comments about how he was forced. They ring hollow in comparison to the lawsuits and “hang Mike Pence” chants as well as his encouragement for Pence to violate the constitution.)  

Lest we forget. Only one candidate for president is a 78 year old convicted felon.  

Who is too old to be president? 

Teach them how to say goodbye”

Alexander Hamilton 


AS WE PREDICTED THIS WEEK 

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN HAS WITHDRAWN 

FROM HIS RACE TO BE RE ELECTED AS PRESIDENT 


Now it’s going to get fun  

We neglected to mention Pete Buttigieg as a potential candidate   Biden just endorsed his VP Kamala Harris - but Pete B is super duper smart and sometimes that works for the 52% of Americans who aren’t anti intellectual. Trump would be advised  not to debate either of them  




Saturday, July 20, 2024

1202 ALARM ( REPEAT)

We repeat our post on the Apollo 11 Moon landing, 55 years ago todabecause our post was so exceptionally well written. 


 The fascinating part of the historic Apollo 11 landing on the moon (50 years ago today) is the handling of the 1202 and 1201 alarms during the decent of the Eagle to the lunar surface.

Some Apollo-nerd stuff that you only get here: The Eagle's computer had three programs to run from the time it undocked to landing. The first was P63: which controlled Eagle from undocking while it was still in orbit to powered-descent. P63 controlled the attitude (pitch and yaw) of Eagle and ran the burn which took Eagle out of orbit and into a controlled descent to the lunar surface. PDI (powered-descent initiation) occurred about 500 kilometers east of the landing site and 12 minutes to landing. The first go-no-go from Houston after the go-no-go for undocking was for PDI. When the Eagle is three minutes from landing and 7K/M from the site, the computer ran P64. The P64 program pitched the Eagle forward and gave Armstrong a view of the lunar surface so he could check for landmarks. At this point the computer is telling the astronauts and Houston where it intends to land. If you listen to the raw landing tapes, the guidance officer in Houston is indicating that they are headed for a spot longer down-range than anticipated. 

When the Eagle is 600 meters from the landing site, Armstrong activates P66 in which he and the computer share the throttle while Armstrong alone controls the descent. 
Somewhere along the way a switch was flipped powering on the rendezvous radar that was supposed to be off. The rendezvous radar began feeding more information to the computer than it was designed to handle at exactly the wrong time- during the dangerous descent phase. How Armstrong and NASA handled this critical error is the stuff legends are made of.

As PDI begins, Houston immediately loses signal and data from Eagle, prompting a call to Collins in Colombia to tell Aldrin to re-aim an antenna. Meanwhile Neil Armstrong has several issues to contend with, including no communication with the men who are supposed to guide him. 

As the Eagle descended Armstrong began to realize that the guidance computer was taking him farther down range then it was supposed to and was putting the Eagle into a crater. The Eagle has two guidance systems: PGNS (pings) is the main system, and AGS is the back-up. Both Houston and Aldrin  are monitoring both systems and comparing their data to see if it matches as the Eagle descends towards history. 

As  P63 turns the Eagle around so that now it's Engine is facing the lunar surface, the landing radar and other radar (that's supposed to be off) both lock on to the lunar surface. The computer is overloaded with data, and now come the words that almost ended the mission: "1202...1202 alarm."  Eagle is 33,500 feet above the surface of the moon. 

In the simulator Armstrong and Aldrin had practiced with several different scenarios, including the loss of various functions of the Eagle, wrong indicators, loss of communication, and the like. But in the thousands of hours of training, they had never encountered a 1202 alarm.

Here is what happened on the ground in Houston and their success showed why NASA was able to achieve the extraordinary moon landing:

Gene Kranz was the flight director, later responsible for the saying "failure is not an option". Kranz was the one who made the final decision to allow the Eagle to land. 
Jack Garman was an engineer and part of the team working on the computers and the landing guidance system of the Eagle. At a meeting several weeks before the landing, Kranz told Garman to write down every possible alarm and the response to the alarm.
Steve Bales was the guidance officer who was one of the men responsible to answer Kranz during various "Go-No-Go" calls when Houston had to tell Armstrong if he could continue to land.
Astronaut Charlie Duke was "cap-com" the man responsible for speaking directly to Aldrin and Armstrong. 

