Hi all and welcome to Monday! Vanessa Blum here, holding down the fort for DOM, while he welcomes his third daughter into the world. Is that guy a slacker or what?
1. First, in the name of shameless self promotion: Definitely check out my cover story in the DBR—a scintillating profile of Miami lawyer Stephen Zack, the first Hispanic attorney elected to head the ABA. Also from the DBR (this one’s John Pacenti’s): should biometric data, such as retina scans, be used to ID illegal immigrants?
2. Second, this isn’t a federal court story, but I can’t resist linking to Paula McMahon’s Saturday article from the Sun Sentinel: Is a severed head found in Broward County enough to trigger local jurisdiction?
Broward prosecutors said that even though it's unclear where the 41-year-old was killed, the only part of her body that was recovered was found here and that under Florida law, that is sufficient to prosecute the two men charged here with her murder.
The defense argued that her body wasn't recovered and that it's more likely she was killed in New York. They hope Circuit Judge Michael Gates will rule that Broward prosecutors don't have legal jurisdiction to prosecute the case.
That’s all for now folks. I’ll be here all week, so e-mail news to vanessabblum@gmail.com.
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Welcome Vanessa!
ReplyDeleteStephen Zack??? That doesn't sound like no broder.
ReplyDeleteHow's about blogging on this:
ReplyDeletehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8181225.stm
99% Conviction rate!!! Yowsa!
LOOK! some one whose posts are even more self-promoting and devoid of interesting analysis, than David!
ReplyDeleteWhat is way cooler 1:08, is the fact that there exist idiots (like you) that don't know basic grammar...now, is that not cool?
ReplyDeleteLeave Vanessa alone. She is the best, and Hot too.
"Who" not "that"...1:48 (a/k/a "Idiot Number 2").
ReplyDeleteVanessa's a hottie!!!! We demand a new picture every day or we will boycott the blog.
ReplyDeleteWhy can't you guys just appreciate Vanessa for her stellar intellect? A persons worth is the sum of so much more than just her looks. Degenerates!
ReplyDeleteZack, now there's a self-promoter. Right up there with the likes of a couple of former USAttys and mediocres from the office who reside at big firms and screw up cases for other lawyers.
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