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Monday, August 10, 2020

REBULL RIPOSTE

 The comments sections are abuzz with the back and forth over Judge Rebull who is up for election. 

This letter was sent to Judge Soto. A copy was sent to us. We invite both sides to send us their thoughts which we promise to post on the blog without editorial.



August 9, 2019 Letter to Judge Soto 8.9.2019 by HR on Scribd

40 comments:

Anonymous said...

If that is true I need to amend my mail-in ballot.

Anonymous said...

Tom really needs to stop being a bully. He does it everywhere he goes. We have enough of them in robes right now. Bullies: Jeri Cohen, Dava Tunis, Richard Hersch, Milton Hirsch, Ed Newman, Betty Butchko, David Miller, Pedro Echarte, Al Milian, and Gene Fierro to name a few. Worse of the worse, Jeri Cohen, who retires next month. Good by Jeri.

That job can be done well without being a bully. Just watch Catherine Pooler, Peter Lopez, Bill Altfield, Veronica Diaz, Luise Krieger-Martin, Robin Faber, Maria Ortiz, Michelle Barakat, Dawn Denaro, Spencer Multack, Andrea Wolfson, Charlie Johnson, Marisa Tinkler-Mendez and really nice guy new comer, Ramiro Areces. Best of the best, Peter Lopez with close seconds, Andrea Wolfson and Ramiro Areces.

I'm just sayin...

Anonymous said...

This letter is a smear against Judge Rebull. He denied a continuance to a pro se plaintiff who happened to be Haitian. There is no evidence that the judge showed any bias against the man because of his race. NONE. And why did his lawyer withdraw? My guess is that the plaintiff had no case. I have appeared before Judge Rebull on many civil matters. Win some. Lose some. But to infer that he treated someone differently because of race or gender is simply outrageous.

Anonymous said...

please post the transcript

Anonymous said...

If only it were the denial of a continuance. Read the transcript.

Rumpole said...

Email me the transcript and I will post it.

Anonymous said...

I have appeared before Judge Rebull in Civil where a pro se plaintiff was on the other side. He had no choice but to proceed. He bent over backwards to assist the plaintiff, and even allowed his wife to "help." The parties were Black. I have never seen any indication of bias on this man's part. I also have not seen the transcript. The ability to get judges of Judge Rebull's talents and EARNING CAPACITY are very limited. He has chosen to make the people his client. we are lucky, and the next time you want to libel someone, why not get more of the facts.

Anonymous said...

If Judge Rebull actually allowed a non lawyer, who was not a party, to address a jury under the circumstances described, he should be removed from the bench.

@ 8:15 I agree with the list.

@ 8:18 were you the attorney for the other side? Otherwise, how would you know what happened that particular day in Rebull's courtroom.

Hopefully someone sends the transcript to Rumpole and we call all see for ourselves.

Good to hear Jeri Cohen is retiring, she will not be missed.

Anonymous said...

IS Jeri Beth Cohen really leaving next month? We need to have a party to celebrate her leaving. What a nightmare that lady has been.

I will never forgive her for the comment about all Cubans being criminals. I think it was like if you sent all the Cubans back to Cuba, our jails would be empty. Nice coming from that big mouth moron.

I'm Cuban and my whole family are Cubans and not one has been arrested.

Adios Jueza Cohen!

Anonymous said...

On the day the continuance was denied, there was no interpreter present. This guy was a non-English speaking Haitian. His attorney later appeared on another day trying to get that order set aside. I do not believe there was a court reporter present the first time either. Doubtful u will be able to find a transcript.

Anonymous said...

All this Rebull bitching is absurd. The guy was rated EXCEPTIONALLY QUALIFIED by 64% of lawyers in the judicial poll. Do you idiots know how many judges even get 60% of lawyers to agree they are EXCEPTIONALLY QUALIFIED? 10. 10 out of over 120 judges. Rebull is one of them. Look at the company he is in...Hanzman, Soto, Sayfie, De la O, Kelly, Walsh, Lopez, Tunis, Arzola, Bailey. Not even the great and wonderful Leifman could crack 60% and you clowns want to vote Rebull out because he hurt your feelings? Grow the f**k up!

Anonymous said...

