It all started sixteen years ago today in 2005. Just a neophyte blogger, who was a superb writer and was and is a successful criminal defense lawyer who decided to blog on one of the most fascinating subjects we could imagine: the stories and people of the REGJB.
Here is our welcome post from November 16, 2005:
WELCOME POST
Welcome to the Justice Building Blog.
My Name is Horace Rumpole.
We seek comments, rumors, and stories on any and all Miami Justice Building habituates, Judges, Prosecutors, Attorneys, and defendants. While we (the royal we) will not be libelous, and we will not pick on those not able to defend themselves [ insert your favorite judge here] , we love a good story about a Judge or lawyer putting his or her foot in their mouth. A juicy rumor that is not too harmful will also be posted.
The writing at first was a bit awkward; it took time for us to find our groove. We were surprised along the way as well. For example the blog became a place to mourn friends who departed. Family members wrote us, telling us they took comfort in the many memories posted about their loved ones.
We've scooped the Herald from time to time, although we are most certainly not well trained reporters. We skewered arrogant and mean Broward Judges, and took pleasure doing so. Still do. We've taken down a judge, shocked at the level of racism that populated his language and chambers.
Along the way we became a small part of the Miami Legal Community, known simply as "The Blog". "Did you see what is on the blog today?" became a refrain we heard countless times in the halls of the REGJB. And that made us proud.
But mostly we have had a whole lot of fun and enjoyment writing about the people and clients who populate a building that has been a central figure in our life.
This is our 4,558th Post! Thank you dear readers for logging on and reading.
H, Rumpole, Esq., Blog Proprietor.
21 comments:
Please remind us: which judge did you take down?
And still very much in the shadow of DOM's blog. But keep trying!
Happy birthday! Could you please finally explain why you are so vociferous about using a different pen name to post information about judicial appointments / elections?
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
Horace.
Congratulations on 16 years of blogging and on the success of your blog.
Thank you for providing me a thread over all those years so I could report on the JNC, judicial appointments, judicial elections, and other things related to our Justice Building.
Captain Justice Out …….
Captain4Justice@gmail.com
The Blog has proven to be a great service to the attorneys and broader community. A true forum for the exchange of ideas and recommendations for improvement. It quickly moved past the unfounded rumors and mean attacks, and you deserve a lot of credit for evolving and growing it along the way. Congrats.
A wonderful 16 years, your blog is essential reading for the South Fla practitioner
Final 12 jurors chosen by lottery in the Rittenhouse trial
Bizarre. This morning, in the Rittenhouse trial, a raffle drum was placed in front of the defendant. 18 numbers, representing the 18 jurors, were placed in the drum. The defendant then randomly chose six numbers out of the drum. Those six became the alternate jurors.
"All of the jurors' numbers have been exhibited to the defendant, I believe. They're paper clipped together now. Please put them in the tumbler and we'll rotate it and the defendant will draw six of the numbers," Judge Bruce Schroeder said.
The final jury consist of seven women and five men.
Cap Out .......
congrats on an unbelievable run!
12:58- not only a different pen name- BUT IT'S A DIFFERENT PERSON
otherwise I wouldn't go through the trouble.
Very strange way to select final jurors. It would be difficult to craft a closing argument if you do not know the final composition of the jury. However, that is one of joys of trying cases in other jurisdictions in that they all differ in one way or the other. I find that challenging and interesting the way other jurisdictions handle trials.
1257
You are perhaps the only one who thinks that.
DOM regularly engages of censoring comments that offend his political sensibilities. The comments he censors most frequently are those critical of him.
This blog is a free flow of ideas. Rump is wrong just as much as DOM, but he isnt a phony afraid to publish a critical comment.
41 months for the schizophrenic shaman who used no violence when he trespassed on 1/6. Congrats to all the libs out there like DOM and Rump, and save your BS phony concern about overincarceration.
This comment will not be posted on phony DOMs blog, because is would be censored!
Congratulations, appreciate you being there all these years.
Stop it with the politics; let’s talk law, sports, pop culture. Stifle 12:20 and 12:28
41 mos. is not enough for an anarchist who violently led a mob into the US Capital and injured officers intentionally in the process. He's lucky that's all it was.
1257 u must be joking..this blog is 100x more interesting than the other one.
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:
THE DADE COUNTY COURTHOUSE RE-OPENS ON DEC. 6, 2021
Back from the dead, resurrected, and structurally safe, Judge Sayfie has made the tough call and re-opened the historic building.
Cap Out .......
Good to hear from the Q'Anon Shaman's mom.
12:28 Words and actions do matter … and why is this a libs v. cons issue? If this was an Antifa looney you would be yelling that he deserved life in prison. We need to de-politicize things and just look at the facts. And the facts called for such a sentence to be imposed, irregardless of his political beliefs.
822
Why is this a libs v cons issue?
You're joking right?
Libs are literally rooting for maximum incarceration. Look at 523s comment. Totally typical. When it comes to punishment of one's political opponents, they are insatiable. 41 f'in months?
Libs are the people who whine about overincarceration as if they really care about it. The truth is they are phonies pretending to care only when its a black person getting mistreated. Only then do their politics allow them to speak up, because everything has to further the systemic racism narrative blah blah blah.
Take rump your average lib. He professes *all the time* to be adamantly against overincarceration, post about it all the time. But have you seen him mention the 1/6 sentences as excessive? No, not a f'in word.
Take DOM another lib. He professes *all the time* to care about prosecutorial misconduct. He waxes on and on every opportunity he gets about how there have to be ***consequences*** and judges have to hold prosecutors to account blah blah blah. Do you hear him saying the Rittenhouse case (the most widely discussed case nationwide at the moment) must be dismissed for all the shenanigans that we have seen so far? No, instead we get crickets and a stupid boring post about bagley getting 6 mo.
Let me break it down for you: libs are phonies. They are pretenders. They have no actual ***principles***. By their silence and refusal to speak out, they are totally unprincipled hacks.
"If this was an Antifa looney you would be yelling that he deserved life in prison."
Dead wrong. I do think we have been generally too soft on antifa, especially in portland. I had no problem with the mass dismissal of nonviolent charges (quite the difference compared to 1/6, dont you think?). But you simply cannot dismiss rioting cases where violence is used. They deserve at least a few months in jail.
So yes, 1/6 prosecutions are WAY too aggressive and excessively punitive. And some antifa cases have been improperly dismissed.
The shaman case is infuriating. I see this guy, watched him on tv being a jackass, and immediately thought he was probably mentally ill. The guy was wearing a fing viking costume for God's sake. Then we come to find out he is schizophrenic, and that he came to believe the qanon conspiracy theories.
I see a case like that and I feel sympathy for the guy. I thank God I'm not schizophrenic and have a normal brain, a normal family, a normal life. My normal brain means I'm not stupid enough to belive the stop the steal nonsense.
What do libs see? They see the embodiment of trump. They feel the thirst for punishment.
It's sad.
8:14: this is a happy birthday thread to the blog. If you are going to make good points (I am not saying what I agreed with), send it in an essay and ask Rumpole to post it so we can debate it there.
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