Category: Broward State Attorney
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As Florida adds firearm ‘open carry’ to ‘stand your ground,’ grocery shopping can be hazardous
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Publix shoppers may want to keep track of more than BOGOs now that customers can stroll grocery aisles flashing guns and knives like they’re roaming the range in the wild, wild West. -
Florida taxpayers paid $1.72 million to compensate ‘wrongly incarcerated’ Sidney Holmes. Did the state get it right?
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The State v. Sidney Lamar Holmes is finally over. After 34 years behind bars, he’s now two years out of prison. And with Gov. Ron DeSantis’s signature this month on a special appropriation to compensate Holmes, unanimously passed by the Legislature, Florida’s taxpayers are out $1.72 million. -
Broward Sheriff “Dr.” Tony’s next act: A sequel to the Powertrac scandal of two decades ago
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward Sheriff “Dr.” Tony’s next act: A sequel to the Powertrac scandal of two decades ago -
How a Broward crook who stole $100 million got a Murder One charge cut to a misdemeanor
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Q Link Wireless CEO Issa Asad and his company pleaded guilty on Oct.15 in Miami federal court to bilking more than $100 million from a government program that provides free or discounted phone service to people in need. The sentence prosecutors are recommending: five years, which is equal to one year for every $20 million he stole. Ten years earlier, while the feds say Asad was in the middle of committing his enormous fraud, he got an even better deal in Broward Circuit Court. -
The hardest case for mercy; Inside the effort to spare the Parkland school shooter
By Joe Sexton
The Marshalll Project
In the summer of 1998, Brenda Woodard and Carolyn Deakins were two of the dozens of women selling sex on the streets of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was a desperate scene down by the 17th Street Causeway, the first bridge into the city from its south. The johns, many of them fresh arrivals from the nearby airport, would swing off U.S. 1, and conduct their business in cars along Miami Road… -
South Florida prosecutors aren’t saying if they’ll enforce state’s strict new abortion ban
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Going by the book, anyone who violates Florida’s new six-week abortion ban commits a felony and faces up to five years in prison or a $5,000 fine. A repeat, three-time offender is looking at 10 years in prison.
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