1. Cesar Sayoc will make his initial appearance today in magistrate court in the Southern District of Florida. The rumor mill says that Jaime Benjamin has been hired to represent him, at least for the SDFLA proceedings. He will certainly be held no bond and will be transferred to the SDNY for further proceedings.
2. Two (really great) former assistant federal defenders in Miami, now FPDs in San Diego, have been named judges. Linda Lopez has been appointed as a magistrate judge in the Southern District of California. And Shereen Charlick (the acting FPD in San Diego) has been appointed to a San Diego County Superior Court judgeship.
3. Jon Sale has been named to the Practitioners Advisory Group for the Sentencing Commission. He is the only member representing the 11th Circuit and will serve a 3-year term. It is a very prestigious position.
4. AUSA Jonathan Colan and AFPD Andy Adler just battled it out in the en banc 11th Circuit in U.S. v. Johnson on whether a police officer was entitled to seized ammunition and a holster from Johnson's pocked after he felt something during a Terry frisk. Here's the OA. It was Britt Grant's first en banc argument. The Court now has 12 active members.
The SDFLA Blog is dedicated to providing news and notes regarding federal practice in the Southern District of Florida. The New Times calls the blog "the definitive source on South Florida's federal court system." All tips on court happenings are welcome and will remain anonymous. Please email David Markus at dmarkus@markuslaw.com
The Dirty Dozen
ReplyDeleteThe MAGABomber should be tried in Florida, the IEDs were mailed here, nobody died in NY or other jurisdictions. Unless the DOJ doesn't have confidence in the USAO..
ReplyDeleteSDNY has the best prosecutors in the country. Easy call.
ReplyDeleteEVERYTHING is better in NY. Just any transplant in SoFla, or better yet, the wannabe NY's who never lived there, and they will go on and on about how much better NY is at everything.
ReplyDeleteThat's why they call it the Sovereign District of NY. Even the worst AUSAs up there are better than anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteKnickerbocker Please! Rudy Giuliani was the US Atty for the SDNY. That's all you gotta know about the quality of their prosecutors.
ReplyDelete