You can't order without a menu.
And it's hard to figure out which Magistrate is doing what and when, when you go on the SDFLA website and- after much searching- find the duty roster:
First of all when you go on to the Southern District Web site (Motto "We know who you are") there are nine tabs. Choices. Choices. Choices. Which tab is more likely to yield the duty assignments: "Court Info"; "Attorney Info"; "Judges Info?"?
Judge's info is the correct choice, but not an intuitive one.
Once there and you click, you get the above.
Matthewman? We'll take him...but although it doesn't say it, he's 70 miles away in
Reid...Maynard...Valle...they're all on duty. Who's holding court at 10 and 2? And BTW where is their courtroom? No info on this tab. To find that, it's another click-fest.
Give the feds their due- their electronic filing system is 100X better than the State of Florida's system.
But figuring out where to go? It's like trying to find WMD's in Iraq circa 2001-2007. You know they're there, somewhere...but where?
With apologies to our favourite federal blogger as this is his milieu, but he's not anonymous and we are, and he can't piss off the powers that be, and doing that is our milk and honey.
Memorial Day coming up. Otherwise known as Trump Pardons his favourite war-criminals day.
what's criminal duty court? Did I miss something?
ReplyDeleteFed Mag job is weird. Not sure I would do it. You have to kow-tow to the Judge. Lawyers dis you as not being a real judge. Everything gets appealed.
ReplyDeleteBut on the upside- you get law clerks.
Off topic, but I propose a front page post on this issue so that it gets some traction:
ReplyDeleteThere are a number of judges who continue to notice defendants and attorneys to be present at a particular time for calendar, and who have a dozen state employees there waiting, yet who routinely start as much as an hour later. More frustratingly, at least one of these judges also refuses to address changes of plea until he has gathered all such defendants at the end of the calendar.
Perhaps a small thing to some people, and I suppose one could make a habit of calling chambers to ask permission to arrive at 11:30, but I cannot understand how twenty other circuit judges are able to call a calendar and take pleas as they come and still finish in time to move onto trials.
And as politicians who run for office, I cannot imagine how these judges justify to the voting, tax-paying public that we pay for PDs, ASAs, COs, probation officers, clerks and court reporters to all sit around chatting from 9:30AM until 10:30 when the judge takes the bench.
I dont expect that everyone has to begin at 8:59 (though Judge Hirsh is commendable for this), but come on - past 10:15?
3:02 pm. Welcome to Miami. It's called.....(drum roll please)….
ReplyDeleteCUBAN TIME
TA DA!
Ana Pando used to show up 3 hours late every day.
ReplyDeleteMag WHITE hangs up the robes and MARKUS doesn’t say sh&t about it. Some blogger.
ReplyDeleteI pulled and old file from 1973 today. Felony sale of cannabis. Here are some of the familiar names (if you're an Old Guy) in that file:
ReplyDeleteJudge Ellen Morphonios (sealed the file)
Judge Ralph Ferguson (the closing judge)
Judge John A. Tanksley (bind over to circuit)
Judge Gerald Klein (Bond Hearing)
ASA N. Joseph Durant, Jr. for the State
Jack Nageley for the Defense
Old Guy...Dann...almost half a century ago. Like today, impeachment rumblings just around the corner.
ReplyDeleteRumpole, if you scroll to the right on your screenshot (the third column), it says the city of the judge.
ReplyDeleteNot on the mobile screen. My phone is my office. I don’t have penthouse accommodations like some lawyers do.
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