Several seconds after the 1202 alarm, Armstrong having heard nothing from Houston, asked "give us a reading on that 1202 alarm."  When you listen to Armstrong, there is some uncertainty in his voice. He is about 30,000 feet above the surface of the moon and less than seven and half minutes from landing. He is looking for a place to land, watching his fuel, working on the high-gain antenna issue, and now an alarm that he does not recognize is going off which may cause the mission to be aborted. 

Meanwhile in Houston, when the alarm went off, Kranz was looking towards his guidance officer Bales or anyone else who knew what the alarm was. Nobody knew. There were blank stares all around as Krantz's landing team started scrambling though massive three-ring binders looking for what a 1202 alarm was. Eventually Krantz asked Bales and Bales called over to a back room where there were dozens of engineers One of them- Jack Garman - knew what the alarm meant.  

Apollo 11's computer's were rudimentary. The landing radars started giving the computer more data than it could handle. When this occurred the computer had a line of programing to tell it to prioritize its work and to trigger a 1202 alarm to let Houston and the Eagle know what it was doing. Essentially the computer was rebooting without shutting down. If the computer had shut down, Kranz would have ordered an abort. 

Garman reasoned that as long as the alarm didn't continually repeat, which would mean the computer was in a non-recoverable loop, that they were "go" on the alarm. Garman told Bales. Bales told Kranz. Kranz told Duke and Duke told Armstrong. 

There was another 1202 alarm and then a 1201 alarm at 27,000 feet above the surface. Aldrin tells Houston about why he thinks the alarm is occurring. Meanwhile Garman quickly told Bales that the 1201 alarm was the same type of alarm as the 1202 and that they were "go" on that. 

Armstrong never doubted what Duke was telling him. Kranz had faith in Bales and Bales knew Garman knew the landing computer software better than anyone. 

At about 9 minutes into the landing, and 5200 feet about the surface the computer switches to P64 and the program pitches Eagle over so that the attitude of the Eagle is more upright, and it begins to descend in the same attitude that it will have upon landing. Armstrong is now looking at the surface so he can find a place to land.  Kranz quickly runs through a "go-no-go" for landing and Retro (the controller monitoring the engines) FIDO (flight dynamics),  ECOM (electrical, environmental and consumables), Guidance  and the flight surgeon all give Kranz and enthusiastic "GO!" for landing which Charlie Duke relays to Aldrin and Armstrong. 

At 3,000 feet they get another 1201 alarm, but they are quickly told they are "go on that alarm" and the descent continues. In another minute, at 1300 feet they get another 1202 alarm, but they are still go to land. 

 At 600 feet the P64 program is steering the Eagle toward a sea of boulders and craters. Armstrong decides to switch to the P66 program and manually take control of Eagle. He began to use the thrusters to navigate the Eagle past a large crater and then looked for a relatively flat area to set his craft down on, all the while monitoring an ever-dwindling fuel supply and a host of other issues. 

The Eagle is 300 feet from the surface when Aldrin tells Armstrong that he is "pegged at horizontal velocity",  meaning they are going forward at the top speed on the indicator. At 250 feet Armstrong is now slowing the forward velocity. He sees a landmark he recognizes: "Little West Crater", and he pilots Eagle just past it where he sees a relatively smooth surface to land. The forward velocity has slowed from 50 feet/second to 19 feet/second. At 175 feet they have 94 seconds to land, or they will get a "fuel-bingo" call from Houston and will have to abort. 

The Eagle had one chance to land on the moon. If the landing was aborted, they would activate the ascent engine, fly back to Michael Collins in Colombia, and headed back to earth having failed in their attempt to land. There were no second chances on this flight. 

At 100 feet they have 75 seconds of fuel left.  Armstrong is now demonstrating why he was chosen for this mission- he is at the top of his game and pulling off the greatest landing in the history of aviation- and one of the most difficult and dangerous to boot. The man has met the moment.  Thousands of hours of training are paying off for the Apollo 11 landing team. 

At 75 feet the Eagle's velocity has slowed to six feet forward/per second. At 60 feet, Charlie Duke in Houston calls out "sixty seconds": they have a minute of fuel left to land. 

At 20 feet Charlie Duke calls out "thirty seconds". There is almost no fuel left to land. 
With seventeen seconds of fuel remaining Aldrin calls out "contact light": a 1.5-meter probe below Eagle has touched the surface and humans have landed on the moon.  


The team worked. The system worked, and Armstrong landed the Eagle with 17 seconds of fuel remaining. 

