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JUDGE WALKS FINE LINE OF FAIRNESS
Hillsborough Circuit Judge Gregory Holder, a veteran, approved an agreement between prosecutors and a defendant’s attorney that spared the defendant a three-year mandatory sentence. Instead, the defendant, Clay Allred, received house arrest. Judge Holder’s...
JUDGE POSNER’S CRITICISM
Judge Richard A. Posner, a Federal Appellate judge and prolific author, is critical of the dissents in the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision.1 This is the decision that legalized same-sex marriage throughout the country. Expounding upon the philosophy of John...
FATHER CHIEF JUSTICE
A bronze statue of Edward Douglas White is a local landmark in the French quarter of New Orleans. The statue was dedicated on April 8, 1926. At that time, Confederate veterans still wearing their gray uniforms, stood about the scaffolding according to the Times...
ACCESS TO JUSTICE
The Florida Supreme Court has begun an “access to justice” initiative. It attempts to meet the legal needs of lower middle class Americans. In an editorial written for the Miami Herald, Chief Justice Jorge Labarga announced that the Florida Supreme Court established...
LINCOLN’S GREATEST CASE
Author Brian McGinty has written a book about the contributions that Abraham Lincoln made as a lawyer.[1] The author recounts how the shipping industry fought construction of railroad bridges which allowed trains to transport goods anywhere. The first railroad...
HUCKABEE’S CONSTITUTION
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee thinks that state officials can ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling that states must recognize and provide marriage for same-sex couples. Speaking prior to the Supreme Court’s decision, the former Governor had this to say:...
THE LEGACY OF THOMAS MORE
The society in which we live in prizes personal happiness above all else. Sadly, to focus exclusively on one’s personal happiness is a guarantee of disappointment.[1] To live a full and balanced life, a person must adjust the search for happiness with a sense of...
LESSONS FROM JOHN DANFORTH
We can say that when divorce cases get to the point of litigation, the system is dysfunctional in the sense that an undue amount of resources, financial, emotional, and psychological, are spent. In this regard, divorce litigation can be compared to the current state...
AN EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE
Attorney A.M. “Marty” Stroud, III, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was the lead prosecutor in the December 1984 first degree murder trial of Glenn Ford. Mr. Ford was sentenced to death for the November 5, 1983 death of Shreveport jeweler, Isadore Rozeman. Ford was released...