By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
When state prosecutors decided in January not to charge Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony with felony perjury for lying under oath on his application for a replacement driver’s license, the prosecutor’s memo announcing and explaining that decision omitted significant facts.
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
When Florida Supreme Court justices elect their in-house leader, tradition dictates that they honor seniority.
So it’s remarkable that on March 9, the justices ignored seniority and bypassed the obvious choice, Justice Alan Lawson, to tap a relative newcomer, Justice Carlos Muniz.
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida is getting another expensive brick-and-mortar state appeals court, even though the judges who can best determine the need said “No thanks.”
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida prison officials want to change a rule to keep lawyers from talking to inmates who may need their help; the new rule would place inmates who could be defense witnesses completely out of earshot.
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Later this year Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Canady may be living with a state legislator, his wife Jennifer Canady, a Republican who is campaigning to represent Lakeland in the state House. If she wins, the court that her husband leads may someday pass judgment on a law she sponsored.
By Carrie Levins
Center for Public Integrity
Tiffany Crutcher was worried.
Oklahoma lawmakers had passed a new measure stiffening penalties for protesters who block roadways and granting immunity to drivers who unintentionally hit them. The state NAACP, saying the law was passed in response to racial justice demonstrations and could chill the exercising of First Amendment rights, filed a federal lawsuit challenging portions of it. But the new law was only weeks from taking effect.
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