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THURSDAY NOTES

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 Mike Satz: AnachronismThings are busy as ever in Broward's Central Courthouse.Where to start?Word came late this afternoon that Edward Howard was found not guilty before Judge Bidwill.  Of course, an acquittal in a violent felony comes as no surprise in the land that time forgot, where King Satz proudly wears the statewide Biggest Loser crown.  He saws wood while crime rises in our depopulating county (while decreasing in Miami and Palm Beach), counting lily white sheep while drug pushers make Broward the #1 distributor of hard drugs to the nation.  The funny thing about this one is that it was a death penalty case, with the State also failing to convict on lessers.  The charge was Premeditated Murder in the Course of Sexual Battery by Manual Strangulation, a catch-all charge that strangely bore no fruit...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on May 07, 2009 (boomark / email).