Category: Fourth District Court of Appeal
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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. -
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. -
Judge Shull to mom who fears his wrath: I won’t let go of your custody case
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A complaint blasting Palm Beach Circuit Judge Darren Shull for gender bias, from four angry mothers to the state’s top prosecutor, didn’t move Shull to drop one outspoken woman’s tangled child custody case. -
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Bergeron loses appeal against Waste Management in recycling case; huge legal fees loom
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An appearance of impropriety: Mothers say Judge Shull tramples their rights to favor fathers
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Three mothers, parties in Judge Darren Shull’s family court, accuse him of taking this approach: Listen to the fathers, ignore the mothers’ conflicting evidence and rule for the men. -
Appellate judges signal they see no conflict in Darren Shull keeping a politically connected father’s child custody case
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Although state child welfare authorities are still looking into an incident that raises concerns about Judge Darren Shull’s impartiality, his appeals court supervisors seem bent on allowing him to continue making questionable calls unchecked.
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