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End to waiting periods among sweeping changes proposed for Florida’s clemency process Dara Kam, Senior reporter, News Service of Florida Published:  Updated:  Tags:  Supporters of restoring Florida felons voting rights march to an early voting precinct, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition led marches to the polls in dozens of Florida counties. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) TALLAH...

The Florida First District recently rendered Mobley v. Fussell, 1D19-4286, regarding the intriguing topic of whether a court clerk might charge someone for copies of public records. Please do not tune out just yet, as the analysis delves far deeper than the seeming banality of copy costs, and is actually a somewhat intriguing and educational expose of the process of statutory analysis. As an aside, this matter came to the Court as a "mandamus petition." Mandamus is one of the extraordinary wri...

The U.S. Constitution does not explicitly say whether a sitting president can pardon himself for potential criminal liabilities.

Amanda Brumfield, released from prison this fall in a deal with prosecutors, spoke publicly Tuesday for the first time about her case, about how she no longer trusts the criminal justice system and how she wants to help other women unjustly in prison. She was sentenced to 20 years for manslaughter in the death of her best friend's baby in 2011, a conviction that Innocence Project of Florida attorneys argued was based on "junk science."

Department of Justice (DoJ) (MANILA BULLETIN) DOJ Undersecretary Emmeline Aglipay-Villar presented DOJ records which showed that from January to November 2020 there have been a total of 1,334 PDLs who were pardoned and granted parole. This is much higher to the 988 PDLs who were pardoned and granted parole in 2019. DOJ records showed that there was one PDL who was granted absolute pardon and 1,333 who received parole. It can be recalled that President Duterte gave absolute pardon in September ...

Florida Cabinet plans 8 meetings in 2021 News Service of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet — Attorney General Ashley Moody, Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis and Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried — are scheduled to double, to eight, their number of meetings next year. A schedule posted online Thursday has the four statewide officials sitting together for Cabinet meetings on Feb. 2, March 9, May 4, June 15, Aug. 10, Sept. 21, Oct. 26 and Dec. 14. They also have sched...

In the state have been celebrating their victory after the passing of amendment four it restores floating rights to felons who have completed their prison sentences six million people nationwide are unable to vote because of criminal records and a florida has the largest number of those citizens. that we have or social media editor william cross with us well in what is a minute or so this was a ballot measure to actually set the clock back to go back to two thousand and eleven the way things wer...

Was campaign chairman for those four or so months for donald trump the candidate, you know, this is really going to be a treasure-trove of incriminating information. it will implicate stone and it may very well implicate the president and those around him. >> jill, am i wrong in my recollection that nixon at one point in his sort of emissaries were shopping around pardons, attempting to get pardons for those involved? >> absolutely. it was part of the coverup where the burglars who they were try...

Four or so months for donald trump the candidate, you know, this is really going to be a treasure-trove of incriminating information. it will implicate stone and it may very well implicate the president and those around him. >> jill, am i wrong in my recollection that nixon at one point in his sort of emissaries were shopping around pardons, attempting to get pardons for those involved? >> absolutely. it was part of the coverup where the burglars who they were trying to keep from testifying abou...

Here was the front page story in the "washington post" on june 3rd, 1973, above the fold. it was by the investigative duo carl bernstein and bob woodward. "dean alleges nixon knew of cover-up plan." now, thats the kind of headline that scandalized the nation. even at a time when many watergate headlines were shockers. because if true it meant there was a lawyer on the inside ready to turn. the kind of thing that could end a presidency. which it partly did because this man john dean had knowledge...