The first words spoken by a human being on another celestial body belong to Buzz Aldrin: "Contact light. Ok. Engine stop. ACA out of descent. Mode control both auto descent engine command override off. Engine arm off. 413 is in.

Hardly memorable or historic words, but before Armstrong tells the world that from Tranquility Base "The Eagle has landed",  Aldrin had a checklist he needed to run through to make sure the descent engines were shut down and the abort-ascent engine couldn't be accidentally triggered. 

Charlie Duke responds "we copy you down Eagle".

Armstrong says "The Eagle has landed" and Duke responds that there were a bunch of guys about to turn blue but were breathing again. This is in response to the fact that with less than 30 seconds of fuel, the Eagle had not landed and everyone in mission control was holding their breath. 

A half a million people worked on some part of the Apollo program. But on July 20, 1969, it was Kranz, Steve Bales, and Jack Garman who gave the go ahead to Armstrong and Aldrin to continue the landing in the face of 1202 and 1201 alarms.

Brave and historic actions indeed.  And it is, in our humble opinion, humanity's finest hour. It reminds us that if we try together, we as a species can do great things. 

Happy Apollo 11 Moon Landing Day. 

THINGS THAT BOTHER US

 Being more than slightly cranky, if not misanthropic, here are things, in no particular order, that bug us: 

The federal form we fill out at FDC that requires us to tell them our car and license plate number. We are getting more and more exotic with our answers- our last one listed a Ferrari GTO and a plate number of NG123, and they didn't blink an eye. 

While we are at it on FDC- to bring in a laptop you still need President Biden to sign off on the request. You know what it takes to bring in a laptop at MDC Los Angeles or MDC Brooklyn? Just filling our a form. The same for the Dade Jails. What is the holdup here with the feds in Miami? 

Prosecutors who set plea offers to expire at 12 noon. Like if they got an email at 12:01 they would ignore it or say the offer had changed. 

County Court Judges who like to cite the rules of judicial administration when denying a motion to continue. Really? You are that full of yourself? 

Prosecutors and Judges who deny the existence of a trial tax. You are as believable as someone who denies global warming. 

Influencers. Because they annoy us. Just go away. 

People who crowd the gate at the airport in group seven. We are in group one. Get out of our way please we need time to settle into our seat in first class. 

People at the airport. 

Waiters who put on a show with the menu. Give us the menu. Tell us the specials and STFU please. 

People who use air quotes. 

People who are excessively interested in the bourbon for their old fashioned. We do not need some liquor that was aged in casks made from outhouses in Kentucky. Just make the drink. 

People who order egg white omelets. Eat a yolk. If you are worried, take a statin later. 

Vaccine deniers, Still. They bug us with their "I'm not putting anything in my body that I haven't researched". Like if they were dying of a burst appendix they would ask about the type of anesthesia being used. 

People offended by standup comics. Get a life. 

MAGA people- of course. 

Tip options for nearly every part of our life. Do not get us wrong-we want working class people to make a decent living. But it should be the store owner who pays their clerk a decent wage, and not have it left up to us to tip a dollar to the convenience store worker who puts our Ice Cream Cookie sandwich in a bag. 

Vaping.  Don't be stupid. 

Items that now require a subscription service. Case in point- compost machines. Rumpole has been composting since about 1980. But lately there are new types of machines that take your food refuse and create a dry powdery compost which you can then spread on your lawn. But- get this- these machines which look like small garbage cans, plug into the wall and connect to the internet- and they required a sixty plus dollar a month for a subscription fee!! So no thank you- we will just take that banana peel and take it outside to our compost bin and let nature take its course. 

SDNY prosecutors. You know who you are. 😡😠

Unsolicited emails telling us they have been on our website and know why we aren't getting clients. We cannot respond because we do not have the time because we are so BUSY with our clients. Just go away. 

Pig Butchering: Have you gotten the text message that is asking about someone else? It's usually something like "Hey Mary we are here waiting for you." Then you respond they have the wrong number. Then they respond that their assistant wrote in a wrong cell phone number but they are glad to meet you. This is a China based scam called "Pig Butchering" Google it. They usually send a picture of an attractive young Asian woman who claims to be a successful businessperson. They make friends. They flirt and at some point they let you know that they are making an extra 20K a month trading crypto and because you are now friends they will help you set up an account. Once you know the scam you can F with them. But we have worked with two older clients who were scammed for a whole lot of money and it is very sad, especially since the people behind the texts are working in labor camp type conditions in China and are untouchable. Be careful and warn your clients and family and friends please. 

