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CHIEF JUDGE NOW A TWO ROBE RACE

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

It's not exactly Obama versus McCain, but  Daily Business Review reporter Billy Shields  has an  article on the Ivan Fernandez versus Joel Brown race for Chief Honcho of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit (motto: "Moving into the 20th century slow and steady") . The title of the post links to the article. Joel Brown has been around it seems as long as McCain, while Fernandez is newer to bench, having served as a prosecutor and before that a Major in the City Of Miami Police Department. Fernandez is better known to us denizens of the REGJB, as both a prosecutor and his time on the criminal bench. He has the temperament and knowledge to do the job. Farina ascended to Chief Judge after a stint in the Justice Building, but while we have applauded his tenure as Chief Judge, he really didn't do a whole lot for the Criminal Courts other than his miserable failure in trying to institute some cockamamie system of preparing cases for trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on November 12, 2008 (boomark / email).