From: John Hager 4/9/24
Subject: (BACDL) Gulkin/Reidy Award
Members,
At our meeting today, the following attorneys were nominated for Gulkin and Reidy:
Gulkin Reidy:
Daniel Aaronson
Eric Schwartzreich
Mike Dutko
John Cotrone
Gabe Ermine
Reidy:
Eric Schwartzreich
Stephen Melnick
Andy Coffey
The Brian Reidy “Give Back” Award:
Brian G. Reidy was born in Ireland and adopted at a year old by a NYPD officer and detective, and a pediatric nurse. When his father retired, he moved his family to South Florida and became a bailiff at the Broward County Courthouse. That was when Brian first started wandering the halls of the courthouse and watching lawyers in action. In 1976, while attending Cardinal Gibbons High School, Brian became a “Public Defender for a day.” His father strongest wish was for his son to become an attorney. After Brian graduated law school, his father passed away, right before Brian began his career at the Broward County Courthouse in 1985. Brian spent his entire 35-year career in public service at the Public Defender’s office. He tried over 200 jury trials and trained hundreds of new attorneys in the art and skill of trial advocacy. His Voir Dire examples are still used by Judges and defense attorneys in the tri county area. He was respected by his peers, the judges he appeared before, and his adversaries at the State Attorney’s Office. His presence lit up the room. He was an honest, zealous advocate who fought for every client he ever represented.
This award is given in recognition of a lawyer who represents Brian’s spirit of hard work in the courtroom and his lifetime of “giving back” in service of the community.
In order to be eligible for the award the recipient must have an active bar license in Florida. The recipient can be a public defender or a private attorney that devotes a majority of their practice of law to public interest law.
The Barry Butin Award.
BACDL SUCKERS
WE ALL KNOW HOW INEFFECTIVE ITS BEEN AT EVERY TURN
I wouldn’t hire Butin to clean my toilet …
Gabe is the only PD.
He has to get the Reidy.
Or both the Gulkin and the Reidy.
He gets Reidy, and Cotrone, Dutko or Danny for Gulkin because they’re due.
Is it for who can down the most green beer in one gulp or what ?
Schwartzy gets it for the most creative bumper stickers ! Lol
What a bunch of losers.
Reidy didn’t make it into the office half the time. Don’t know what kind of award it’s supposed to be for.
Gabe is the only one who fits this description:
The recipient can be a public defender or a private attorney that devotes a majority of their practice of law to public interest law
Eric for Gulkin.
But Schwartzreich doesn’t “devote a majority of their practice of law to public interest law.”
All those BACDL types are so dense and uncreative – and they can’t even READ THE DESCRIPTION OF THEIR OWN EFFIN AWARD!
Everyone knows about the kizz ass award Galkin but it’d be a shame if they ruin Brian’s award .
THE ONLY THING REIDY WAS EVER GOOD AT
The only thing Reidy ever “gave back” was an empty beer bottle after he stiffed you on the tip.
Why anyone would want an award named after that blowhard is anyone’s guess. Saw him way too many times in court to know he was nothing but a second rate schmoozer who rarely pulled thru for his clients and thought more of his meager talents than anyone else did. He caved anytime he could. What a putz.
Just another mediocre glad-hander who sucked it as long as he could …
The only name on the list who devotes the majority of their practice to public interest law is Gabe.
Great job. The list doesn’t even make sense. No one else is even eligible besides Gabe
The only thing I remember about Brian is the way he crawled on all fours crying to Howard to keep his job. You could hold his trial successes in a spoon.
Cotrone was my boy until he couldn’t keep up his end anymore.
Anna the banana biggest ho in courthouse?
Gabe for Gulkin
I GAVE HIM A CHANCE – A REAL LIGHTWEIGHT
GABE COULDN’T EVEN MAKE IT IN PRIVATE PRACTICE
HAD TO GO CRAWLING BACK TO THE PD OFFICE TO MAKE ENDS MEAT
I was the defense’s ace in the hole and I don’t even get an honorable mention from BACDL.
Best. Comment. in a while!
“Schwartzy sweating and smoking like a rehab patient”
Always see his fat ass smoking cigs outside, and that sweat finna wash away his spray tan stuff.
Ol Shawzty sweating n smoking like a rehab patient. Just a matter of time before the meds wear off. Ol Howard help a fella out
Eric tries loads of cases. He deserves a Glummy.
Schwartzreich spends more time greasing crooked Broward Judges than he’s ever spent in court.
More like a cbd gummy maybe the sweating will stop.
I WANT MY GLUPKIN
IF THIS BUS DOESN’T GO FASTER I’M GOING TO MISS THE GLUPSKIN VOTING
I KEEP MY GLUMMY ON TOP OF A SAMSONITE BRIEFCASE STUFFED WITH UNDECLARED C-NOTES FROM THE 80’S IN BACK OF THE DOUBLEWIDE
ITS ALL ABOUT THE PLASTIC OSCAR AND COLLECTING THAT CHECK
EVEN IF YOU CANT STAY AWAKE
BACDL is a running joke. Its only purpose is as a source of campaign contributions to sitting judges in the hopes that one day they can suck from the same trough.
