Thursday, August 30, 2007

Tom Scott in the house....


Ken Jenne has put together quite a legal team. His lawyer is well-respected David Bogenschutz . BSO is represented by former U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis and Michael Tein. And now, Jenne has added former U.S. Attorney Tom Scott (pictured here on the left by the Miami Herald, Bogenschutz on the right, and Jenne bottom left insert; article here).

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Don't these guys look alike?




SDFLA criminal stats

The numbers are in. Criminal prosecutions are up 10% from last year, but still down significantly from 9-11. Vanessa Blum reports on the stats here:

At the current rate, the number of prosecutions in 2007 will be down roughly 12 percent from 2002, according to data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research organization affiliated with Syracuse University.

Federal prosecutors in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit and Boston areas have seen even larger decreases in criminal filings over that period.

In this region, covering Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade and six other counties, the number of drug cases has fallen dramatically, sliding from 1,461 in 2002 to 883 in 2006, according to the Syracuse group. As of April 2007, the seventh month of the fiscal year, prosecutors had filed roughly 580 drug-related cases, on track to surpass the 2006 figure but well below the 2001 prosecutions.


U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta: "When resources become limited, you have to prioritize." He added that the office is on its way to a record year for prosecutions targeting gang crime, illegal guns and health care fraud.The number of immigration cases is also rising, from about 300 in 2002 to 500 expected in 2007.

Whoooops!

The WSJ blog has a story about Alberto Gonzales's resignation letter, which has a major grammatical mistake:

It has always been my honor to serve at your pleasure. After much thought and consideration, I believe this is the right time for my family and I to begin a new chapter in our lives.

From the WSJ:

The mistake: “My family and I” should be “my family and me.” WSJ Supreme Court reporter Jess Bravin, who first pointed out Gonzo’s error to us yesterday afternoon, suspects it privately will delight the attorney general’s critics, who snicker at the sloppy way Gonzales ended his tenure. Such errors may be common in everyday speech, but perhaps they don’t belong in carefully deliberated public letters from cabinet officers to the president. So, Law Blog readers, what does Gonzales’s grammatical lapse symbolize: slipping of standards at DOJ, a rare common touch in official Washington, or, well, just a negligible gaffe?

How embarrassing!

Maybe Rumpole is A.G., as he often makes similar grammar gaffes on his blog...

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Traffic on US1

This was the truck in front of me this morning... I snapped the picture with my phone because I couldn't believe the guy was sleeping like that.
Gotta love Miami.
For a cool picture series on Miami, check out this Flickr page. That photographer recently took some pictures of a person on South Beach and StuckonthePalmetto blog is asking whether it's a man or a woman. You decide.