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Judge grants Cruz defense team right to film at crime scene as prosecutor Satz’s death penalty record becomes an issue
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Over prosecutors’ objections, Nikolas Cruz’s defense got the go-ahead Friday for a professional production company to film the “preserved” crime scene at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland where Cruz admits he shot and killed 17 students and faculty and wounded 17 others more than three years ago. -
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Broward’s new state attorney says he’ll reimagine the top prosecutor’s job
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
When a young lawyer named Harold Fernandez Pryor Jr. trounced 20-year prosecutor Gregg Rossman to become Broward’s first African-American state attorney, many wondered: Harold who? Yet voters knew enough about Pryor, 34, to choose him for a four-year term as the chief legal enforcer in Florida’s second-most populous county. He oversees 462 employees, including 213 prosecutors, for an annual salary of $174,641. -
In Broward State Attorney race, Murphy collects big money from company tied to Pyramid, Ponzi schemes
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
For the first time in nearly two generations, Broward voters have the opportunity to elect a state attorney in November whose name won’t be Mike Satz. -
Amid nationwide racial unrest, renewed interest in Broward’s most horrific miscarriage of justice
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
For more than a decade it’s been publicly apparent that Jerry Frank Townsend, a black man, was framed by Broward Sheriff’s Office, Fort Lauderdale and Miami police detectives who coerced him into confessing to nearly two dozen sex murders of African-American women and children that he didn’t do. -
Pandemic invades Broward’s jail system; So far, no Miami-Dade inmates test positive
By Noreen Marcus and Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
As feared, the COVID-19 virus now has invaded Broward’s jail system. On Thursday, the Broward Sheriff’s Office disclosed that two inmates have tested positive for the deadly virus. No inmates in the Miami-Dade County Jail system have tested positive yet. -
Broward Health’s ‘independent’ probe led by law firms with undisclosed ties to Gov. Scott
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
When Broward Health General Counsel Lynn Barrett started an “independent” investigation that led to last December’s ouster of popular hospital district President/CEO Pauline Grant, the two law firms she retained to investigate and advise about Grant had deep, undisclosed ties to Gov. Rick Scott.
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