tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post1803856725932781105..comments2024-03-29T08:14:13.708-04:00Comments on THE BLOG: FUN AT DCJRumpolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08380575650255695462noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-18464545530866296412010-05-26T09:55:07.242-04:002010-05-26T09:55:07.242-04:00This story id do true - imagine being an inmate. ...This story id do true - imagine being an inmate. You have Director Ryan and his cronies to thank for this hell of a mess with Dept. of Corrections. I have been an officer here for over 27 years...I cant wait to retire and RUN out the door. This place is a fiasco, no one wants to work, they are either doing their nails, plaing solitare on the computer, treating people like total pond scum or they do exactly what they did to this Attorney.....imagine if it ever ran smoothly....will never happen...too many illiterate people working in that Department....too many chiefs, Director Ryan cant even tie his shoes......dumb as a box of rocks....he has no clue - he is a wanna be cop !!!! But he will let a Captain keep her job even though she was charged with 4 felonies, bragging how the Judge was her personal friend....shame on you !!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-73136585542120501032010-05-25T15:30:37.539-04:002010-05-25T15:30:37.539-04:00The reason I dont want to work for Regional Counse...The reason I dont want to work for Regional Counsel is because the judges seem to make the attorney's go to the jail. I hate the jail and dont like to send discovery there either. Too many snitches!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-45054310412660425382010-05-25T11:05:15.889-04:002010-05-25T11:05:15.889-04:009:33..........I'm not that clever, lol.
BTDT
...9:33..........I'm not that clever, lol.<br /><br />BTDT<br /><br />PS---I do appreciate your thinking that I'm Brian Tannenbaum; I've always had a lot of respect for him and consider him a friend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-74077889960497270212010-05-25T10:39:49.572-04:002010-05-25T10:39:49.572-04:00I am troubled with Florida leading the nation in j...I am troubled with Florida leading the nation in juveniles serving life sentences for nonhomicide crimes.<br /><br />As lawyers, I understand on the prosecutorial end, one fights for the victim and has to be passionate because someone needs to stick up for them.<br /><br />On the defense end, one fights for the client because the job is not done if every tactic is not exhausted in getting the not guilty or the least worst outcome for the client.<br /><br />Somewhere in between though, we have to step out of either role as lawyers and look at what's happening to our society as a whole.<br /><br />Every day, the passions of public outcry demand more and more ways to legislate morality. With a flood of min mans, sentencing guidelines and new crimes on the books that continue to make more previously unregulated acts and more criminal, the amount of people becoming criminals is not necessarily because more criminals are being born and bred.<br /><br />We make policy choices to criminalize certain things and to increase penalties as our prisons are exploding with more people than they can handle. Granted, that's what the Legislature's for and assumedly we defer to them.<br /><br />But sometimes they get things dead wrong. And misguided judges can compound those wrongs all the more.<br /><br />I recognize these juveniles act like scumbags and do horrific things that I'd be angered about too if it happened to someone I loved. But we as a society ought to treat them differently because they are growing, impressionable and sometimes just need a swift kick in the pants. Or maybe a few kicks.<br /><br />I don't think kneejerk reactions of - let them think about what they did for the rest of their lives in prison is the solution. We have grown adults committing homicides who do less time. And there is a racial disparity in how these kids are treated from investigation to arrest to interrogation to prosecution to conviction to sentencing.<br /><br />The racial disparities are real but more often than not they are de facto rather than some sinister conspiracy to target one group. Anyone who argues deterrence is not being realistic. Harsh sentences are handed out but that doesn't stop people. Particularly knuckle headed snot nosed brats.<br /><br />We can't just settle for warehousing people.Toy Storynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-60080404039306599622010-05-25T07:48:15.741-04:002010-05-25T07:48:15.741-04:00Privatize the Clerk's Office! Contract out to ...Privatize the Clerk's Office! Contract out to Apple! Can you imagine Genius Bar at the REGJB? Pull up the court file on your iPhone. Order records, and they magically print out from printers attached under the counter ... all for a low monthly price of $200 to AT&T!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-25566990291679968782010-05-24T21:33:41.922-04:002010-05-24T21:33:41.922-04:00I have always thought BTDT was Brian Tannebaum wit...I have always thought BTDT was Brian Tannebaum with a hint built in (BT)DTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-1442834984251181182010-05-24T21:31:15.879-04:002010-05-24T21:31:15.879-04:002:25 here.
