The Ledger is running a story this morning about the arrest of an individual accused of stealing about $200,000 from an elderly woman she was hired to care for. Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon occurrence in Polk County. I have been involved in dozens of contested guardianship proceedings and many of them were instituted [...]
The Ledger ran a profile today of Bartow attorney Sergiu Gherman, who is also a gifted pianist. I do not have much to add, except that I have been opposite Sergiu on a couple of cases and he is, indeed, extremely intelligent and analytical. I have never heard him play, but hope to eventually. There [...]
Read it in the Tampa Tribune. At issue is a man sentenced to death for the murder of a Polk Sheriff’s deputy. The death warrant was signed shortly after Grady Judd started an online petition to ask the governor to sign it. Should the death penalty process be that political?
Chuck Welch over at lakelandlocal.com did great job of describing the transaction history of Lakeland City Commission candidate James Goetz’s home. I thought I would expand on his work and provide a more detailed legal analysis of the transactions. Please go read Chuck’s post first. (I hope he doesn’t mind if I call him Chuck.) [...]
This is not news in Polk County, at least not right now, but I agree 100% with the sentiments in this editorial from the St. Pete Times. Gov. Crist recently appointed a party insider with very little trial experience as a Circuit Court judge over two long-serving County Court judges. It is certainly possible that [...]