SCRAM

Whist perusing the FACDL emails last week (for which we are grateful to our readers who forward them to us. Nothing against FACDL personally, but we just don't join organizations. It's a religious thing....sort of) we came across several emails which, if you didn't read closely, you might have thought the participants were discussing the imminent meltdown of a nuclear reactor. Terms like "SCRAM" and BOT and IID were being tossed around with frequency and alacrity.

We give FACDL a hard time, but the truth is that the muckity-mucks do what they do for free, donating their time and efforts on behalf of the defense bar and our clients.

Thus, we give FACDL Miami their due, and recognize their current president who stepped in last week and mediated an  impending contretemps over what appears to us (with admittedly limited knowledge in this obtuse area of the law) to be the equivalent of PTI for DUI, known as BOT. OK? Now scram. 

Bot letter from Justicebuilding


Perhaps the next time you see Mr. Pereira you should buy him a beer. But not too many, else wise he might need to enroll in BOT. 

GOODBYE
To the great blog Hercules and the Umpire, run by the exceptional US District Judge Richard G. Kopf.  Judge Kopf ended his remarkable blog on January 1, 2014. You can still peruse the blog and comments (and find an exchange between Rumpole and the Judge on his last post, disproving the notion that we're never nice to those who wear the black robes) and we highly recommend the blog post on sentencing, where the Judge reflected on the harsh sentence he gave a defendant who went on to be released, graduate law school, and receive a prestigious clerkship with a DC Circuit Judge.  

Well done Judge Kopf. Well done indeed. 

See you in court.