You're welcome.
I think its like ...2:25 here.<br /><br />You're welcome.<br /><br />I think its like you said. Somewhere in there, people with a certain agenda came in and twisted the original message in a way you never intended.<br /><br />I'd like to think at heart, we're Equal Opportunity potshot takers, not ones that try to cry that "the sky is falling" because we're constantly griping about "immigrants flooding the borders" and "barbarians at the gate."<br /><br />No offense was ever taken.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-39269914554770609682010-05-24T19:11:19.999-04:002010-05-24T19:11:19.999-04:0011:35:00 .......... I always do what I think is ri...11:35:00 .......... I always do what I think is right, regardless of who it pisses off. Despite my success at the SAO and the many wonderful friends I made, I bet that I angered or frustrated more of my ranking colleagues while there then most defense attorneys. I was well known for my brutal honesty. <br /><br />BTDTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-31012547451283114502010-05-24T16:07:13.406-04:002010-05-24T16:07:13.406-04:00To 8:49: Maybe if you could spell correctly, you ...To 8:49: Maybe if you could spell correctly, you would get more clients. An "intern" is a temporary office worker who volunteers his or her time. "In turn" means what you intended. "Hand full" is not a correct usage of what you want to say. The correct word is handful. This sounds picayune but the way a person writes reflects the way that person thinks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-2169408972027152532010-05-24T15:25:06.347-04:002010-05-24T15:25:06.347-04:00Saturday 9:46 am. - Thank you for your illuminatin...Saturday 9:46 am. - Thank you for your illuminating and objective insight, Ms. Ruiz-Cohen. Adrien is a disgrace and needs to be replaced.<br /><br />However, to be fair, despite your "experience" some 14 years ago, you aren't all that much better. After a 10 year absence from the practice of law, I don't think your being a Circuit Judge as your "come-back" job (with the possibility of being assigned to felonies) is a whole lot better.<br /><br />But, all in all, anything has to be an improvement over Adrien, albeit not much of one,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-21769004086619576072010-05-24T15:17:43.924-04:002010-05-24T15:17:43.924-04:00Okay, let's ratchet this down a little. It is...Okay, let's ratchet this down a little. It is getting out of hand. Race is always a discussion that brings out the best in some and unfortunately the worst in most of us.<br /><br />Does it really matter what race the corrections officer or the lawyer were. The CO's were idiots giving this lawyer a hard time for reasons that have nothing to do with what is in the post. Maybe it was just a matter of: it is not what you say, but how you say it.<br /><br />Why do some people have to lower themselves to their least common denominator instead of finding the common ground? Isn't it bad enough that our politicians behave that way, do we now follow their lead instead of rejecting that path?<br /><br />And to you provacateurs out there, STOP. Give us all a break from your illegitimate agenda.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-50122561761677688202010-05-24T15:04:26.943-04:002010-05-24T15:04:26.943-04:00It's not only government. The Advocate Progra...It's not only government. The Advocate Program, which is a private company, operates much like the Clerk's Office or DMV with poor customer service, refusal to assist attorneys, and failure to return phone calls.<br /><br />Then again, think about customer service around here (South Florida) in general. I was in a Subway the other week and some teenage girl had her cellphone glued to her ear while she (disdainfully) made my sandwich.<br /><br />It might be regional. Bad attitudes prevail around here. Just look at the drivers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-12237442756974127202010-05-24T14:34:36.992-04:002010-05-24T14:34:36.992-04:00THANK YOU 2:25. The cite to the Grapes Of Wrath wa...THANK YOU 2:25. The cite to the Grapes Of Wrath was right on point and made me feel better. <br /><br />I have spent my adult life fighting for people. I admit to being upset and my post was in a way condescending because the sad fact is those women could not read very well; they could not communicate in a professional manner; because of that I waited hours over the course of a few days to just try and see my client. <br /><br /> I know for certain I never lost my temper with them or was condescending because I was