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By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Post Frequency: 3.5/day

Last Entry: November 04, 2020 at 06:48:00

TWO HOUSES

Posted on October 01, 2020
Two houses both alike in dignity.In Fair Miami where we lay our scene.The Heat -princes of Verona were beat and played thinWhile the Marlins found offense and a win.Yes, your darling Miami Heat were spanked by the LA Lakers and you know who - who showed his true colors and broke your little Heat hearts years ago...

WINNER WINNER

Posted on September 29, 2020
UPDATE: THIS DEBATE WAS NOT CLOSEYour president kicked Joe Biden's ass. It was not close. Biden continually fumbled every time he tried to cite statistics. Trump stayed calm. He dodged his weakest point- his response to covid- Biden never attacked Trump on telling people it would magically disappear and masks were not effective...

REPENT

Posted on September 28, 2020
We try and steer clear of religion and politics, but we note that starting Sunday night the Jewish High Holiday of Yom Kippur began. It is a time of introspection and reflection in which those who follow the faith neither eat, nor drink, nor wash...

NFL 2020 WEEK THREE

Posted on September 27, 2020
In honor of our new Supreme Court Justice nominee Clement Furman Haynsworth, Jr., (little historical joke for ourselves- no one else reading this will get that) Amy Coney Barrett, we are going old school conservative with our picks today...

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YOUR NEXT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE NOMINEE

Posted on September 25, 2020
UPDATE: Friday 6:45 pm both the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal are confirming what the greatest legal blogger in the universe told you this morning: ACB will replace RBG as President idiot Trump's SCOTUS nominee. President Trump will announce his next Supreme Court nominee this weekend and it will not be the just retired Judge Jerri Beth Cohen who was feted by her colleagues in a fun Zoom send off Thursday...

PHASERS ON STUN

Posted on September 23, 2020
UPDATE: Dr. Fauci says Rumpole is right!In a Facebook interview with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy Dr. Fauci said this:Another reason to wear a mask: "There's good enough data to say that aerosol transmission does occur," Fauci told Murphy, meaning the virus can hang around in the air "for a period of time," instead of falling to the ground in larger droplets...

MOSS v. RUMPOLE

Posted on September 21, 2020
A few posts ago we complained about the politicization of sports. To be fair we have always complained about the jingoism of the NFL and owners turning a game into a forced patriotic moment where there are military jet flyovers and at halftime some poor Gunny Sergeant back from Afghanistan with half his face shot off is reunited with his family...

NFL 2020 WEEK TWO

Posted on September 20, 2020
UPDATE: 4-2 on picks - 9-2 on the season for picks (not over under) Headlines from the survivor pool last week saw lots of long time and great players like former Judge Colby, Memnon, and Judge Faber all falling to the first week jinx. We learned a long time ago- pick a favoutite in week one and then move on...

RBG HAS DIED

Posted on September 18, 2020
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG HAS DIED. THIS HAS ENORMOUS IMPLICATIONS. MORE LATER UPDATE:Who says the almighty doesn't have a sense of humor? Could you have created a more Hollywood script then the blocking of Judge Merrick Garland in the last months of the Obama Administration only to have RBG die in the last months of the first term of the Trump Presidency? Here is what we know: The Republicans drew a bright line in the sand when they blocked Judge Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court...

RAGE AND CHAOS

Posted on September 17, 2020
A few random thoughts heading into the weekend, starting with the new Bob Woodward book Rage. The hero of Rage, the account of the Trump Administration that starts with the beginning of Trump's term is retired General Jim "Chaos" Mattis. "Maddog" was a media nickname that Trump seized on that appealed to him...

FACDL AND DE LA O SQUARE OFF OVER PVHS

Posted on September 16, 2020
There are Judges who approach the REGJB pantheon of greatness. Judge Ed Cowart is the standard by which all REGJB judges are measured. In more recent times Judge Murphy was a favourite of both the state and defense for the way he ran his courtroom and his well reasoned and fair decisions...

WHY PHASE TWO DOES NOT MATTER

Posted on September 15, 2020
As a young man returning from Vietnam, John Kerry appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1975 and famously said "how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam?"We pose this questions to the Chief Judges of Florida: "How do you ask a lawyer or juror or trial judge or clerk to die for a trial?"Because "Phase Two" is just a phrase that is meaningless in a pandemic...

GOV. DESANTIS TO NAME (maybe) NEWEST FLA. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE .......

Posted on September 14, 2020
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:GOVERNOR NAMES JUDGE JAMIE GROSSHANSGrosshans serves as a judge on the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach. She was an assistant state attorney in Orlando before going into private practice and then becoming a judge...

RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS

Posted on September 14, 2020
FLORIDA SUPREME COURT UPDATE: High noon has come and gone and no new Justice for the Tallahassee Eight. So Our own Captain called the Governor and his press office said this:?Governor DeSantis will be making an announcement about Judge Renatha Francis and the future of the Florida Supreme Court today? Booyah! As the song goes, "Rainy days and Mondays always get me down...

NFL 2020 WEEK ONE

Posted on September 12, 2020
UPDATE: 5-0 Game picks week one; 1-2 totals. UPDATE: Survivor pool is posted below. The KC/Texans game had a total of 54 points. If the Fins/Cheaters put up between 43-55 points, we are going to have some winners in the totals contest which pays a one week pass in the contest...

