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We note that the guilty verdict in the Couey trial made national headlines this week.
A quick recommendation: Read the article in this week's New Yorker Magazine about City of Miami Police Chief John Timoney. It's a great article about an interesting man, with all of his accomplishments and personal life hardships on display for all to see. We came away from the article with a greater appreciation for the Chief and the hope that he just might be the guy to straighten out what has been a troubled department for decades.
See You In Court, once we return.
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
ReplyDeleteSorry Rumpole, but I am not a fan of the Commiss. My vivid picture of Timoney is of him and his men, on foot, bicycles, horses, etc. firing upon the weapon-less and defense-less protestors at the FTAA conference a couple of years ago.
I was one of those volunteer attorneys who represented people, some of whom had never been arrested in their lives, for blocking the sidewalk, walking with a sign, and other ridiculous new ordinances that Timoney wrestled through the City and County Commission, in order to keep peace in our city.
You are constantly expousing about not giving up our civil liberties and protection of our rights, the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments among them; well Timoney would have us give up all our rights to permit people to protest, in a peaceful manner, as he did with FTAA.
I understand the history of the conferences and the serious problems they had in Seattle and other cities around the world, but the extent to which he and his trained houligans went, to keep the peace, well, they went way too far, for my constitutional britches.
His actions are no different, albeit on a smaller scale, than GW Bush' acts of wiretaps and intercepted communications while bypassing the court system in order to accomplish what he (Bush) thought was the right thing to do.
Our constitution is at its strongest when he pus up a STOP sign to the Timoneys' of our world.
I'll be interested to hear other bloggers weigh in on Timoney.
Until then, good luck on your travels.
CAPTAIN OUT ...............
Timony is a facist, consistent with his authoritarian upbringing as an Irish Catholic. Look at all the other examples in your country, i.e. Father Coughlin, Joe McCarthy, William Casey, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Pat Buchanan, etc. These are dangerous people.
ReplyDeleteIs Rumpole Dore Louis?
ReplyDeleteTimoney and his troops also beat, bean-bagged, gassed and arrested people who were not even protestors. Media and bystanders were also arrested and charged with b.s. misdemeanors. Judge Margolius was watching the protests and they came to arrest him but an officer recognized him and they let him go. Margolius, who's known as tough judge, said that he saw 19 felonies committed by police in a matter of minutes. Cops also charged people with failure to disperse even though they were blocking all exists and not allowing people to comply with their own order.
ReplyDeletecheck out the wall street journal's law blog and www.scotus. great stuff on teh supreme court
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www.scotusblog.com
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All of those evil Irish Catholics - like who? Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Armitage - all bad Protestants? Alberto Gonzalez, Condo Rice , both bad ......
ReplyDeleteLove your logic, but you are no Mr. Spock!
beam me up scotty....
ReplyDeleteI agree with 3:42. If you allow Rev. Paisley and his American cousins to have their way, before you know it, abortions will not be illegal, divorce will not be unconstitutional, and children will not be saying mandatory rosaries at the "public" schools. Such developments are barbaric. I say, back to the Dark Ages, where the church runs the government and everyone knows who to obey.
ReplyDeleteShoot them all in the kneecaps and blow up all their pubs!
ReplyDeleteTHE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
ReplyDeleteIn case you missed it in the Herald today:
Two California tourists hit by suspended Miami-Dade prosecutor George Cholakis while he allegedly drove drunk in Miami Beach filed a negligence suit against him Wednesday.
Cholakis faces charges of driving under the influence with serious bodily injury. He has pleaded not guilty.
Miami Beach police say that on New Year's Eve, his convertible plowed into a motor scooter ridden by Dr. Shahin Ebrahimian and clothing importer Daniel Michail on the Venetian Causeway.
Michail was hospitalized two weeks with pelvic fractures. He uses a wheelchair in recovery, said the pair's attorney, Jonathan Yellin.
Ebrahimian injured his spine and suffered facial lacerations, Yellin said.
A well-regarded prosecutor, Cholakis helped prosecute members of the infamous John Does drug gang that wreaked havoc in the 1990s in Liberty City.
To avoid a conflict of interest, his case is being handled by the Broward state attorney's office.
