First we want to take a moment an express a personal thought. It is our blog and we reserve the right, from time to time, to express a personal opinion.
RE: The lockdown. After careful consideration we have reached this conclusion:
WE ARE SICK OF THIS CRAP...ARrrrrrgh.
All righty, that is off our mind, lets move on.
Conspiracy theorists love this.
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air"
Macbeth, Act I, Scene I.
1) A lawyer gets in serious trouble for shenanigans with the Miccosukee tribe.
2) He gets wacked but good in federal court and the judge refers him to the Bar.
3) The Bar appoints Tunis as the referee. (Aside- why are they appointed as referees? Why not judges? And if they are appointed as a referee do they take the bench in a stripped shirt and if they do that, why haven't we ever seen this wonderful spectacle?)
4) Tunis holds hearings and recommends disbarment.
5) The Florida Supreme Court affirms.
6) The lawyer is disbarred, which these days, sitting at home, is not much different than the rest of us.
7) The lawyer is friends/mentor with a well-known Gadfly who Harold Stassen-like, keeps running for judge.
8) The candidate, no polymath she, immediately Googles "Harold Stassen" to try and discern Rumpole's brilliant historical reference. Confused about a seemingly irrelevant reference to her math skills, she then Googles "polymath" and the double insult finally dawns on her.
9) The disbarred lawyer (Macbeth for our purposes) gets the candidate -hereinafter on the blog to be known as "Lady Macbeth-Stassen" (LMS) (and at times"the Covid-19 Candidate", because more hoi polloi get that damaging reference), gets Lady Macbeth-Stassen to switch races and challenge Judge Tunis: "When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won," thereby bringing happiness to the disbarred lawyer, but much like when Lady Macbeth awakes from her famous sleep-walking scene, nothing good happens to her.
10) LMS -reading this- now nervously ponders whether she will be forced to read Macbeth, something she dodged in high school during her formative anti-polymath years, to figure out what this new allegorical turn in the blog means for her.
11) Fast forward to Macbeth, Act I, scene V, when Lady Macbeth, reading a letter from her husband, learns that three witches have prophesied his future as King: "When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the King, who all-hailed me 'Thane Of Crawdor, by which title before, these weird sisters saluted me: "Hail King that shall be.."
What shall become of Lady Macbeth-Stassen? Shall our Macbeth assume the throne and get his vindication, or shall LMS wander the streets of Hialeah late at night muttering "Out damned spot! Out!...will these hands ne're be clean?"
Stay Tuned....
RUMP is like CNN (fake news) and a spinner of facts and fabricator of fiction.
ReplyDeleteAponte’s political strategist is good. Take a candidate who has run recent campaigns, has a record of pro bono work, has the name recognition of the public exposure and has shown they have public support. Park that candidate in a race and switch that candidate at the last hour to a seat held by an incumbent who has not ever run a political race, has zero public exposure or name recognition, and has low support in the legal community. Add that the incumbent has not ever been out of the criminal division, is pro-prosecution and in a division where the incumbent regularly slams a disproprotionate number of minority defendants. And lets not forget the name, Dava vs. Rosy, one is easy to remember and appeals to the public voters and the other has neither qualities. Wham O.
ReplyDeleteWhole lotta Rosy. She will lose again. Sometimes incompetent people lose.
DeleteTunis is a great judge who has devoted her career to public service. Aponte, is well, nobody who has done nothing but as you say, has a “recognizable name.”
All this Shakespeare makes me think this blog is written by Milton Hirsch.
ReplyDeleteI agree.
DeletePoetic, Brilliant!!
ReplyDeletePerhaps skip the law gig, go into writing (aside, like now).
‘Pepe’ Herrera as Macbeth is perfect, even priceless.
Lady Macbeth-Stassen (LM-S) is beyond priceless.
Judge Tunis’ War Room during Covid-19: on Zoom? Do we skip from Shakespeare to West Wing?
Either way, this is a gnat for her. Irritating but in the end slapped away. She’ll flatten them dead.
LM-S will be looking at a fourth or fifth race next cycle.
A returning character in Rump’s writing repertoire.
Can someone pls delete "millenial me." Seeing the name annoys me. It reminds me of my own laziness.
ReplyDeletePlease delete millenial me and btdt. And put scott saul on probation.
ReplyDeleteI too have noting good to say about Dava. All I have seen is a rude, arrogant nightmare on the bench. Sometimes I think she drinks 15 cups of coffee and then flies around the courtroom like she is strung out on caffeine.
ReplyDeleteWord is members of the judiciary leaped to Tunis’ aid. They called publicists and others on her behalf. The theme was for Aponte to move to another seat or drop out of the race. Judges and staff engaging and involving themselves in political campaigning. Naw this could not be. Palm Beach County Judge Dana Marie Santino and 7th Circuit Judge Scott DuPont did not think anyone was watching their campaign activities, both were removed from the bench after elected. Do calls seeking for a candidate to drop out of a race amount to sufficient cause to remove a judge from the bench after election. Mind your Ps and Qs! You never know who is watching.
ReplyDeleteNo way this blog is written by Hirsch. Every once in a while, Rumpole displays humility.
ReplyDeleteMy bet is that Judge Tunis takes senior status and resigns before election yo be able to stay as senior judge.
