Author: Dan Christensen
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Better late than never: Online access to court files arrives in South Florida
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Nearly two decades after the federal courts did it, state courts in South Florida and across the Sunshine State have begun to allow the public online access to documents contained in case files. -
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Sex offender convinces appeal court to reverse Broward judge
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Every day, state prisoners flood Florida’s courts with appeals and pleadings about their cases that they’ve written themselves. Those pro se filings – Latin for “on his own behalf” – rarely get far. This spring, however, an inmate sex offender serving a life sentence convinced the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal that a Broward judge erred when she failed to order prosecutors to explain potentially serious discrepancies about his Miranda rights warning form. -
Is Broward terrorist figure Adnan Shukrijumah dead? FBI can’t confirm it
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Six months after former Broward resident and suspected al Qaeda leader Adnan El Shukrijumah was reported killed by the Pakistan army, the FBI has not confirmed his death and continues to include him on its list of “Most Wanted Terrorists.” -
Eyewitness: Hollywood cops tasered man in handcuffs and leg shackles
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A neighbor who watched Daniel Tyson die last October during a confrontation with Hollywood police says officers twice shocked Tyson with a Taser after he was restrained facedown on the ground in handcuffs and leg shackles. -
Coconut Creek police Taser shooting a homicide; Death by electrocution, lawyer says
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The death of a black man shot multiple times by Coconut Creek police firing Taser stun guns has been ruled a homicide by the Broward Medical Examiner’s Office, FloridaBulldog.org has learned. -
Actions of Coconut Creek detectives investigating Taser death questioned
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Coconut Creek detectives investigating the death of a black man shot multiple times by police Tasers in the Wynmoor condo complex have re-questioned two eyewitnesses in what outside police sources say was an apparent attempt to discredit their testimony.
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