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"I was out of the bed on the floor within a spilt second."They heard a http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/cop-popped-for-dui.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-441657045674470101Thu, 16 Jun 2011 03:56:00 +00002011-06-15T23:58:50.940-04:00Lawsuit filed in 'Rock of Ages' photo banPopGoesTheNews.com • Prohibiting people from taking pictures of stars like Tom Cruise andRussell Brand on the Florida set of Rock of Ages is unconstitutional, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday.The South Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and The South Florida Gay News (SFGN) sued the City of Fort Lauderdale and its police chiefhttp://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/movies-dont-own-first-amendment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-853773763970869289Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:15:00 +00002011-01-03T20:16:39.920-05:00It’s official. The possession of up to one ounce of marijuana for non-medical purposes is no longer a criminal offense in the state of California.As of January 1, 2011, Senate Bill 1449 is law. Signed by outgoing California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in October, SB 1449 amends the California Health and Safety Code so that the adult possession of up to 28.5 grams of marijuana is reclassified http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/pot-no-longer-criminal-in-cali.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-7642070239562389344Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:34:00 +00002010-12-13T00:39:35.243-05:00A JAABLOG poster said it best and succinctly: 'Joe Varon was the finest lawyer to ever walk the halls of the Broward County Courthouse. He was a gentleman whose word was his bond, well respected by everyone who knew him and admired by every trial lawyer in this county. There is no room for sniping about this fine man. He was a credit to the profession and would there be more like him.' Joe Varon http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/joe-varon-gone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-1308588187058220934Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:36:00 +00002010-10-14T13:42:55.762-04:00Stacey Honowitz, who has prosecuted sex offenders for 22 years, has written a book to empower kids to tell if someone touches them inappropriately. An article in this week's Miami Herald, by Julie Landry Laviolette shares the important story. It is worth picking up on the blog, seemingly abandoned for months by your author here, as he publishes a newspaper, at www.southfloridagaynews.com. But http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/prosecutor-honowitz-works-at-making.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-1106458433245464784Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:41:00 +00002010-06-26T10:46:08.988-04:00© The Cairns Post, discovered through Legal Juice and John Mesirow's blog-------for your reading pleasure:A PROMISING environmental scientist who forgot that he had stashed a 650g bag of cannabis in a washing machine has been let off without a conviction for the offence.Isha James Segboer, 34, was planning to bake a cake from the cannabis.Instead he put it in a disused washing machine and forgot http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/wash-this-weed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-6092527534543986643Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:39:00 +00002010-03-02T19:45:20.758-05:00courtesy www.southfloridagaynews.com You may know or remember Ray Fetcho as ‘Tiny Tina.’ He is a proud gay 61 year old man who has been a licensed practical nurse for the past forty years; four decades of service to people who are ill.Unfortunately, in 1976, while hosting a ‘Wet Jockey Shorts Night’ at the Copa, he was busted for promoting a lewd act. Today, that incident has come back to haunt http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/gay-nurse-fired-for-34-year-old-lewd.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-6949543963831841840Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:11:00 +00002010-02-15T23:12:36.391-05:00BY NORM KENT'PUBLISHER, SOUTH FLORIDA GAY NEWS.COMA joint investigation by the organization Truth Wins Out and the SouthFloridaGayNews.com has revealed that the spokesperson for a New Jersey based national religious group seeking to ‘cure’ homosexuals is a convicted felon who has been hiding his past.The leader of JONAH, Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality, Arthur Abba Goldberg, is http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/ex-gay-icon-is-also-ex-con.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-5482099401339910226Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:29:00 +00002010-01-17T20:31:35.321-05:00An interesting article, worth reading, mentioning Florida, of course: http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/drug-abuse-in-us-277057.htmlhttp://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/drugs-in-prison-uncontrollable.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-2087046221413592067Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:02:00 +00002010-01-13T04:03:45.328-05:00Well I may be out of action with a different blog pretty soon, but I could not resist this one.http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/season-cometh.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-477865305022500707Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:52:00 +00002010-01-02T00:55:43.336-05:00TasersBy JOHN SCHWARTZPublished: December 31, 2009 My only comment is About Time !!!!- NormIn a case that could set the first broad judicial standards for the use of Tasers, a federal appeals court in California has ruled that the police can be held liable for using one of the devices against an unarmed person during a traffic stop. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, based in http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/federal-court-limits-use-of-tasers-ny.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-627724790438622775Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:03:00 +00002009-12-28T23:10:12.685-05:00Drunk DrivingPaul D. Garay has a history of drunken driving. And by "has a history," we mean "has a lifetime 20 arrests for drunk driving." Over Christmas weekend this 55 year old dude pitched his Chevy into a ditch in Minnesota again, sporting a BAC twice the legal limit.Alcohol problems aside, Garay's hardly a shining beacon of responsible citizenship; from 2003-2006, he served a drug-related sentence, andhttp://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/minnesota-man-chalks-up-20th-dui-arrest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-6710015229611739712Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:34:00 +00002009-12-27T21:37:26.381-05:00MarijuanaRacism Hope you had a Merry Merryjuana Christmas.Here is an article from the NY Times worth reading. Comes down to this.Whites smoke pot. So do Blacks. Guess who goes to jail more often >?http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/nyregion/23about.html?