UPDATE – SS – Brenda Fires Annette
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Annette Daniels, after roughly nineteen years with the Clerk’s Office, reports she has been terminated due to her candidacy to replace Brenda Forman as Clerk.
Developing …
UPDATE 3/26:
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Exceptional radio silence on this one still, but we’re provisionally calling the county seat for Michele Ricca …
We’re told Chris Wigand has been appointed to the circuit court.
Still awaiting word on county, where the appointee will likely replace the new misdemeanor DV judge Chris Brown in First Appearances …
*UPDATE* – FLORIDA BULLDOG: John Morrison’s Writ (2/2/24)
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Former ASA Joseph Zager has filed against Kathleen Angione in the race to replace retiring county court judge Lou Schiff …
PUBLIC DEFENDER/NAACP PRESS CONFERENCE RE JAIL DEATHS
John Morrison, Assistant Public Defender, Appellate Division, Miami PDO, has filed this Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus with the Third DCA relating to the procedural and constitutional concerns regarding section 907.041(5)(b): “A person arrested for a dangerous crime may not be granted nonmonetary pretrial release at a first appearance hearing if the court has determined there is probable cause to believe the person has committed the offense.”
It doesn’t specifically address 907.041(5)(d), which has the Broward SAO and judiciary scrambling due to the requirement for the state attorney, or the court on its own motion with a PC arrest for a “dangerous crime” that is a capital felony, a life felony, or a felony of the first degree, to motion for pretrial detention (“shall motion for pretrial detention“).
In Broward, we’re told the PDO has been successful in having judges not order pretrial detention pursuant to 5(d) for a variety of reasons, but Defendants are certainly being held no bond past their First Appearances pursuant to the 2024 changes until being seen by their assigned division judges. Morrison’s filings are therefore believed to be the first volleys at the appellate level attacking the statute on procedural and constitutional grounds that could also potentially be applied to 5(d), meaning the litigation will be closely watched across the State.
Follow along with all the responses and other filings at the Third DCA Clerk’s website …
COMING SOON – SAO Restructuring – Are the “Dinosaur Divisions” doomed?; CJ ELECTION!
WPLG – 20-year state attorney DTU secretary admits dealing cocaine with boyfriend (2016)
FLORIDA BULLDOG:
End of jail bail reform may cost Broward taxpayers an extra $16.7 million
NAACP calls on Justice Department to investigate ‘alarming’ BSO jail deaths; ‘Immediate action’ urged
Charles Hall, 60 year old native of Broward County and a thirty-four year veteran of the Clerk’s Office who retired as a Court Operations Manager, has confirmed he will be filing soon to run for Clerk of Courts against Annette Daniels and Brenda Forman …
COMING SOON – 907.041 Pretrial Detention Motion Madness …
The JNC short list for the open county & circuit seats should be available tomorrow.
There’s been a delay in getting the FDLE criminal background checks from Tallahassee, but we’re told the issues should be resolved Friday.
In the meantime, click the following link to spy on your favorite elected officials net worths, and stay mindful of grossly exaggerated home values …
Form 6 Example – Brenda Forman
All persons holding the following positions: Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Cabinet members, members of the Legislature, State Attorneys, Public Defenders, Clerks of Circuit Courts, Sheriffs, Tax Collectors, Property Appraisers, Supervisors of Elections, County Commissioners, elected Superintendents of Schools, members of District School Boards, Mayor and members of the Jacksonville City Council, Judges of Compensation Claims; the Duval County Superintendent of Schools, and members of the Florida Housing Finance Corporation Board, each expressway authority, transportation authority (except the Jacksonville Transportation Authority), bridge authority, toll authority, or expressway agency created pursuant to Chapter 348 or 343, F.S., or any other general law, mayors, elected members of the governing body of a municipality, each member of the Commission on Ethics and judges, as required by Canon 6, Code of Judicial Conduct.
Annette Daniels, an almost twenty year veteran of the Clerk’s Office, has filed against incumbent clerk Brenda Forman.
Annette’s paperwork is found here …
COMING SOON – TFB v. Jerry Girley; JNC short list …