''He's extremely concerned for the people hurt in this situation, but he has denied fault and we will prove that in the long run,'' said his attorney, Richard Sharpstein.
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The criminal case, defended by Sharpstein & Zenobi, is set for trial before Judge Jorge Perez on September 24, 2007. Case is prosecuted by North of the Border's Stephanie Newman. I do not know if the blood test results have come back from toxicology yet?
CAPTAIN OUT .................
and now back to Timoney Talk
ReplyDeleteDidn't Cholakis refuse the blood test?
ReplyDeletefake brummer for public defender
ReplyDeleteTimoney, like Arriola, is one of the many mistakes of Manny Diaz.
ReplyDeleteTHE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
ReplyDeleteCholakis did not refuse; there was a forced blood draw pursuant to FS 316.1933.
CAPTAIN OUT ...........
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ReplyDeletehelps get ya through a long day at the law office.
Evil Irish?!
ReplyDeleteWhat about Judge Murphy, Bonner, Cullinan, DeMiles, Donnelly, DeMiles, Meyer, O'Donnel Sr, O'Donnel Jr, O'Sullivan, Ryan, Skerry, Sullivan, and the greatest of them all, St. Patrick.
You people should start an Irish Bar Association in Miami. (No pun intended). And show us how to really have a happy hour.
Manny Diaz and Fidel Castro went to the same high school...Belen!
ReplyDeleteBELEN? On the Justice Building Blog? Wow.
ReplyDeleteDid any of those FTAA cases go to trial?
ReplyDeletethe firing by the "justice department" of those prosecutors is going to get UGLY. this administration is going to give the white house to those gosh darn taxing democrates.
ReplyDeletevote libertarian.
judge pinero, ex-comish humberto hernandez and ex-mayor suarez also went to belen! definitely a conspiracy.
ReplyDeleteJudge Pineiro went to Belen, grew up nice Catholic boy, converted to Judaism a few years ago. Isn't that weird?
ReplyDeletemozel-tov
ReplyDeleteHernandez=convicted felon (sentenced by Judge Pineiro); Suarez=nut job; J. Pineiro=Jew.
ReplyDeletePineiro way ahead of the pack.
No, none of those FTAA cases went to trial b/c the vast majority of those hippies were guilty. The use of excessive force was blown way out of proportion. A small price to pay to avoid what happened in Seattle.
ReplyDeletePineiro way ahead of the pack and wins by a nose!
ReplyDeleteNo, 12:33 you are wrong. As a prosecutor in the county court division at the time ,at least 2 of those cases went to trial. One was a not guilty by Beth Bloom and one was a guilty by Mills- Francis . This was a bench trial. There may have been 2 more. Steve Talpins pled alot of those cases out to lessors or nolle pross if letters not to sue were signed.
ReplyDeleteFree Scooter Libby and George Cholakis!!!
ReplyDeleteFREE MARYJANE!!!!
ReplyDeleteRe the FTAA protests:
ReplyDeleteYes, the use of force was blown out of proportion. So was the number of violent protesters.
Most protesters acted appropriately. Unfortunately, however, there were a couple of small groups of troublemakers who provoked the police by throwing urine on them, paint, rocks, etc. Some of these groups actually trained their members how to provoke the police (they had websites and everything). And, a couple of officers overreacted. As usual, everyone focused on the few instead of the many. The vast majority of officers handled themselves very professionally. They deserve credit for that.
The SAO gave breaks to a lot of the arrestees because many of them were very young, had no priors and got caught up in the heat of the moment. I wouldn't make much of the plea deals.......The SAO regularly cuts breaks to young people who commit misdemeanors (PTD, fines, etc.....).
It's easy to criticize the police Captain, but, you don't walk in their shoes. They have a tough job. We expect them to keep us safe while playing nice with people who would burn our businesses to the ground without a second thought. That's quite a challenge. Overall, I think they did a pretty good job keeping the peace. The protesters had their say and we didn't experience the craziness other cities did.
