Deliver us from evil . . .
| By Susan Chandler - Jun 30th, 2009 at 12:26 pm EDT |
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Categories: Criminal Justice, Legislature, Democrats, Republicans, Civil Rights, Media, Clueless Crist, Campaign 2010, Governor & Cabinet
Categories: Criminal Justice, Legislature, Democrats, Republicans, Civil Rights, Media, Clueless Crist, Campaign 2010, Governor & Cabinet
Florida Senate Bill 1126 and House Bill 483 match up to the legislation the AP reported that Governor Crist signed into law in Miami yesterday, with Attorney General McCollum present.
S1126 “Expands the jurisdiction of the Office of Statewide Prosecution to investigate and prosecute certain additional offenses,” and “Provides that certain actions constitute an immediate and serious danger to the public safety, health & welfare, etc.”
S1126 apparently originated in the House as H483 on January 20th.
Talk about a fast track.
And talk about off track.
Crist’s signature signaled that Florida officially places the preservation of wealth ahead of the preservation of life and liberties.
Bernie Madoff is indeed an awful man, but nowhere near as awful as the Brevard County prosecutors seeking to avoid accountability for far more grievous misdeeds.
When Brevard’s prosecutors used phony crime scene dog handler John Preston’s in dozens of trials nearly thirty years ago, they never dreamed that DNA would one day reveal that they framed innocents and left dangerous perpetrators free to do further harm.
Three are now free, after losing a combined 54 years of their lives. One apparently served time for one of Ottis Toole’s brutal homicides; no one has a clue who the other two served time for.
Toole’s rip-offs were far more ghastly than Madoff’s.
Toole liked to dismember his victims.
Texas apprehended Toole, Florida didn’t. And faced with a Brevard-like predecessors, Dallas County D.A. Craig Watkins is pulling out the stops to get innocents out and criminals in, keeping his constituents safe from people that enjoy dismembering other people.
Without intervention, Madoff victims stood to make partial recovery.
Without intervention, Brevard’s victims will die behind bars, their names forever sullied and their families inconsolable, while the actual perpetrators continue to commit crimes at will.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1120204.html#comment
http://www.flsenate.gov/session/index.cfm?
Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=1126
http://www.flsenate.gov/session/index.cfm?
Mode=Bills&Submenu=1&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&Billnum=0483&Year=2009
S1126 “Expands the jurisdiction of the Office of Statewide Prosecution to investigate and prosecute certain additional offenses,” and “Provides that certain actions constitute an immediate and serious danger to the public safety, health & welfare, etc.”
S1126 apparently originated in the House as H483 on January 20th.
Talk about a fast track.
And talk about off track.
Crist’s signature signaled that Florida officially places the preservation of wealth ahead of the preservation of life and liberties.
Bernie Madoff is indeed an awful man, but nowhere near as awful as the Brevard County prosecutors seeking to avoid accountability for far more grievous misdeeds.
When Brevard’s prosecutors used phony crime scene dog handler John Preston’s in dozens of trials nearly thirty years ago, they never dreamed that DNA would one day reveal that they framed innocents and left dangerous perpetrators free to do further harm.
Three are now free, after losing a combined 54 years of their lives. One apparently served time for one of Ottis Toole’s brutal homicides; no one has a clue who the other two served time for.
Toole’s rip-offs were far more ghastly than Madoff’s.
Toole liked to dismember his victims.
Texas apprehended Toole, Florida didn’t. And faced with a Brevard-like predecessors, Dallas County D.A. Craig Watkins is pulling out the stops to get innocents out and criminals in, keeping his constituents safe from people that enjoy dismembering other people.
Without intervention, Madoff victims stood to make partial recovery.
Without intervention, Brevard’s victims will die behind bars, their names forever sullied and their families inconsolable, while the actual perpetrators continue to commit crimes at will.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1120204.html#comment
http://www.flsenate.gov/session/index.cfm?
Mode=Bills&SubMenu=1&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&BillNum=1126
http://www.flsenate.gov/session/index.cfm?
Mode=Bills&Submenu=1&BI_Mode=ViewBillInfo&Billnum=0483&Year=2009
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