MIAMI (CBSMiami) – On Wednesday, an ex-Miami cop continued his testimony in defense of a convicted British murderer who insists he was framed by police. Michael Flynn told jurors on Monday that Krishna Maharaj was wrongfully implicated for a 1986 double murder at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in downtown Miami. According to Flynn, the Colombian […]
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Opening statements begin in trial of former Homestead mayor
HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Opening statements began Monday in the trial of former Homestead Mayor Steven Bateman. Bateman has pleaded not guilty following his August 2013 arrest on corruption charges. “We are thrilled that the day is here,” is all Bateman’s attorney would allow his client to say to reporters Monday. “We’ve waited a year to […]
North Miami mayor’s business raided in ballot fraud case
NORTH MIAMI, Fla. – Police raided the business of North Miami Mayor Lucie Tondreau Friday morning as part of an investigation into absentee ballot fraud. Investigators from Miami-Dade police, Miami Beach police, and the state attorney’s office took computers and boxes of documents from Tondreau & Associates, a private-consulting firm, at 12895 W. Dixie Highway […]
Former Aventura charter school principal wins $155 million award in lawsuit over firing
By Laura Isensee, Palm Beach Post The ousted principal of an Aventura charter school has won a $155 million award in a lawsuit claiming her firing was not only without cause, but ruined her health and career prospects. The verdict came late Friday after a month-long trial and years after Katherine Murphy lost her job […]
Santeramo defense: “Organized labor is under assault”
This morning Pat Santeramo was in a jail jumpsuit at the Broward County Courthouse, where his Miami attorney, Ben Kuehne, argued for a reduction in his bond. But Broward Circuit Judge Michael Orlando kept the bond at $480,000 and the former Broward Teachers Union president will likely spend at least one more night in jail. […]
Plantation artist avoids prison for stealing man’s identity two decades ago
By Peter Franceschina, Sun Sentinel The judge had wanted to give celebrated South Florida artist Jose Luis Alvarez two years in prison for stealing a New York man’s identity more than two decades ago to obtain a fraudulent passport, calling it a serious crime that deserved punishment. But by the end of a dramatic and […]
Terence Pinder, Former Opa-locka Politico, Beats One Criminal Case, Two More To Go
An Opa-locka official booted from office six years ago won’t be prosecuted for the crimes that got him thrown out in the first place. Banana Republican has learned that the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office has quietly dropped multiple grand theft and official misconduct felony charges brought against Terence Pinder, Opa-Locka’s then-vice-mayor, in 2006. But Pinder […]
BUSH V. GORE: ‘THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY’
By Kyle Teal, The Florida Bar The St. Thomas University School of Law invited the legal community to revisit one of the United States Supreme Court’s most controversial decisions in a hotly debated November symposium: “ Bush v. Gore: A Decade Later.” The symposium, held November 12-13, was well-attended by an audience of lawyers, students, and law […]
A Different Florida Vote–in Hindsight
By Richard T. Cooper, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — It was like a seed. For Al Gore and his senior field commanders, almost everything they did during the historic postelection battle over Florida and the presidency grew out of what was there at the beginning. Events had an impact. So did forces and individuals beyond their […]