They can hand out these trivial awards all they want. It doesn’t obscure its deficiencies in every other respect.
Just my opinion, but I don’t waste any time attending any of their meetings or offer it any support.
BACDL is a joke. But you don’t attend meeting or offer support. Maybe attend a meeting or two or a free CLE zoom prior to complaining how much of a joke the organization is next time.
Hassett Has it.
Of course he supports Moon over Weekes.
JOHNNY HAS MY VOTE
HE’S A GOOD TIPPER
Yep, and that is precisely why John Weaks’ recent $ financial campaign docs shows JOHN WEEKS HAS ONLY 148K NET WORTH!!
(it also explains why he’s twice divorced)
There’s nothin wrong with Johnny’s MO
He’s a man of rare talent and good taste
He would be an excellent addition to the Broward Judge scene
He has more experience than most
Where this report at?
Which report you tombout?
The report about that awful band, “The Stripclub Johnnies”?! It’s classified now
No different than half the judges in Broward. They’re all broke. Why do you think they’d want the job otherwise. For most of them it represents a pay raise.
THE GUILTY VERDICTS NEVER BOTHERED ME BUT PICKING UP THE JUDGE’S DRY CLEANING DID
lol
Johnny is my kind of guy. Not like some cheapskate Broward judges I know.
Andy Coffey is the only one of those listed with any credibility. The rest are nothing but brown nosing schleps.
THE BAR’S THAT WAY
You could always tell it was Schwartzreich by the orange ring around his neck.
He wears more makeup than I do …
No Charles Bernard got ya both beat.
Judge Futch always said I was a good boy.
Me and Mike always thought highly of those BACDL boys.
I’LL DO ANYTHING FOR A COURT APPOINTMENT
We’ll see what the JAC has to say about that, Your Honor.
Why did Schreiber and Finkelstein get it but not Weekes?
YOUVE GOT TO BE A BIMBO TO GRASP THE TOTALITY OF WHY BACDL HAS DEVOLVED INTO A USELESS ORGANIZATION OF LOSERS LOOKING FOR HANDOUTS
Bacdl snubs Gordo ?
Wonder why … LOl
Schreib and Howie never took down one of their girls like Gordon did.
I PLAYED BOTH ENDS
That’s not fair. They gave it to Howard early on before he allied with Jaab. It was probably in the hopes of controlling him. I doubt he would’ve gotten it after all the stuff happened.
In fact, it was Mr. Finkelstein who started the PD Office war against the Crooked BACDL.
It’s merely a kizz butt plastic trophy outfit.
Recall that Bacdl actually fought against a full time Magistrate Judge and ERU.
Those bozos wanted everyone rotting in jail without a lawyer.
The organization was rotten with former Satz prosecutors.
I don’t know about now though.
One of last year’s bottom of the barrel winners…
WHO WANTS A GLUPKIN ?
ITS WORTH AT LEAST ONE ROLL OF PAPER
PROVIDED ITS ON SALE
I find it ironic that the Reidy award is being named a give back award when all the guy ever did was take. Very sad actually not to mention a very lame and failed attempt at revisionist history.
Reidy Legacy
HE LACKED THE STRENGTH OF HIS PROPOSED CONVICTIONS AND NEVER FAILED TO EXHIBIT IT
USUALLY STARTED AFTER LUNCH AT O’GRADYS
Wasn’t he married to that fat chick that worked at Legal Aid ?
She got dumped from RC before she ended up there. Now she’s back at the PD rolling around. Same big mouth.
Glass & Rastatter snubbed again.
Real criminal defense lawyers would be embarrassed to be considered and wouldn’t stoop to belong to a play dough bunch of pretenders like the pussies in bacdl.
One time Judge Futch even let me ride in his patrol car.
Time to suit up. I have to deal with Judge Ross today.
I WASNT CALLED MORON ROSS FOR NOTHING
I EARNED THE TITLE
Broward Cowards let Satzy and the big bad Bench Bullies run them around like donkeys for a bunch of measly SPD cases.
Nobody really cares about BACDL at all. They’ve prostituted themselves to the point that it’s become laughable if it weren’t so pathetic. I stopped having anything to do with it years ago when I saw just how cheaply they were selling themselves out for. All it takes is to attend a few meetings to see what’s really going on.
If it makes them feel relevant to hand out a couple of awards, let them do it. Everybody knows just how worthless its become.
The Judge was uglier than Mr. Ed’s grandmother but I really needed that continuance.
BACDL = The best for less
Don’t expect much and you won’t be disappointed
Hey, Mike: You’re getting a little old to be still be playing kindergarten games.
Don’t blame Mr. Satz for it all. He couldn’t have done all the mass incarceration, the softness on corruption and certainly all the wrongful convictions without a timid and arguably complicit defense bar.
THEY MADE FOIE GRAS OUT OF THE SPD GOLDEN GOOSE?