9:48 p.m., I defended people in the FTAA too, and not even protestors, but bystanders. In one case, the client was charged with failure to obey a lawful command, however, the police committed armed robbery, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, simple battery, criminal mischief over $200, and official misconduct. The SAO did not charge the police but nolle prossed the case against the client. It was all on tape. You may not have seen the video tapes but the police abuse was worthy of a dictatorship. It was a shameful episode in Miami's police history. Those who bore the brunt of the police unlawful activities were not the anarchists or violent protestors. It was the peaceful protestors, bystanders, and journalists.
ReplyDeleteCholakis' blood was right above a .08. It was a .083...Captain, thought you were more informed then that!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe that only one FTAA case went to jury trial. That's so weak. No wonder the police feel free to walk all over us.
ReplyDeletewell, it would have helped if the police officers actually showed up for trial and if they listed the non miami police officers in and out of the county on their A form and if when the officers did show up they remembered the incident and did not say " oh I just filled out the a form- I did not see the battery/resisting/ etc..and when shown video tapes they ..... well, I could go on and on and on.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you don't recall, but the anarchist web sites were advising people to serve as "journalists" to maximize their access and minimize police restrictions.
ReplyDeleteWhile you're correct that some officers should have handled the situation differently, it's unfair to taint the vast majority who did their jobs properly.
I'm not talking about anarchists posing as journalists. I'm talking about accredited journalists covering the protests.
ReplyDeleteTimoney fostered an "us versus them" mentality where everyone else but the police were the enemy. The charges were mostly b.s., the tapes shown people arrested on dispersal orders that were never given, or dispersal orders violative of the First Amendment, or being prevented from dispersal by the police and then being arrested for failure to disperse. The Broward officers were some of the worst offenders and made some of the most outrageous arrests and abuses, but the ultimate responsibility belongs to Timoney who was in charge of the police response.
Latest news North of the Border - Judge Jails Stenographer (and she does not look very happy in her mug)
ReplyDeleteShe gets released once she is finished with the transcript. At least I know I am not the only one drafting documents this Saturday evening.
Yeah sure, the blood draw was done at least 3 to 4 hours after he got popped. That's why it was .083, if they would have drawn it right away it would have been much higher.
ReplyDeleteUnless the alcohol was trapped in a piece of food that finally was digested and released, and thus the alcohol level was on its way up rather than down.
ReplyDeleteVery good defense, 09:48, I had heard of that one before, but I DON'T THINK SO!
ReplyDeleteMaybe the blood draw was illegal. Wasn't there a Broward case where they said that the leg fracture ended up healing nicely and thus wasn't considered serious enough for a blood draw? Perhaps the pelvic fractures weren't all that and are healing properly.
ReplyDeleteInjuring a spine and suffering facial lacerations sounds like a run of the mill personal injury case, i.e. a tad of cervical radiculitis, lumbosacral strain/sprain...
Sounds like a suppression motion in the making.
Pelvic fractures are very painful but they heal by themselves without the need for casts or pins, so maybe they won't be considerd serious injuries.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Cholakis had just ingested his alcohol and was at less than a .08 when the accident happened, but the delay caused it to get up to .083.
Let's see what Cholakis' insurance company pays for the plaintiffs' injuries.
ReplyDeleteRUMPOLE OUTED!
ReplyDeleteIn today's New York Time. The author of this fictional construct is outed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/magazine/11wwlndomains.t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin
Rumpole now working for www.tmz.com which is owned and run by Extra tabloid TV show.
ReplyDeleteHis dream of being a reporter has come true!
His first big story is posted here:
http://www.tmz.com/2007/03/09/what-happened-to-lil-eddie-furlong/7#c3900875
Rumpole’s legacy: I am very fond of him, really. He is the character in so many of my books, and he has a lot of me in him and of my father. But he hasn’t got much of a sex life. Rumpole’s whole sex life could fill one wet weekend.
ReplyDeleteMARK EIGLARSH is a guest on FOX NEWS NETWORK with JAMIE COLBY (ANCHOR) - Judge Jon Colby's sister!
ReplyDeletehow bout those gators?
ReplyDeleteeiglarsh loves to go on t.v..
ReplyDeletedoes anyone care that cholakis almost killed 2 people with his drinking and driving, but got lucky that the did not die. i cant believe you people are supporting him!!!!!
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