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Florida resident loses First Amendment appeal in suit over rejection of his mansion plans     For the last 18 years, Florida resident Donald Burns has been living in his 10,000-square-foot mansion—which he describes as a “traditional home”—on the Atlantic Ocean in Palm Beach, Florida. Photo from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Atlanta’s June 8 decision. A federal appeals court has rejected constitutional claims by a Florida resident who sued when a town rejected his plans for a new beachfront mansion that would be dissimilar to nearby homes. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court o...

In a federal appeals court case freeing former Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, and a state appeals court case approving an arrest for filming Boynton Beach police officers, the less-experienced judges appointed by Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis made decisions on the wrong side of history and the law. In both cases, more experienced judges appointed by Bill Clinton and former Republican Gov. Bob Martinez dissented.

Ex-congresswoman’s fraud conviction overturned A stock image of a judge's gavel. (Source: Storyblocks) By Jim Saunders | May 10, 2021 at 1:42 PM EDT - Updated May 10 at 1:42 PM TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WWSB) - A divided federal appeals court Thursday overturned the conviction of former Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown on fraud and tax charges, ruling that a juror was improperly removed from her trial because he said the “Holy Spirit” told him Brown was not guilty. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 7-4 decision, ordered a new trial for Brown, who was convicted in 2...

Special evidence from Holy Spirit now OK for Florida jurors, Trump judges affirm | Frank Cerabino © The Palm Beach Post Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino OK, imagine this.  You are in a jury pool in a criminal case, and you’re asked if you can render a verdict based solely on the evidence presented in court. You say “yes," but as soon as jury selection begins, you tell the other jurors that you have some special information: that you consulted your Magic 8-Ball, and it informed you that the person on trial was innocent. © Creative Commons license A gavel sits atop a book.

Instead, she and her chief of staff used nearly all the money to pay for such things as luxury vacations, galas, NFL games and Beyoncé concert tickets for themselves. Only $1,200 went to scholarships, the fraud indictment against her charged. As a result, the 12-term Democratic congresswoman lost her bid for re-election in 2016 and stood trial in a federal criminal court in Jacksonville the following year. This was a slam-dunk case. Her chief of staff pleaded guilty and provided evidence against Brown at her trial. And there was a paper trail.  Prospective jurors in her case were screened ...