never given the chance. Every time I tried to speak one of the woman would say "wait here" and walk away, depriving me of even the opportunity to be rude. <br /><br />I was frustrated but not because of their particular race. A white male co doing that to me ( and they have in the past) would have engendered the same sarcastic response from me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-13313454429693678552010-05-24T14:25:57.714-04:002010-05-24T14:25:57.714-04:00I am a black attorney, who has had just as many ru...I am a black attorney, who has had just as many run in's with the Corrections Officers as some others have. I'm not going to say they're morons. I'm not going to say they're terribly efficient. They're like every bureaucracy: they gravitate towards telling you no unless you jump through hoops and hurdles one day and they're nice the next day. Sometimes its smooth sailing for a time, then suddenly you get the wrong combination of people and things go wrong.<br /><br />Doesn't matter if the CO is black, Hispanic, white or otherwise. Bureaucracy is bureaucracy. You could privatize things, but would it really make things that much better? When private corporations hire people for next to minimum wage to maximize their profit potential, is that really going to result in better quality service? Have none of you ever had a run in with a private sector security guard or two who wants to act like a glorified cop and tries to push their weight around and make trouble? Or maybe you have if you've tried to enter a building and have problems with the scanner machine and a guard who barely speaks English.<br /><br />"Birth of a Nation" was a 1915 flick that was the highest grossing in its day. It was directed and produced by American film great pioneer D.W. Griffith. Much of what I have read in these posts seem very remiscient of the imagery portrayed in the movie.<br /><br />Lazy, shiftless, ignorant. The film portrayed what would happen to America if blacks were placed in government, positions of power, etc. It was a scare tactic to America, that the Klan was really the savior of the land, the knights in white coming to save the day from blacks that threatened to overrun our way of life.<br /><br />Nowadays, the Tea Party pretty much fills that role and relies on the same imagery. That somehow Barack and other blacks, Hispanics, immigrants, etc. in power are destroying what made this country great.<br /><br />Absolutely disgusting. I actually didn't think the post was ebonics or taking a shot at minorities. The phonetic rendition was misleading but if you ever read the Grapes of Wrath, would you think everyone in that book was black because of Steinbeck's use of it?<br /><br />And people wonder why minorities feel so disenfranchised all the time, when this race crap is tossed in our face so much? I'm not a big Justice Thomas fan, but I'm starting to see a little of his logic. He always complains that society makes huge errors constantly, because people come in with assumptions and preconceptions that somehow minorities are inferior (and thus needing help) and any differentiation continues to feed into this lamebrained stereotype.<br /><br />In a way he's right. Minorities are in no way different from anyone else. Poor is poor. Rich is rich. Uneducated is uneducated. You can sit there and take potshots and claim, "They never try hard enough!"<br /><br />"Obviously, the corrections officers were black. You can tell by their stupid language and ignorance." - 12:12:00 PM<br /><br />You already engaged in racism by the time you did that. Because you just started lumping people together and making blanket assumptions, like always and that's why things don't change, no matter how much you claim, "Oh wait, I'm not a racist, really I'm not, I just am a realist who's willing to call a spade a spade, that's not the same thing." Spare me the trip down condescension lane.<br /><br />Please, give me a freakin' break.