I recognize that there hasn't been a new post here in recent days. That is a function of a couple of factors. First, that life is good, I'm busy, and family comes first.
Second, that there just isn't much news to pass on.
Sure, there is the Orlando Sentinel article that brings home the point that an unprepared conflict counsel/regional counsel office is not the solution to big crime prosecution problem with too little resources lately. But that's not really news.
Here's what I can tell you. Remember that "baby in the oven" case that made national news not too terribly long ago?
That case closed today. DCF's supervision and the Court's jurisdiction over the family is terminated, as the children and parents were reunified half a year ago.
I can't get the Orlando Sentinel interested in that aspect of the story, or that the original reporting about it was simply not true.
So you have a national news story about a dependency case that is resolved with reunification, and the attorney for the mother (me) gets paid a grand total of $750 for the effort. I'm not complaining; my only problem is that my State's legislature thinks that was way, way, way too much money to pay a lawyer for a high profile case like that, and has decided that private dependency defense attorneys need to be done away with for good and replaced with underpaid employees of the State to oppose the underpaid attorneys of the State on the other side.
I feel good today. The baby was never put in the oven, by the way.
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A hearing is set for later in December on the writ of quo warranto. FACDL's reply to the state's response is interesting reading. So, just how many people have been hired for these offices statewide?? Jan. 1 is looming.
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