And finally, to the idiot who sends us about 10 comments a day stating "I heard X quit at the SAO" with multiple variations- stop. We are not posting them and those are seconds out of our life to delete them we will not get back. Don't make us angry- we are 90% sure we know who you are.  


Friday, July 19, 2024

PREDICTION

 President Joseph Robinette Biden (the only president whose middle name is the sur name of a Miami legal Judicial legend - see below for more) will exit the race by this time next week. 

Political trivia- name the last sitting president who chose not to run for reelection. 

So now that Biden out is a nearly foregone conclusion, what is the path forward? Biden cannot assign his delegates to his Vice President. He must release them, which means we will have an open convention. So our next political trivia is when was the last open convention in the US? Who won? 

Who are your picks to be the democratic presidential nominee? We think the strongest choice is Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia.  The Governors of Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Jersey, Colorado and California are also in the running. And what about Senator Corey Booker of NJ? We haven’t heard much about him lately. 

For a political junkie like Rumpole, this is going to be loads of fun. 

And while the presidency is within the grasp of you know who, he is not there yet. 

Don’t believe us? Just ask Thomas Dewey or Al Gore. Not to mention Richard Mulhouse Nixon in 1960. 


REGJb Trivia answer. We had a county court Judge named Meek Robinette who spoke with a very thick southern drawl. He was not, to be kind, the sharpest knife in the drawer, so he was relegated to bond hearing duty twice a day where he said iconically “Unless ah state otherwhaise ah find probahable chause…” Let’s just say there was a gulf as wide as the Mississippi River between him and Judge Ed Cowart. But what a name! Meek as a first name is just so old school southern cool. And if you read about Judge Robinette you will learn that as a young man he was a U of M star athlete. Share your Meek Robinette stories with us and on X #MeekRobinette. 

Thursday, July 18, 2024

SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE BAR

 This one is troubling. 

There was a trial in Northern Florida (Orange County Ninth Circuit Motto: "We ain't liberal Miami y'all and ninth is better than eleventh") in which an African American Doctor sued over his dismissal on grounds it was race related. He won. The jury awarded him 2.75 million. The trial judge reversed the verdict and dismissed the case.  Such is life in some parts of the US. Perhaps it was well founded in law. Perhaps it was not. 

MEMO TO BAR: WE ARE NOT CRITCIZING THE JUDGE 

Then a lawyer reposted on her social media account other posts criticizing the judge and calling for his removal. 

And your Florida Bar moved to sanction her. The referee agreed that she distributed false information about a member of the judiciary. Attached is the referee findings and the Amicus brief of the ACLU. 

What do you think of this?

Oh wait- it's a Northern Florida   issue. What do y'all think about this? Meet at the Piggly Wiggly to discuss. 

When we write that DeSantis appointed judges are latte sipping, balls and strikes calling drones who will do anything to write an order stating that the motion is denied because it is the function of the legislature and not the judiciary to make such policy decisions so that they catch the eye of the federalist society, are we headed for a bar complaint? Will the ACLU help us? Will Mr. Markus defend us?  Or are we doomed? 

What about when we repost the Kardashians?  What if a local judge owned a restaurant and we ate at it and called it worse than sewer swill and that anyone who owned such an establishment was lower than a pig in a poke?  Would the Bar come after us? Or just the NY Times Restaurant critic? 


Report of Referee - Brooke Girley by Anonymous PbHV4H on Scribd

ACLU BRIEF

ACLU Amicus by Anonymous PbHV4H on Scribd

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

OLD SCHOOL

 It used to be cooler to Zoom with Pooler.

Not anymore. 

The Judge is going old school with no Zoom Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. 

Why the Zoom hate? 

Appearing by Zoom takes cars off the roads- not that global warming is an issue employees of the State of Florida can discuss. They cannot- even in the porno-novels they may write. 

Zoom makes lawyers' lives easier. Some of our colleagues do not want to drive from Broward where they live to hear the state announce a nolle prosse, or that a client was accepted into PTI. 

And more importantly, many of our clients work two and three jobs (something our          30- something DeSantis drones do not identify with) and sometimes the difference in them being able to pay their rent or utility bill is that extra shift they pick up at Starbucks making our 30 something DenSantis drone's double iced latte. 

So what's the problem with Zoom? Despite Florida's strict prohibitions about mentioning the heat or the weather, don't we all want to be Cooler In Pooler (via Zoom)?