THE REVENGE OF TEXTUALISM

Posted on September 11, 2020
UPDATE: Judge Francis has withdrawn her name from consideration to become the next Justice on the Florida Supreme Court We like nothing better than when a conservative court issues a conservative order that bites a conservative in their maskless butt...

JUDGE/JUSTICE RENATHA FRANCIS, IN OR OUT .......

Posted on September 11, 2020
THE CAPTAIN REPORTS:AND THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT HAS SPOKEN .......The Florida Supreme Court responded this morning to the Governor's 11:57 PM filing by smacking him down "writ of mandamus" style. Here is the link to the Order.: Bottom line, every time the Governor and his legal counsel open their mouths, unconstitutional words come out...

FOOTBALL (NOT WHAT YOU THINK)

Posted on September 10, 2020
The Texans play the Chiefs Thursday night to open up the strangest football season ever. 17,000 morons fans will be allowed to attend the game in KC. It should be a good one.(KC 42-Titans 27- take the over). But our post is not about that...

ROBERT FENSTERSHEIB MURDERED

Posted on September 10, 2020
Attorney Robert Fenstersheib, a noted Broward Civil attorney who focused on accidents as a plaintiffs' lawyer, was tragically murdered Wednesday evening when his son, who suffered from drug addiction and mental illness, killed his father and severely wounded Fenstersheib's long time girlfriend, before turning the gun on himself and committing suicide...

FLORIDA'S CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS

Posted on September 09, 2020
Florida's Real Men Don't Wear Masks Governor held a news conference today in Miramar (Motto "we got nothing special") in which he not only dared the Florida Supreme Court to stop him from putting Judge Francis on the Court, he Double Dared them to stop him...

THE SUPREME COURT STRIKES BACK & THE SURVIVOR POOL SURVIVES!

Posted on September 09, 2020
UPDATE: THE SURVIVOR POOL IS UP AND RUNNING If you want in send an email to FBpool12@gmail.com subject "Mfga". First chance at a one week pass- Total points of the Thursday night game AND and The Dolphins/Cheaters game. To be clear- Add the points you think KC and Texans will score AND add the total points you think the Fins and Cheaters will score and send it to us...

HOT POTATO

Posted on September 08, 2020
As reported by ace Miami Herald Reporter @Davidovalle305 the investigation into Attorney Michael Grieco's possible culpability in the scandal involving the payoff of witnesses against NY Giants 2019 first round pick Deandre Baker and Seattle Seahawks Corner Back Quinton Dunbar has become a hot potato that no prosecutor wants to investigate...

COURTHOUSE USER FEES!!!

Posted on April 01, 2011
The following is an email forwarded to us. The implications are ominous. FROM: The Chief Judge, 11th Judicial CircuitTO: All Judges, AOCRE: Proposed Court House User Fees:Date: April 1, 2011. By now all of you are aware of the inclusion in the current budget of so called "courthouse user fees" to supplement the current judicial and court administrative budgets, which due to the slowing of foreclosure filings, have a collective shortfall of over 800 million dollars...

THE FIGHT IS ON

Posted on March 30, 2011
DOM has all the juicy nasty details about the fight between Roy Black and former US Attorney Alex Acosta over the prosecution and defense of Jeffrey Epstein. Recipe: Take one hedge fund billionaire with an appetite for underage girls; add one US Attorney who is not going to be pushed around; mix with a talented criminal defense attorney who attracts clients with almost as much money (and less debt) than the USA and mix...

TAKE YOUR MAC TODAY

Posted on March 28, 2011
MONDAY MORNING WEATHER UPDATE: There's a consensus among the scantily clad local weather vixens who grace our morning televisions: massive thunderstorms will be heading down from Tampa to South Florida. Broweird gets it first and then Dade County by mid-afternoon...

NEVER MIND

Posted on March 28, 2011
The rains that we warned about yesterday came....at about 9:00 PM Monday night. So if you listened to us and brought your Mac, never mind. And sorry. A Cobra escaped from the Bronx Zoo over the weekend. And now that sneaky, slippery snake has been twittering about his (?) adventures on the loose in the big apple...

VERY GOOD SHOWING

Posted on March 25, 2011
UPDATE: TRAWICK SACKS ROBBINS FOR FIVE YEAR LOSS The long, sad saga of former Oakland Raider center Barrett Robbins has come to a conclusion with a five year prison sentence of the former NFL star for violating his probation for testing positive for cocaine...

RUMPOLE TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC!!!

Posted on March 24, 2011
FRIDAY IN COURTROOM 4-2 OF THE MIAMI DADE COURTHOUSE, RUMPOLE WILL SPEAK AT THE FOLLOWING SYMPOSIUM. YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS!The Eleventh Judicial Circuit Centennial Committee, Joseph H. Serota, Chair, is pleased to present "Ripped from the Headlines: The Vital, Tempestuous and Changing Relationship between the Court and Media...

TWEET!

Posted on March 22, 2011
If you're not following us on Twitter, you're missing all the action. Why just last Sunday as we lay by the pool at some fancy resort, a blistering exchange between all your favourite bloggers (DOM, So Fla and even the Cocaine Princess) took place. Twitter: It's really more fun then watching Ohio State and Duke roll through the NCAAs...

A DARK, BLACK, BLOG

Posted on March 21, 2011
Some people have entirely too much time on their hands. Rather than sit down, read a file and write a motion to suppress (with corresponding memorandum of law if it's going to the 3rd Floor of the REGJB) they decide ..."hey, I know what I'll do, I'll write a blog!" Welcome, Roy Black to the Blog-a-sphere...

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