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-54128023263411353272010-05-24T13:46:53.901-04:002010-05-24T13:46:53.901-04:00I am the attorney who went to the Jail. I happen t...I am the attorney who went to the Jail. I happen to be a lifetime member of the NAACP. I am truly aghast that there is a "stench of racism" attached to my email. <br /><br />I was angry and frustrated and tried to turn that anger outward in a humorous way. <br /><br />I wish I had a video tape of the incident. I was constantly saying "I'm sorry- I don't understand what you are saying to me." At some point the frustration of waiting hours over the course of four days before I got into the jail grew into anger that some of these women could neither read a fairly simple order nor effectively communicate with me as to what the problem was. <br /><br />At least one of this women appeared to me to be white/light hispanic from New York and the quotes of "dis" and "dat" happened to be a thick brooklyn or bronx accent and had nothing to do with my mocking the way african americans are often portrayed. I am of an age when a thick NY accent was often portrayed in the movies and TV in a humorous way, and that's how it appeared to me at the time. <br /><br />All I can say it that I am glad I stirred a hornets nest up vis a vis corrections and I am very very concerned that people view my email as an attack on a person of color. It is not. I do admit it is an attack on people of limited schooling based on my frustration on having to deal with them. Perhaps in that regard I should have been more sensitive. I again admit I was very angry and frustrated at having to try and explain why I was entitled to see my client.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-76970050347161077402010-05-24T12:19:10.882-04:002010-05-24T12:19:10.882-04:00Entertaining. I sympathize. I am awful at handli...Entertaining. I sympathize. I am awful at handling people with any authority who are not nice about it. But in retelling the story I would have left out the phonetic transcriptions as well. I find not only that the absence of oxbridge pronunciation tells you roughly nothing about a person's intellect, but also that a person's intellect predicts roughly nothing about his helpfulness in a rules-based, institutional setting. The last such person who treated me ill seemed intelligent enough. She simply seemed, if you'll forgive the mixed metaphor, a real prick by nature and avocation.<br /><br />Off-topic, why are we talking about CDOs and hedgies here? My advice (and for a change, this is my field) is not to his a PM who wastes his time explaining his strategy to potential clients. His job is to manage portfolios, not talk to you. Any fund worth hiring has skilled professionals to intermediate this process. Talk to them. And if you do succeed in get an actual investment professional to the table, you immediately know his schedule includes lots of time for potential clients, hence less time for portfolio management.<br /><br />Better yet, quite honestly: save your money and index. 2-and-20 goes a long, long way to equalizing any alpha advantage even a great hund might have.wcwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16307608293310560164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-54120037298129138572010-05-24T12:12:48.725-04:002010-05-24T12:12:48.725-04:00Obviously, the corrections officers were black. Y...Obviously, the corrections officers were black. You can tell by their stupid language and ignorance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-42099007118399440192010-05-24T11:35:28.738-04:002010-05-24T11:35:28.738-04:00If I was a criminal defendant, I don't think t...If I was a criminal defendant, I don't think that I'd like to have BTDT as my attorney. He seems like one of these ex-prosecutors who charge ridiculous fees and then plead all of their clients guilty because they don't want to piss off any of their buddies in the SAO and they have only hatred for their own clients. Give me an attorney who wants to mix it up with the SAO any day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-32476684104326389772010-05-24T09:47:19.303-04:002010-05-24T09:47:19.303-04:009:09 be happy to go with you. I am baffled becaus...9:09 be happy to go with you. I am baffled because I have never had anything even close to that happen. As to health issues, I have had cleint issues there, but it has been at the clinic level, not C.O.s. A lot of the clinic doctors take the same attitude towards inmates as an insenitive vet does towards an animal. One exception is Dr. Joe Poitier in the Psych group. JoeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-29564791181236728542010-05-24T08:49:31.103-04:002010-05-24T08:49:31.103-04:00Rump:
