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A BUTCHKO BLAST

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Judge Butchko  is upset. David Ovalle of the Herald writes:In unusually harsh words, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Betty Butchko blasted the flaws of the system that defends the indigent accused of third-degree felonies.The title of the post links to the article. We weren't there and we didn't see it. However, after  reading the article, and after having been in these courts for well over 20 years, we can speculate that it went something like this: a judge got upset because things didn't go exactly the way she wanted them to, and being a Judge means you always get your way, right?Or something like that. Our point being, stop whining and making a federal case out of the fact that a PD was not ready to try a third degree felony. That's been happening in our building since most of these judges were in diapers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on April 25, 2009 (boomark / email).