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FLORIDA POLITICS
Since 2002, daily Florida political news and commentary

 

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Thanks for visiting. On a semi-daily basis we scan Florida's major daily newspapers for significant Florida political news and punditry. We also review the editorial pages and political columnists/pundits for Florida political commentary. The papers we review include: the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, Naples News, Sarasota Herald Tribune, St Pete Times, Tampa Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Tallahassee Democrat, and, occasionally, the Florida Times Union; we also review the political news blogs associated with these newspapers.

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The Blog for Saturday, January 29, 2005

Death Penalty

    A couple of years ago, "Jeb!" - good Catholic that he is - led a charge to make it easier for the government to kill people:
    In 2002, Gov. Jeb Bush closed one of the three offices of the capital collateral regional counsels — state-paid lawyers and support staff specializing in Death Row cases.

    The move was designed to save the state money and speed up the appeals process, but instead has resulted in delays due to inexperienced private lawyers and a lack of oversight, according to a Jan. 25 report from the commission.
    Incredibly, "lawmakers are poised to consider expanding the program." But there's a problem:
    Appearing at a meeting of the Commission on Capital Cases at its request on Tuesday, [Florida Supreme Court Justice Raoul] Cantero characterized the work of the private attorneys handling the final appeals for Death Row convicts as "some of the worst lawyering I've seen." ...

    Cantero, appointed by Bush two years ago, told the commission that registry attorneys have penned "the worst briefs that I have read" and their ineptitude bogs down the court and creates "inefficiencies."
    Ahem, Justice Cantero, that is precisely what "Jeb!" and the death-penalty wackos who advise him, want: they pf course do not want good lawyers with adequate resources defending death penalty case.

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