How about the correction officers who are r...Rump:<br /><br />How about the correction officers who are referring case to certain bailbondsman, who intern are referring the cases to a hand full of attorneys. How about they address this issue. I was hired by the family of a client about three months ago, had a bondsman interlope and a female attorney, whom the family had never met, and who could not have possibly met with the client, show up at the bnond hearing. Long and short of it, I lost the new client, and lost crediabolity with a valuable source of referrals. And yes, I was turned away at the jail. So, why don't they clean house. Here is how it works, the intake personnel at corrections allow the arrestees to use a phone, provided they call the number (of the bondsman) the corrections personnel recommend. A major player in this "dialing for bonds" is a bondsman located on 36st. in Virginian Gardens, who is apparently tight with some folks in corrections, this bondsman is tight with a certain female lawyer, to whom this bondsman referres all "his" case. No, let Correction and Publc Corruprion investigate. Hey why not start by the phone toll records of the personnel working intake and processing and the the phones at corrections, trust me they will find the players.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-19819720203449045812010-05-24T08:25:25.292-04:002010-05-24T08:25:25.292-04:0011:37:00 PM......you're right. I have no prob...11:37:00 PM......you're right. I have no problem with the state leading the country in incarcerating juveniles. After all, somebody has to and I believe that some of these offenders deserve life sentences.<br /><br />I DO, however, have a problem with the fact that our juvenile system is a complete failure (it fails to adequately punish people, deter crime or rehabilitate offenders). I believe that if we adequately addressed people when they FIRST entered the system through good programming, etc., we'd drive down the crime rate, change offender behavior and save tax dollars. For the most part, we should reserve harsh sanctions for those we're scared of, not mad at.<br /><br />Not everything is as black and white as you make it seem. The point of my prior posts was not that EVERY juvenile who commits a series of violent crimes deserves a life sentence (in fact, I initially said that I would NOT have given the offender we talked about a life sentence until someone provided more facts), it's that SOME deserve it.<br /><br />If things are going to change, we're going to have to engage in an honest review of the system without pigeonholing people or running to the theoretical extremes. I'd rather be smart on crime than tough on crime. More often than not, we should focus on rehabilitating offenders than sanctioning them (that said, we still need to sanction people to deter misconduct). Sometimes, however, being smart on crime requires us to permanently incapacite an offender who simply is too dangerous to let out (ie. with a life sentence or death penalty). Remember that people who commit crimes do so by choice (mentally ill potentially excepting); they are culpable for their actions and responsible for the consequences, many of whice are born by the innocent. <br /><br />BTDTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-59849644184198325682010-05-24T08:17:17.535-04:002010-05-24T08:17:17.535-04:00joe
we are not talking about the juvi detention c...joe<br /><br />we are not talking about the juvi detention center!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-56713298730937212722010-05-24T07:44:08.386-04:002010-05-24T07:44:08.386-04:00this black atty stuff is crap..i am a black atty a...this black atty stuff is crap..i am a black atty and had the same thing happen to me,...from reading the post here it is clear there is a stench of racism ... no matter how many of u deny it...i am truly saddened..but the policy needs to be changed and the criminal defense lawyer association prexy needs to address this..as for the peole working their..don't hate..they just following orders...covering there asses..ever go to the woman jail ..no problemAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-30025237206126379132010-05-24T00:24:35.769-04:002010-05-24T00:24:35.769-04:00Why not just go back to the courtroom after your f...Why not just go back to the courtroom after your first failed attempt, and ask the in court clerk to update the information to reflect you are the attorney of record in CJIS?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19039943.post-17541343539698725552010-05-23T23:37:23.196-04:002010-05-23T23:37:23.196-04:00Stat of the week:
"109 teenage offenders nat...Stat of the week:<br /><br />"109 teenage offenders nationally received life without parole sentences and 77 of them were in Florida as of September 2009." (from the Graham case).<br /><br />That is an amazing stat. Once again Florida - we're number one. Sad. Truly sad.<br /><br />Unless you are BTDT, who, I am assuming, will tell you that he/she has no problem with Florida leading the country on this statistic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com