JUDGE JULIO JIMENEZ

Update: Sorry we did not get this up sooner. There will be a memorial service for Judge Jimenez on Wednesday January 18, 2012 at 12:30 PM at Church of the Little Flower,  2711 Indian Mound Trail, Coral Gables, Fl. Mass will be celebrated. 




He was Sy Gaer's law partner, which means he had a connection to the roots of the REGJB. He was a defense attorney, a trial lawyer, a judge, and an all around good guy, and we are sad to report that Julio Jimenez passed away on Sunday. Many of you know he was sick, battling liver cancer. However, Julio Jimenez lived long enough to swear his son in as a member of the Florida Bar this past Friday. There's not much we can add to something as poignant as that. 


He will be missed. 


Here's a fun post we did on a Judge Jimenez battle with the SAO over PTI. 


UPDATE:
Judge Julio Jimenez's Memorial Service will be on Tuesday, January 17, 2012, from 5 pm to 10 pm at Maspons funeral home at 3500 SW 8 Street.


Here is the Herald's obit. 

OFFENSE INCIDENT REPORT

Item: Judge Julio Jimnez claimed last week that an ASA stabbed him in the back. The investigation continues.

From the O/I-

"

Crimes against Judges Division:

Stone Rock- CAJ Detective:

The victim is a hispanic male, in his fifties, known to wear a black robe at work and is a Judge at the REGJB- an area well known to this detective to be rife with violence, deception, scurrilous characters, torpidness and stolidity.

At some point last week the victim claimed to be a victim of aggravated battery by being stabbed in the back by a co-worker.

The victim accused a specific co-worker who appears to be a member of a gang known to this detective as "Yo Yo Yo SAO". Their known gang signs include raising the middle finger of each hand when asked to exercise discretion and two well known and notorious rap songs called "my supervisor said NO" and "Yo Yo Yo da SAO is IN DA HOUSE." The suspect refused to be interviewed by this detective and referred all questions to her attorney. The victim referred this detective to his statements from the bench and various news articles reporting the incident.

Evidence of the crime includes frequent contact between the victim and the suspect; a dispute over the resolution of a work related issue in which the victim claims the suspect requested that the victim write her supervisor a letter requesting a resolution to this issue. When the supervisor responded by refusing to allow the suspect to cooperate with the victim some sort of scuffle ensued with the victim later making the unsubstantiated claim of aggravated battery.

There are several witnesses to the underlying dispute which clearly provided the suspect with the motive and opportunity to stab the victim in the back. However, there is not sufficient evidence at this time to arrest the suspect for aggravated battery.

This officer was not present at the time of the crime. No weapon was recovered during the investigation of this case. This case remains open/pending."

JUDGE JULIO JIMENEZ v. STATE

The Herald has the story here of the dust up between Judge Julio Jimenez and the SAO. The title links to the article.

Jimenez sought to have the state offer Defendant Dwight Bernard PTI. Bernard was a Northwestern Highschool principal and he was accused of official misconduct in connection with the allegation that he covered up complaints that a football player was having sex with a 14 year old student.

Jimenez wrote a letter to State Attorney Fernundle requesting that the prosecution offer Bernard PTI. Talk about getting involved in plea offers!!!! We can't even get a judge to offer a withhold and this guy's lawyers have Judge Jimenez writing letters.

The letter blew up in Jimenez's face when the SAO filed a motion to recuse.

Jimenez recused himself and then said ASA Angelica Zayas had (and we're not making this up) "Stabbed me in the back."

So there you have it- just a regular day at the REGJB.

A Judge writes the State Attorney and asks for PTI because among other reasons "he has a murder trial waiting". The State Attorney says (surprise surprise) "NO".

The Judge says a not guilty verdict is "likely".

The Prosecution files a motion to recuse.

The Judge replies "You stabbed me in the back."

Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee;

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible

To feeling as to sight? or art thou but

A dagger of the mind, a false creation,

Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

I see thee yet, in form as palpable

As this which now I draw.

Macbeth, Act II.

See? What a normal courthouse we work in.

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

Macbeth, Act I.