ReplyDeleteI love Judge Tunis. She is one of our best. I will support her to the max. I am tired of the bottom feeders trying to be a judge because they have no legal talent and are uable to make it in private practice.
ReplyDeleteTrialmaster, are you deaf? Go sit in her court and watch how she abuses people and pushes everyone around.
ReplyDeleteWhy don’t you clean out your ears and take another listen? You’re talking about an honorable Judge who takes her job seriously and gets it done. I agree with The trialmaster. Judge Tunis is the judge we need in this division.
Delete12:05 correct on both counts, although we try and avoid the displays of humility.
ReplyDeleteWe sincerely hope Tunis does not take senior status. As Winston Spencer Churchill said..."Never never never never never surrender."
Judge Tunis has been a referee in several high-profile Bar disciplinary cases, and did very very well in that role. Will happily support her re-election campaign.
ReplyDeleteRUMPOLE - More important than this “Judge getting an opponent” nonsense, what do you truly think of High Pitch Eric on Howard Stern?
ReplyDeleteTunis should consider senior status. Karma is a bitch.
ReplyDelete11:40. Santino knew they were watching and her response was, it just going to be a $50k fine.
ReplyDeleteMilt is not Rumpole. Milt knows nothing about football. He's baseball all the way.
ReplyDeleteYour posts define your allegiance. You selectively posted about the case you reference, quickly posting what Tunis signed, but resisted posting the Report authored by Judge Cueto exposing the truth and slamming the complaining lawyers and the Florida Bar. A Florida BullDog Article exposed the corruption Tunis sanctioned, you refused to post it.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.floridabulldog.org/2019/10/florida-bar-using-similar-evidence-to-obtain-drastically-different-outcomes/
“Similar evidence” is not the same evidence. If Judge Cueto had seen all the evidence, he wouldn’t have come to such an incorrect conclusion.
ReplyDeleteIn affirming Judge Tunis, did the Florida Supreme Court permanently disbar Pepe or just take his meal ticket for 10 years? Didn’t Pepe have Bar President Russomano representing him? That’s serious juice. Pepe must have been guilty as hell. The facts don’t look so Rosy.
ReplyDeleteTo Anonymous at Saturday, April 25, 2020 12:20:00 PM:
ReplyDeleteWhat part is good about Aponte's political strategist? To have taken on a client who has lost the vote multiple times? Perhaps they can use Aponte's bankruptcy issues and lack of experience to their advantage. . .
Now Compare that with Tunis' 20 year record on the bench. I mean her experience is unmatched. Dava is obviously going to win this, poor Aponte for dragging herself into something she will inevitably lose.
The Bull Dog article explains it all. The complaining lawyer writing his self serving report, the Bar lying about who actually wrote the repot for Tunis to sign and typical Tunis signing what the complaining lawyer wrote without any inquiry. Sounds like a hachette job. This sheds a lot of new light on Judge Cueto’s report. Cueto slams the complaining lawyers writing about how the evidence showed they misrepresented who was actually paying their attorney’s fees to the Court. How it was all a theory foe defense by these complaining lawyers. A judge with any integrity would want to know is what the Florida Bull Dog wrote about who really wrote what the Bar had her sign was true and would also want to look at the evidence cited by Cueto to slam the Bar and the complaining lawyers. But this is Tunis.
ReplyDelete10:58 -am - we need to speak English. Even when babbling on. La academia hoy?
ReplyDeleteFrom your post on May 2, 2016. Four years later, still a scab. Still clawing. Still prostituting the Hispanic name.
ReplyDeleteReject Rosy.
Again.
“Anonymous Anonymous said...
Rosy Aponte, who is currently the subject of investigation by The Florida Bar, is the long time cohort of the self proclaimed king of foreclosure defense, John Ruiz, who has himself spent the batter part of the last five years mired in a myriad of cases consisting of foreclosures, repossessions, and attempts to collect debts related to his la ley "empire". Ms. Aponte luckily managed to avoid payment of her debts through a discharge she obtained in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Interestedly, Ms. Aponte's complete ineptitude has been highlighted recently by the Hon. A J Cristol who barred her from practicing before the United States Bankruptcy Court as a result of her confession that she had no clue what she was doing in a contested chapter 7 case. Ms. Aponte's stellar representation resulted in the debtor and multiple family members of the debtor, including his elderly mother being held in contempt of court, faced with incarceration and substantially sanctioned. Unbowed, in yet another case pending before the Hon. Laurel Isicoff, Ms. Aponte was ordered to show cause and sanctioned as a result of filing an unsuspecting alleged debtor in bankruptcy without ever having met her client. Her excuse was simple, someone in her office used her credentials . It is a sad day when a distinguished, hardworking and well respected jurist is challenged by a puppet who sole qualification is a hispanic last name.“
April 29 10:58 glad to see Pauli is paying attention
ReplyDeleteRump with your vast knowledge of the secretes of the Justice Building can you or your readers confirm that the Chief Judge of the criminal division and others had an intervention to counsel a judge who was experiencing substance abuse. Did any of these judges report this to the JQC. Was this judge allowed to continue to hear cases even when after the intervention.
ReplyDelete@9:32 am...not Paul. That’s just nuts how obsessed you are with him, though.
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