This is not a "smear" of Judge Rebull. He's smart, but a bully. He clearly thought he could get away with running over a pro se litigant--and forcing him to trial in two days. Who was the pro se litigant going to complain to? And who was going to take a pro se litigant's word
over that of the judge? Fortunately, there was a record of what occurred, and a Bar Ass'n chose to complain. A Bar Ass'n can get attention, where an individual pro se litigant can't.

Anonymous said...

The letter said there was a transcript. Why would you print the letter without it?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous 8:15. The fact that you consider all those judges bullies is more a reflection on your own insecurities and propensity to be bullied than their actions.

Samuel Danziger said...

Nine years on the bench. Not unexpected, typical of some on the bench today.

Anonymous said...

100% agree with you. Why do people want to become judges simply to act like this? Many of them need to go and he is one of them.

Anonymous said...

Before your day is over, happy birthday, Rumpole!

Mike Vera said...

I’ve read the letter and honestly could not disagree more. I am an attorney for one of the Defendants in the case who is also Haitian, as are all the parties to this dispute, and who is related to the Plaintiff. The case is over eight years old in part because the Plaintiff is on his fourth attorney. Also the claim that the plaintiff was acting pro se at the time of trial is completely false. The Plaintiff was represented by two attorneys and only one withdrew. Any claim of bias by Judge Rebull against the Plaintiff is ridiculous and unsupported by the record (which is available for anyone to review.) I think we all agree that the integrity of the system and the right of all to access equal and fair justice is paramount. Judge Rebull’s actions in the case that day, and after, ensured those principles. Judge Rebull did not demonstrate bias against any party that day on the basis of their national origin, and any claim to the contrary is simply disingenuous.

Anonymous said...

Which poll? The ones where only a couple hundred lawyers vote and you have to be a member even to participate? They are about as valid as a homecoming king/queen election. 64% of what, how many? Percentages are meaningless unless you know how many people voted.

Anonymous said...

What passes for intelligence in this town is utterly ridiculous.

Anonymous said...

He forced a non-lawyer to conduct a jury trial. End of story.

Anonymous said...

So, based on what Mike Vera said, you hav slandered a judge because you failed to do your homework

Anonymous said...

Make the bar association post the transcript, or take down their letter.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Vera,

Please send the transcript to Rumpole so we all can see.

Anonymous said...

Mike Vera I think you should tread lightly in defense of Judge Rebull when as an officer of the court you sat there and watched him bully a non lawyer who wasn't even a party to the litigation into conducting a jury trial and you never once spoke up. Not to mention that the Plaintiff's daughter, who was only there to translate for her father, repeatedly objected to the proceedings. Since she was forced to act as her father's lawyer, her father had no idea what was happening because no one was translating for him. Then at the end of the proceeding he had the AUDACITY to threaten her with the unauthorized practice of law!! If the judge wanted to go forward with the trial so badly he should have never permitted her lawyer to withdraw 5 days before before clearly stating in his order that the plaintiff had 30 days to retain a new lawyer. I've read the entire transcript of the proceeding, which was a huge miscarriage of justice. At best it wreaked of a tone-deaf judge who definitely has judgment issues, and at worst it was flat out racist. Although they were also Haitian as it was a family dispute over property, please understand that your clients were likely only treated well because they had two lawyers in suits sitting at the table speaking up for them.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Rump,

Recall your prior posts, "mr. 5000", "mr. 4000", etc.

Your view was that we should have shut down again and further crush the blue collar families who work paycheck to paycheck and cannot telework like you and your rich friends. Despite your fearmongering that "Emergency rooms could be overwhelmed", you were completely wrong, and desantis completely right.

Any other totally wrong predictions youd like to make?

Anonymous said...

Amazing. Voters in Miami Dade should know about things like this instead of just seeing pics of these guys posing with their families. All that "Trust me, I'm a family person" is such bull.

Anonymous said...

What say you about the fact that no Creole interpreter wax present to assist the Plaintiff, who spoke very little English? How was he supposed to question jurors and cross examine witnesses? The 2nd transcript is now available, where his other lawyer tried to get this set aside.

Anonymous said...

This is disturbing. I don't care how good his ratings are, if he allowed a lawyer to withdraw 2 days before trial then the litigant needs to be given the time to get another lawyer. To allow the litigant and a person off the street, black or white, to do a jury trial is a mockery of due process. What was he thinking? Did someone say he was bending over backward to help the pro se?