_r=2Last year, black New Yorkers were seven times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession and no more serious crime. Latinos were four http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/whites-smoke-pot-blacks-get-arrested.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-8750264432502504381Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:32:00 +00002009-12-27T17:39:34.975-05:00Percy SuttonA king in the field of civil rights law, Percy Sutton, passed away today, at the spry age of 89.The son of a slave, Percy Sutton became a fixture on 125th Street in Harlem after moving to New York City following his service with the famed Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. His Harlem law office, founded in 1953, represented Malcolm X and the slain activist's family for decades.The consummate http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/percy-sutton-passes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-7801813167048326773Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:49:00 +00002009-12-25T12:53:16.963-05:00Property LawUS Supreme CourtIf you are the owner of beachfront property and the state comes along and widens the beach, do you own the new land or does the state? Will the vision of hot dogs stands, port-a-johns and partying spring breakers lead the Supreme Court to overturn part of a Florida law designed to replenish lost beach sand? Will Justice John Paul Stevens’ ownership of a beachfront Fort Lauderdale condo wind up http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/who-owns-beachfront.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-7868387193400152760Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:37:00 +00002009-12-25T11:55:39.333-05:00Criminal JusticeSexual AbuseAn Australian father who is accused of forcing his teenage son to have sex with a prostitute — out of fear that he was gay — may face rape charges. As the rest of the family celebrated Christmas 2007, the father allegedly took his son to a motel in North Rockhampton, where he paid the prostitute to have sex with his son, according to The Morning Bulletin, a newspaper in Rockhampton. And jiminy http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/dad-prosecuted-for-taking-child-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-4446507982365905325Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:30:00 +00002009-12-25T09:47:03.173-05:00'Forgiven'InjusticeMatt Kelly blogs on Criminal Justice. his blog, of a film I know little about, and look forward to catching this next week. I kept on hearing about it, missing it, and look forward to seeing it. So here is a review for you by another lawyer who says it is compelling:"I recently saw the film “Forgiven,” Paul Fitzgerald’s moving and thoughtful directorial debut, which ponders the injustice of a http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/film-forgiven-debuts-on-cable-dvd.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-5734501287610409600Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:07:00 +00002009-12-24T18:09:45.091-05:00Anyone that wants to place their faith in the government ought to look at how many people get elected to office running against it. Merry Christmas.http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/healthy-holiday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-5654378921432649102Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +00002009-12-24T01:07:04.332-05:00Craig LynchEscaped PrisonersThis story is too much fun not to write about. It is certainly going to make Jonathan Bleiweiss very jealous, you know the popular ex BSO officer in jail on charges of sexually assaulting immigrants he detained on traffic stops. Not pretty. But here is the story:British police have appealed for information about the whereabouts of an escaped prisoner who has been telling the world via Facebook http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/escaped-prisoner-updates-facebook-page.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-6385931955069072325Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:33:00 +00002009-12-24T00:44:48.341-05:00DMVGather Go Get CampaignBeginning Jan. 1, new documentation requirements will take effect for Florida residents wishing to obtain a driver license or identification card. It's going to be more of a pain in the ass than usual.Those wishing to obtain a new license, legally change their name prior to their renewal date or immediately replace a lost or stolen license or ID card will be required to visit a driver license http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-drivers-license-and-id-rules.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-3628372733293236906Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:34:00 +00002009-12-23T08:36:24.066-05:00Over the Holidays. Stay sober. Be careful. Consider your neighbor. Take care of your friends. Be nice to your family. And remember if you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it is yours. If not, hunt it down and kill it :-)http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/drive-safe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-3600537506786157080Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:43:00 +00002009-12-22T19:55:48.856-05:00WagesWorker's RightsIt just seems that one of the most common questions I get is whether employees are being treated fairly by their employer's pay practices. Joseph Maus specializes in that area so around the Holidays with money on your mind, I thought I would take him up on the opportunity to syndicate his blog piece on an issue vital to your finances.- NormGuest Blogger: South Florida Attorney Joseph M. MausOne http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/are-you-entitled-to-overtime-pay.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-8851394529370179302Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:29:00 +00002009-12-20T10:36:59.519-05:00Drug CourtJail OvercrowdingPrisonsThere is an AP news story by Jeff Carlton this weekend revealing that the US prison population may drop for the first time in almost four decades, with one state having a notable exception.Let me see if you can guess which. Seems that Florida, which has, of course, enacted a law requiring all convicts to serve a high percentage of their sentences, is the anomaly. So our prisons are bulging at thehttp://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/drug-courts-help-drive-down-national.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534442131073084981.post-9108160177111490237Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:01:00 +00002009-12-20T10:13:28.675-05:00Juvenile JusticeJuveniles should be handcuffed or shackled during court appearances only if judges have a good reason for the restraints, the Florida Supreme Court said Friday, about thirty years late.The justices followed recommendations by the National Juvenile Defender Center. Under the guidelines the court issued Thursday, judges can order juveniles to appear in chains if allowing them unrestrained would http://browardlawblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/no-more-routine-shackling-of-juveniles.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Publisher)0