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The Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers “is appalled by recent and ongoing unethical conduct by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, along with retaliatory targeting of criminal ...
Attorney misconduct is unethical or illegal conduct by an attorney. Attorney misconduct may include: conflict of interest, overbilling, false or misleading statements, knowingly pursuing frivolous and meritless lawsuits, concealing evidence, abandoning a client, failing to disclose all relevant facts, arguing a position while neglecting to disclose prior law which might counter the argument ...
Former Maricopa County attorney launched unethical attacks on political enemies, filed malicious and unfounded criminal charges and committed perjury. [108] [109] Jack Thompson: Florida: 2008 — Found guilty of 27 counts of professional misconduct, including verbal harassment and intimidation [110] [111] Jerome P. Troy: Massachusetts: 1973 —
Rundle is the only State Attorney in Florida operating a Child Support Enforcement Office, with over 65,000 cases processed annually by her staff. She created legislation that added child support orders to the Florida Crime Information Computer (FCIC) making them accessible to every Florida police officer.
The group asked the state attorney to create a new unit that would be run by an outsider who has never worked in the office, which would examine convictions where misconduct has been alleged. It ...
Instead, probes of alleged police misconduct would be handled by each jurisdiction’s state attorney and by the agencies’ own internal affairs units, possibly subject to review by boards ...
In 1967, the Florida Legislature merged the duties and responsibilities of several state criminal justice organizations to create the Bureau of Law Enforcement. Bringing together the resources of the Florida Sheriffs Bureau, the State Narcotics Bureau, and the law enforcement activities of the Anti-Bookie Squad of the Florida Attorney General's Office, the original Bureau of Law Enforcement ...
An investigation into police misconduct by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune a decade ago labeled him “Florida’s worst cop.” The website also claimed that the officer was unemployed — though he ...