Category: 4th District Court of Appeal
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Justice Renatha Francis’s former trial court colleagues still punishing litigant who called her out for trampling women’s rights
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org A Loxahatchee woman remains trapped in Palm Beach County family court years after she defied Renatha Francis, who abruptly dropped the woman’s case before her promotion to the Florida Supreme Court.
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Appeals court ruling may send Florida Justice Center founder, ex-BSO deputy Bleiweiss back to prison
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org Jonathan Bleiweiss, the Oakland Park-based Broward sheriff’s deputy turned convict turned self-styled crusader for justice, is running out of moves to avoid more prison time.
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Supreme Court aspirant Francis keeps mum about messy judicial ethics complaint against her
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org Judge Renatha Francis’s interview for the Florida Supreme Court was a weird mixture of lovefest, attack on her chief foe and a preemptive defense of her fitness to serve on the state’s highest tribunal.
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Appeals court agrees BSO deputy has ‘stand your ground’ immunity for battery in controversial pepper spray and takedown of teen
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org A state appeals court today affirmed a Broward judge’s decision to dismiss a misdemeanor battery charge against Sgt. Gregory LaCerra for his role in the pepper-spraying of a teenager in Tamarac in April 2019 because the officer was standing his ground.
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Next chapter in a ‘he said/she said/they said’ nude photo drama of a judge
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org It could be a telenovela plotline, except it’s straight out of new court documents in a high-stakes contest over an upcoming Palm Beach County trial.