CANDIDATE TRAINING SESSION

AN ALERT READER SENT THIS:

CANDIDATE WATCH:On Thursday, May 18, 2006 at 1:00 PM, at the Dade County Courthouse, The Florida Bar will be conducting a training session for people seeking election to become a judge in 2006.According to The Florida Bar, this training should be attended by anyone who has filed to run already OR ANYONE SEEKING OFFICE WHO WILL BE FILING BETWEEN JULY 17-21, 2006.According to the Bar, the following issues will be addressed:

1) Hispanic Heritage for Everyone!!!!- OYE- adding a “Hernandez” or “Pedros” to your last name. Adding a “Camacho” to your middle name, or adding a “Pepe” or “Enrique” to your first name. Do's and don’t will be discussed, and the case studies of Ira “pepe” Goldstein and Miriam Schwartz-Hernandez will be analyzed.

2) Juicy Seats- why running against a black judge just might be the ticket to getting a black robe.

3) The “Swartz Maneuver” what it is and how you can perfect it in your next campaign.

4) Raising money in Dade County-how to look the other why and why the doctrine of "willful blindness" may just get you indicted.
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On the issue of reversals, an alert reader sent this in on the reversal of Judge Siegler:

Dear blog master;The Third DCA withdrew the opinion in Daniel Martinez, on May 10 2006. The parties were required to file supplemental briefs. Specifically petitioner was required to provide a COMPLETE transcript of the hearing, during which petitioner claimed to have advised the court that there was a waiver in the file.The Third DCA suspects, that the trial judge was never advised of the waiver. Stay tuned.

Rumpole notes that being reversed does not make any of the Judges bad judges. Every lawyer loses a case, every judge blows a ruling now and then. Personally, we’d pick Judge Sigler to be our judge in any and every case we have.

APOLOGY. AND DISMISSAL.


We sort of think that maybe be were too hard on Judge Thomas. The thought of posting an “information” had been percolating in our minds for some time.But in retrospect, this really wasn't the right case for it. And while it is true that many readers were posting complaints, we never saw any of the conduct that they were complaining about. We have been in and out of his courtroom over the last few weeks, and quite frankly, he seems just like any other Judge in the building. He has his good points and bad points. Some of the stuff about denying continuances and berating attorneys doesn’t sit too well. But he seems fair, and has treated most everyone we saw before him- attorneys, defendants, and families of defendants- in a fair manner. In fact, he usually had a sense of humor about most things, which we find, makes the general public feel more at ease when in court.

So, charges DISMISSED. WITH PREJUDICE.
RUMPOLE., HORACE, J.

See You In Court.