A few news and notes

1. Ben Kuehne's motions hearing is this afternoon at 1:30.

2. The Pine Crest swim coach didn't get bond.

3. A federal agent was indicted for taking kickbacks.

4. Drew Brees won me my fantasy football game last night and looks like he is going to break Dan Marino's record. He does have a pretty tough schedule the rest of the way though.

5. Dancing with the Stars has jumped the shark.

Bench & Bar pictures

Judge Jordan and Judge Cooke

Judge Dimitrouleas and Judge Cohn

The dining room

A blurry picture of the criminal law magistrate panel

Judge Moreno (my phone's zoom isn't so powerful).

Live blogging the federal bench and bar conference

Most of you won't be reading this right now because you all are here at the Hollywood Diplomat. This isn't the most exciting way to spend my birthday, but what are you gonna do?

All the judges and magistrates are here. And there are over 500 lawyers here. Pretty unbelievable.

The morning panels were interesting. I was only at the criminal law panels, which were lively and engaging. I hear the civil panels were also good.

Judge Fay is about to do the lunchtime talk. More soon.
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Ben Kuehne event

Just a quick post about the Ben Kuehne fundraiser tonight at Christabelle's Quarter in the Grove. It was extremely well-attended -- of course there were many criminal defense lawyers there, but there were also many civil lawyers and even lawyers from out-of-town, from as far as Pennsylvania. It was packed and it was a nice tribute to Ben. The buzz: will the new administration dump this ridiculous case?

(Full disclosure -- I filed the NACDL amicus brief in favor of the motion to dismiss the case)

Pine Crest swimming coach in huge trouble

Here's Vanessa Blum's coverage of Fort Lauderdale's swimming coach Roberto Caragol, who is accused of having sex with minors and trading porn pictures. Here's the criminal complaint.