Category: Courts
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Trump’s strategy to rewrite history of ‘Russia hoax’ plays out in Florida courts
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
President Trump’s go-to grievance, “the Russia Russia Russia hoax,” is honored in Florida state courts, where judges help him threaten the media and revise the story of the 2016 presidential election. -
Federal judge, former chief justice denounce Florida Bar prosecution loaded with political baggage
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A federal judge and a retired Florida Supreme Court justice shredded the Florida Bar’s case against lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder during a Zoom hearing last week. -
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. -
Florida Bar finally puts DeSantis critic on trial, but strategy backfires
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
TALLAHASSEE – Lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder finally got his Florida Bar ethics trial, more than four years after judges savaged his reputation for criticizing Gov. Ron DeSantis’s COVID-19 policies in a lawsuit. -
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Mike Flynn’s Florida libel suit loss won’t prevent a Trump lawyer from trying to get SCOTUS to ‘open up’ libel law
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
MAGA frontman Mike Flynn’s Florida libel suit against MAGA saboteur Rick Wilson flamed out this month, leaving Flynn to expect a six-figure bill for Wilson’s attorney fees. -
Corruption allegations target Southwest Ranches, Davie PD and State Attorney Pryor
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Wild civil and criminal litigation filed in South Florida’s state and federal courts has exposed an allegedly pernicious web of political corruption stretching from Southwest Ranches Town Hall to the Davie Police Department and on to State Attorney Harold Pryor himself.
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