Earlier this month, Polk County and the Clerk of Court filed their answers in Killebrew v. Edwards, a case challenging the constitutionality of two provisions in the Polk County charter. One of those provisions sets term limits for county commissioners. The other caps commissioner salaries. Documents: Answer of Polk County Answer of Clerk of Court [...]
A Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy’s comments at a trial resulted in the Second District Court of Appeals ordering a new trial in a Polk County arson case. The comments were voluntarily brought to the trial court’s attention by the prosecution. According to the opinion, defendant Ascour Natan was convicted of aggravated stalking and arson in [...]
Earlier this month, I wrote about my thoughts concerning the arrest of EllenBeth Wachs, the legal affairs coordinator for the Atheists of Florida, Inc. She has been charged with holding herself out as qualified to practice law. Yesterday, my post was quoted in an op-ed by Glenn Marston in The Ledger, who was critical of [...]
A lot has happened in a very short amount of time on the legal issues involving the Polk County charter provisions that limit commissioners to two terms and that reduce their salary to about half what state law requires. In my initial post, which was quoted in a Ledger editorial, I disagreed with the conclusion of [...]
So I was at the used bookstore yesterday and happened upon a most interesting volume of legal wit published in 1890 entitled: Legal Hygiene; or How to Avoid Litigation, Transcript of a Series of Lectures of Interest to all Persons who have Property or Expect to Acquire Any. The author is “A.J. Hirschl of the [...]