Anonymous said...

I have a bigger question - why is there no docket available for this case? It does not come up under the plaintiff's name - at all. How can this be?

Mike - what is the case number? Did he have 30 days to get a new lawyer or not? Was the trial prior to the 30 days running?

Somebody is not accurate here.

Anonymous said...

Mystery solved. They have the name spelled wrong - it is Petithomme.

The docket and orders reflect the following:

May 23, 2019 - Order granting motion to withdraw - Plaintiff given 30 days.

NEXT DAY - May 24, 2019 - Judge enters trial order - JURY - setting case for May 28, 2019

May 28, 2019 - Trial and DV

The case was set for the three week period beginning on May 13 - which means the judge permitted the attorney to withdraw during the trial setting, ordered that he had 30 days, then the next day noticed it for trial and made the guy proceed. In post trial motions, the defendant's attorneys argued that the 30 days was confusing and he actually didn't have 30 days.

Also, the case was 8 years old, but a default in favor of the plaintiff was set aside only weeks before the trial...so...looks like a tough one.

BUT - On August 9, 2019 - Rebull granted a motion for new trial and vacated the judgment. He then recused. Good on the judge for fixing it, and it kind of makes you wonder why Ferguson wrote the letter - the party on the other side seems to be related to the plaintiff, so kind of hard to understand why it is a race issue.

So...looks like in the end, the Jduge did the right thing.

What is weird now, is that the lawyer who wrote into our blog, tried the case to a jury against a pro se plaintiff, but now the judgment is vacated, is arguing that the same plaintiff doesn't have a right to a jury trial - do you mind explaining that one? Why the concern about a lawyer on the other side of a case in front of a jury?

Anonymous said...

James Comey would be proud of you Rumpole. You actually one-upped him; as this is a year-old matter that was resolved at the time. really surprised that you would be the pawn of one candidate against another in a Judicial campaign by releasing this at this time. all three people who signed the letter were satisfied with the results of their meeting with Judge Rebull. One of the people in that meeting, attorney Markenzy Lapointe, donated money to the judge's campaign after this, and has publicly supported him. This is a mischaracterization and misleading to your readers; presumably people who are sensitive to people being wrongly accused.

Rumpole said...

2:39 yes you moron there is more to say. ER rooms were overwhelmed. So were ICU units. Thousands of Floridians died you asshole truth denying piece of crap. Go crawl back into the hole you wormed out of.

Anonymous said...

August 9 vacated judgment. August 9 is date associations sent letter. Coincidence??

Rumpole said...

Hey Asshole!

Of the 1,282 U.S. deaths reported Tuesday, Florida and Georgia recorded their highest single-day death tolls since the start of the pandemic, with 277 and 122, respectively, according to a data analysis by The Washington Post. Tuesday marked the first time Georgia has exceeded 100 deaths in a day and its highest reported seven-day average.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, Florida hospitals were never overwhelmed. And I guess these doctors died of fictional causes.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/hialeah/article244857732.html

Anonymous said...

If you seriously think a group of lawyers have our best interests at heart what are you on?

the trialmaster said...

Looks like Rebull had a very bad day and was led down the path of reversible error by the defendants attorney. Clearly, any attorney with experience would have realized that by not granting a continuance when the party had been provided 30 days to obtain counsel would be reversed immediately by the 3d. Although, that does not excuse Rebull's actions. He is not the sharpest knife in drawer for sure. I was impressed by the daughter standing up and continually asking for more time to obtain counsel. If she is prosecuted for unlicensed practice, Rebull should be sanctioned as an "aider and abetter". Maybe Aponte will come to the rescue and have her first jury trial.

Anonymous said...

I think it's ridiculous that we're supposed to give Judge Rebull brownie points for granting the motion for new trial. The minute anyone with even a moment of self interest reads that motion for new trial their blood would run cold. Judge Rebull knew now that an actual lawyer is on the case, if they take an appeal the Third District's opinion about the insane miscarriage of justice that occurs in that transcript would be absolutely brutal. And all you would have to do is type his name on westlaw to see it, not order a transcript of some obscure hearing that might have never seen the light of day.

He might be a murderer, but at least he knows how to hide the bodies well. Give me a break.

Anonymous said...

Did Judge Rebull wrote this?