Florida law dean hopes school will rescind his firing; faculty resolution also supports him
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Anthony Varona, dean of the University of Miami School of Law, has been fired, leading tenured faculty members and Varona himself to call for a reversal of the decision.
Julio Frenk, president of the school, announced Tuesday that Varona’s deanship will end July 1, but he will remain as a professor, in which he can make a more “meaningful and lasting contribution” than in a job carrying administrative burdens.
Varona has a scholarship that focuses on media, gender and sexuality law. He was previously general counsel and legal director of the Human Rights Campaign, a group seeking equality for LGBTQ people, according to the Miami Hurricane.
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The Record asked a panel of experts to weigh in on a number of legal issues surrounding the case, as well as the role social media has played in the investigation.
Chief in that discussion is whether prosecutors will find enough reason to warrant charging the suspect as an adult, which would mean instead of an adjudicatory hearing presided over by a judge in juvenile court there would be a full jury trial.
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Originally reported missing, the body of Bailey, a popular cheerleader, was found May 9 near her home in a quiet subdivision in northwest St. Johns County. A male classmate of Bailey s at Patriot Oaks Academy was arrested in connection with her killing the following day.