It is overreaction Monday, time to overreact about last week's events...Or Not.
The Chinese came to the White House last weekend and were served Mexican take-out. Overreaction? What's your Miami go-to Mex take out? Taco Rico on US1 for us.
The first-floor cafe at the hollowed-out REGJB remains closed. It used to be the place to schmooze and network and find your judge and prosecutor sharing a colada and strike a plea. Now, we barely talk -rejecting plea offers by text. The future of our (somewhat) beloved criminal courthouse looks bleak. Overreaction or a fair comment on current events?
The Straits of Hormuz remain closed. The war drags on. Republicans are going to pay the price in the midterm elections. Overreaction or just the lay of the political landscape?
The Dolphins lost again. Their future is as bleak or bleaker than the REGJB. Overreaction because the Fins hung tough with KC for most of four quarters, or just recognizing another several years of Miami losing football?
But your Miami Hurricanes are looking good. Overreaction because their schedule has been weakish?
High bond rates are threating stock equities. Overreaction because the market has mostly shrugged off the high rates, or just recognizing what Wall Street has not come to terms with yet?
The Nor'easter slammed the north-east coast of the US. Overreaction because this was no Hurricane Sandy or fair comment because lots of towns are flooded with no electricity.
Got a topic for overreaction Monday? Post it.
Enjoy the week in Miami where we assure you it is much drier than where we are.
Miami has the Dolphins an 0-3 football team.
ReplyDeleteThey can’t do much with the ball
Something we’ve always seen
Not in the air
Not on the ground
And a beer costs 15 bucks
And if you’re talking Miami and Super Bowl
We think you’re F’ing nuts!
Nothing like sipping a pina colada on a a Monday afternoon. The life of
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why do you never talk about the Corfu Channel case? Interesting and suspicious
ReplyDeleteDoes this blog still follow local judicial news?
ReplyDeleteI’m not sure what blog you’ve been reading but it hasn’t been this one and you my friend and neither a long time nor careful reader. We have NEVER “followed” local judicial news. We have reported news. We have made news. But we surely have never and will never follow local judicial news. We cannot imagine anything more pedantic and boring.
DeleteI’m just a free Lance reporter and 1st amendment auditor
DeleteI miss Judge Postman telling the prosecutor that she looked lovely in that dress from Ross Dress for Less. And then ordering the rude PD to bring donuts for everyone the next day.
ReplyDeleteThose were the days my friend.
Gators number 8. Wall Street Journal, of all things, reports on the Gators maniac weight lifting program. Overreaction or the beginning of the Baugh era?
ReplyDeleteBeginning of the era from what we saw this past Saturday
DeleteI was in Virginia Beach, VA last week and caught a little bit of bands from that storm; it's not to be taken lightly, the wind gusts were quite substantial
ReplyDeleteJudge Alan Postman was the best. So kind to all. His big personality is not seen in the meek jurists on the bench today.
ReplyDeleteRumpole, do you remember Judge Postman?
I do not share your fondness and so I will remain uncharacteristically silent.
DeleteJudge Postman was rude, obnoxious, and above all else an ignoramus. He pretended to be kind and jovial by making the comments about donuts, but that was a facade. He loathed being told he was wrong even when he was in fact wrong. He made poor rulings and terrorized people for no reason. He should have never come over to criminal court where his decisions affected people so deeply. He should have stayed in civil deciding discovery disputes.
ReplyDeleteHe was no bargain at 73 West Flagler either.
Deleteyes I agree. He was not good in criminal and hurt people to protect himself and his seat. He didn’t have the courage to do the right thing.
ReplyDeleteWeakish Hurricane schedule? That's an understatement. They play a one game schedule this year. Shameful.
ReplyDeleteIf only Marcos Ambrose had become a Judge in criminal. He had a manifesto to “cure” criminality.
ReplyDeleteRumpole, do you remember Judge Peter Adrian?
How could that have been allowed? Why didn’t anyone do something to get him out of criminal division?
Didn’t he hurt individuals by his actions?
Trivia Question from Captain Justice:
ReplyDeleteWho remembers the candidate who beat Postman, unseating the incumbent.
Diane Ward ?
DeleteNo Googling or use of AI.
ReplyDeleteDiane Ward is correct. In 2002, she crushed Postman garnering 56% of the vote. She was reelected twice without opposition. She retired from the bench in 2019 at the end of her third term.
ReplyDeleteWhat ever happened to Judge Peter Adrian - the law and order judge?
ReplyDeleteHe got his ass kicked in an election and rightfully so. I’ll join in theCaptain’s trivia game and ask who beat Adrian ? Hint- still on the bench.
ReplyDeleteSamantha Ruiz Cohen. And even though her name makes her perfectly electable in Dade County, she's a fine jurist IMHO having appeared before her many times in Civil.
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DeleteJudge Adrian only received 30% of the vote. He thought he was a tough macho judge. From what I heard he gave excessive sentences out which other lawyers were later able to mitigate.
ReplyDeleteAny stories from lawyers who dealt with him and his mean vindictive sentences? Are some defendants still suffering in prison decades after being sentenced for a crime they should have gotten probation or a few years?
Sickening to me.
Peter "Camacho" Adrien lost badly to Samantha Ruiz Cohen. He has or had a law firm "Former Judges Law". I saw him once in REG within last few years. I was a a PD in his division for a good year, he was the dumbest judge I ever appeared in front of, and combined that legal acumen with Ramiro Areces' sentencing philosophy. Why he was in criminal I have no idea, he had no criminal experience but that was probably true of every legal field, Joel Brown was the chief judge, ask him. He won an election in 2004 with the Camacho name against a judge with an Anglo name.
ReplyDeleteInteresting trivia would be last time that a judge with a white anglo male name who was not an incumbent won an election in Miami Dade. I don't know the answer but its gotta be a long time.
They sat him in Civil at 73 W Flagler for a while for some reason. I brought a junior associate to motion calendar one day (I remember this vividly even though many years ago now) and had him walk-through an agreed order after a motion was resolved, thinking this would be good courtroom experience on an uncontested, routine matter. Judge A was a total prick to the associate as well as other attorneys at motion calendar (there was no dispute-everything agreed and resolved so walking through the order was ministerial). I sat there thinking, "this guy's toast." And sure as shit he was soon gone by the next election cycle.
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ReplyDeletePeter adrien still practices some family law locally.
I’ve spoken about this publicly before. Judge Adrien sentenced a defendant who pled open to a drug 7 yr min man to 30 years. The defendant was in his mid 20s with no priors and the drug amount was just over the min man. I was hired and moved to set aside the plea. He could not have been more rude to me and (thankfully) said on the record “why would anyone put their hands in the life of a judge?” I went to the 3rd on the denial of the motion to set aside the plea and the oral argument went like this : “counsel we read your brief. Thank you. “ I sat down and watched three judges rip into the AAG for opposing my appeal, with one asking “do you have any idea how long 30 years is?” Appeal granted and Adrien ordered to recuse himself. Client pled to 7 got out got a degree, got a great job, has a family, and calls me at least once a year to thank me for what occurred.
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