Showing posts with label Judge Cooke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Judge Cooke. Show all posts
Monday, December 05, 2011

Monday notes

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1. Judge Cooke will be hearing a dispute filed by the Marley heirs against a half brother. Curt Anderson has the details . 2. Alan Fein i...
Monday, September 19, 2011

11th Circuit decides Padilla case 2-1

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Here is the opinion . Judge Dubina writes the majority, which Judge Pryor joins, affirming the conviction and reversing Jose Padilla's ...
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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Judge Cooke finds 300+ year mandatory sentence for juvenile unconstitutional

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Here's the money passage: Here, Mathurin faces a mandatory minimum 307-year sentence. Because Congress has abolished the federal parole ...
Friday, October 30, 2009

Happy Halloween

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So, Judge Cooke sentenced a cooperting UBS guy to probation the other day, and today Judge Cohn sentenced a similarly situated co-defendant ...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Sentencing question

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So will the Liberty City 7 6 5 get more or less time than Jose Padilla? Remember that Judge Cooke sentenced Padilla to 17 years and his co...
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

CocoDorm allowed

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The Herald headline is: " Judge OK's gay porn filming in Miami." Headlines don't get much better than that, do they? The ...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Judge Marcia Cooke speaks at the Federal Bar luncheon

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While everyone else is wasting the day looking at "Kristen" pictures , we here at the SDFLA blog have pictures from yesterday...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Reminder -- Judge Marcia Cooke to speak tomorrow at lunch

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At the Banker's Club at noon. Cost is $35. There are a few seats left. You can pay at the door if you RSVP to Lourdes at Lourdes_Fernan...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

Upcoming Federal Bar (and other) events

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1. For Federal PDs and AUSAs only -- this Thursday 2/21 from noon-2pm, the Federal Bar Association (South Florida Chapter) will be having a ...
Thursday, February 07, 2008

Sad day

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Typically I try to blog objectively and just report what is occurring in our District. Today I can't do that because what happened this ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Jose Padilla sentenced

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Judge Marcia Cooke sentenced Jose Padilla to just over 17 years today. Co-defendant Adham Amin Hassoun received 15 years and eight months,...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Poor Judge Cooke...

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She has to deal with a lot of sentencing objections in Jose Padilla's case (via the AP).
Saturday, June 09, 2007

Judge Cooke keeps jurors happy...

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... according to the NY Times : The trial is expected to last months, and Judge Cooke has taken pains to keep jurors happy — letting them ta...
Monday, May 28, 2007

Weekend reading...

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Hope everyone had a nice holiday weekend. The Wilk jury continues its deliberations tomorrow. The prosecution cannot be happy that they are...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Tom Langston?

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That's the name used by the CIA agent who testified in disguise during yesterday's proceedings in Jose Padilla's trial. Jay Wea...
Monday, May 14, 2007

Jose Padilla opening statements

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Jose Padilla opening statements are today. There is a buzz in the legal community over the case, but I wonder if the general public has the...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Don't mess with Judge Cooke

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Apparently a reporter from CBS radio tried to bring in a transmitting device to the overflow media room in the Jose Padilla trial to broadca...
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Monday, April 09, 2007

Judge Cooke denies Jose Padilla's motion to dismiss for outrageous government conduct

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Judge Cooke issued a blockbuster ruling late tonight, denying Jose Padilla's motion to dismiss for outrageous government conduct -- with...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007

The "light disguise" trend

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After asking for its witnesses to testify in "light disguise" in the Ze'ev Rosenstein case(coverage here , here and here ), ...
Saturday, February 17, 2007

"Methinks the lady doth protest too much"

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That was Judge Cooke in response to prosecutors strenuous objection to allowing Jose Padilla's jailors to testify at this week's com...
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