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We, Not They, Lost Two Great Cops

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

I hesitated to write about this, not wanting to engage the "yeah, shut up, you hate cops," ignorant crowd, but here goes.Yesterday two Miami-Dade Police Officers were murdered in broad daylight. They went to arrest Johnny Simms on a homicide warrant. To the relief of every defense lawyer in Miami, he's now dead too. Simms was where they thought he may be, and came out of a room, shooting.As I sat in an airport waiting to come home, I saw the national breaking news on my phone. I told the prosecutor I was traveling with, and we both reacted the same. Yes, a prosecutor and I traveled to a meeting yesterday to discuss changes in the criminal rules - changes which we were on opposite sides. We sat together on the way up, argued intently against each other at the meeting, and then had lunch and did the "same" seats thing on the way back...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).