"The Mission of this allied force was fulfilled at 0241 local time, May 7, 1945" The statement sent by General Dwight David Eisenhower after German Genral Alfred Jodl surrendered Germany to the allied forces at the Ecole Professionelle at Reims.  It wasn't recorded on IG, and there were no Tik Toks posted of the surrender, and General Eisenhower sent a telegram instead of a Tweet, but for all of you who have never known a world without iPhones and Starbucks,  there was a time when there was an existential threat to freedom and this country,  and everyone pulled together to ..read more

 Your Miami Heat are out of the playoffs, losing to the Celtics 4-1 in the series, with nary a peep from Miami's front running phony fans (FRPF). (What, you thought we were retiring? Soon, but not yet.).  Where are all the Heat fans bemoaning the team that they love and follow religiously?  Nowhere. Because the Heat don't really have any fans (other than the great Judge Colodny, bless her soul, amongst a few others). They just have FRPFs who only show up for game sevens in the playoffs and the finals, paying exorbitant prices for seats on stub-hub, wearing their silly white shir ..read more

 Good Monday morning! To our friends celebrating Passover- tired of matzoh yet?   Our takeaway on the judicial races and non-races.  We did not see any "Rosy Races" (c) Justice Building Blog 2024, all rights reserved.  Not that they are our favourite coven of people, but those who wear all black to work who did not deserve to be challenged were not. Again, this is not about who we like, but wanting to maintain some semblance of competency with a judiciary rapidly being remade into a group of federalist drones who have limited trial experience and should just stay out o ..read more

 Did you that our own Florida Bar (mott "Dues please") has a separate website that has all sorts of stuff like free CLE, and practice management tools?  And it is named LegalFuel.  Your dues at work.  We are reminding many of you that if your judge was up for election this year and did not get opposition on Friday to speak softly in court on Monday. Their hangover will just be subsiding.  Site Feed ..read more

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: ELECTION CENTRAL 2024 - QUALIFYING WEEK HAS CLOSED ..... HERE ARE YOUR CONTESTED RACES ... AND YOUR UNCONTESTED WINNERS .....* CIRCUIT COURT Group 8 (Judge David Miller retiring) Jason Bloch v. Bonita Jones-Peabody Group 29 (Judge Pedro Echarte retiring) Heloiza Correa v. Cristobal David Padron Group 49 Congratulations to Judge-Elect Marie Mato who wins election in her first bid to wear the judicial robe without drawing an opponent; (do we call that a “Milt Hirsch”). TRIVIA QUESTION: Name the last Circuit Court Judge to win election in their first attempt without oppositio ..read more

SECOND UPDATE- We beliece the former Judge is back in his original race. We begrudgingly compliment him for recognizing the error in judgement his recently exhibited.  UPDATE: THE JUDGE WITHDREW HIS CHALLENGE  as such we removed his name and replaced it with an initial because he does not deserve publicity good or bad.  The aforementioned former judge at the top of this post, who was in a county court multi-candidate race, removed himself from his contested race and went into a circuit race.  There is every reason to believe that this slug did this because of the informatio ..read more

  THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: ELECTION 2024 - QUALIFYING WEEK UPDATE....... BREAKING NEWS   As we reported last night (read below) Candidate Scott Janowitz has jumped out of his County Court Group and filed against Incumbent Circuit Court Judge Yery Marrero. UPDATE #2. Scott Janowitz has paid his Qualifying Fee. He is locked into Group 25 and will be running against Judge Marrero. ———————— Very little to report after two days. Qualifying Week ends at Noon on Friday. As of 5 PM today, there have been no new candidates entering races for Circuit or County Court Judge. In the Circuit Court: Al ..read more

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: ELECTION 2024 - QUALIFYING WEEK Welcome to Qualifying Week. Over the next five days, the candidates who have filed to run in their respective Groups in both the Circuit and County Court will need to formally commit by paying their Qualifying Fee. As always, we can expect to see some surprise candidates jumping into races this week. The question for this week is - WHO ARE THE MOST LIKELY CANDIDATES TO DRAW OPPOSITION?  (nb edited by Rumpole for blog reasons- see below) But, before we get to the judicial races, the burning question on the mind of all criminal defense at ..read more

 FACDL had this to say about the SAO and all that... And oh yeah, we are getting reports that our friends at NBC 6 Miami just covered the below press release and asked for the SAO for a response but were told everyone was busy with seeking prison on resisting arrest without violence and NVDL trial because crime is crime and that's the fact jack. It takes a whole bunch of prosecutors to scope out witnesses on a case, get them together to get their stories straight, get them some food and arrange a conjugal visit, and then rush to cover it all up. So it's understandable they could not immed ..read more

THE CAPTAIN REPORTS: ELECTION CENTRAL - 2024 On August 20th, voters in Miami-Dade County will head to the polls to elect several new judges in both the Circuit and County Court. As I have for the past 19 years, your Captain will be on top of all of the races, bringing you the breaking news that our readers have come to expect from your humble Blogger. You won’t get this kind of coverage in the Miami Herald, nor the Daily Business Review, the Miami News (now I’m aging myself), or any other local thread. Thanks to Rumpole and the Justice Building Blog our readers know that they will obtain thei ..read more