3RD DCA ROUNDUP-CORNERED EDITION

HOLIDAY WEEKEND UPDATE:

Unlike other blogs of local import who have mailed it in for the next four days, we will be up and running, providing updates, posting comments, and providing you the service you have come to expect of a superior legal blog. Make sure to read Saturday's blockbuster post with a sneaky Supreme Court Trivia Question.

GENESIS 6:5

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them....For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.

ITEM: BROWARD STATE ATTORNEYS OFFICE FLOODED. AGAIN.

ITEM: JUDGE PETER ADRIEN WORST IN BAR POLL.

The DBR reports that Judge Peter Adrien has scored the lowest bar poll rating for this last survey of lawyers.

We cannot confirm that 4 out of 5 lawyers indicated that they would rather have a "drunken sea slug" preside over their case. However, we can confirm that we have received a threatening letter from the Society of Sea Slugs threatening legal action unless we remove their name from the same paragraph of the embattled jurist.

THIRD DCA ROUNDUP:

The court issued a pretty decent stop-seizure-search- decision. It's the only decision of this edition for us.

In Hill v. State, the court suppressed evidence obtained from an allegedly consensual encounter and consensual search. We can boil the holding down to two points- 1) when four officers approach a defendant from four separate angles, a reasonable person is likely to believe they are not free to leave; ESPECIALLY WHEN 2) The officer obtains and holds the defendant's driver's license. Thus being seized under the 4th amendment, the search cannot be consensual. Reversed.

Congrats to Dade APD Maria Lauredo for the win. Query: This was a Monroe County case. Does the Dade PD do the Monroe County PD appeals? Just wonderin.