We’re told both the SAO’s Economic Crimes Unit (ECU) and Drug Trafficking Unit (DTU) are being placed under the supervision of the current Assistant State Attorney In Charge of the Cyber Crimes Unit (CYU), Justin Griffis, come August.
The current heads of ECU and DTU are reportedly approaching retirement towards the end of August …
DEVELOPING …
Who cares.
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Look, this is really starting to piss off me and a few other bacdl members, all this crap about Harry Gulkin. Like that’s not even a Pic of him,, I never met him, nor seen his Pic but come on.
I never heard of that. Followership? What the heck.
Galkin beyter be there when Chief Judge Phillips addresses us. He better not embarrass us by not showing up like on Law Day.
Someone said he was on location.
Lies My Lawyer Told Me To Get My Retainer Money has been optioned for a reality show I think.
Starring Jeff Bloom as the main antogonist / retainer taker.
Jeff is hoping that, if he does a good job in the reality show, he’ll have a better chance at the coveted award next year.
Mr. Gulkim is more of a figurehead these days. He doesn’t do any of the work at BACDL anymore. He’s not on the board or anything. Its nice he makes his opinions known but it doesn’t mean he’s obligated to go to the events.
Thats because he’s long gone (dead for a long time)
That’s one way of looking at it. Getting stuck in Montreal after visiting family and scouting locations because your visa’s revoked by the Trump Administration is definitely a terrible fate after so many productive years in Florida. I hope BACDL uses all its influence to get him home before the gala. Its a slight against Chief Judge Phillips too if he isn’t there so maybe they can play that card in addition to the tremendous world class legal resources the organization possesses.
I picked up this flyer at Law Day. Someone mentioned its Harry’s latest film?
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No that’s different that’s a book by Larry Levine.
Glupnik’s making a reality TV show called Lies My Lawyer Told Me To Get My Retainer Fee.
Before he was pitching My Lawyer Didn’t Declare Cash Fees And Now He’s A Judge but the networks passed on it as “problematic.”
Now with Harvey stranded in Montreal with Visa problems where he was trying to scrape together funding from the old schmatta network he memorialized so poignantly in Lies My Father Told Me it’s unlikely Lies For A Retainer will ever get made anyway.
Does anyone else find it coincidental that Harvey’s so-called disappearance in Canada coincided with the North Korean destroyer capsizing? Is it possible all this lawyer/director stuff is a cover for something much more significant? Is it also why others claim he’s dead? To cover his tracks?
How stupid. Harry wasn’t a spy.
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Face it. He died. July makes it 7 years since he passed.
Does BACDL help raise campaign funds for good judges?
And by good judges i mean judges who 1) Are actually NEUTRAL and don’t rubber stamp everything the police and state do; and 2) judges who don’t abuse their power?
Does BACDL fight to JQC the bad judges?
No?
Then stfu
Mr. Howard Finkelstein quit the organization in disgust because they put money over Gideon.
They actually fought against ERU and wanted people to sit scared and confused and often alone with no representation.
Can anyone fathom that kind of crud from a so called Defense Bar.
Wow!!
THE REAL GLUPSKIN ONION
Is that Ted Kaufman?
That’s great but when will the SAO actually prosecute the police?
This blog always talks about the bad judges but what about the disgraceful cops? And disgraceful prosecutors?
Why aren’t they in jail?
Yeah like Chandler
Seriously? Why not fold up the entire Trafficking Unit?
They essentially are by placing an incompetent prosecutor at the wheel. Jemal would have been a much better choice. Pryor is a traitor
Ha, Ha, Jamel Marshall?! Did a trial w him (I won), but he perpetuated some fraud argument during trial claiming the inmate defendant must have done some kind of trickery to make his FB posts show a 2018 date on them.
Yeah, Jamel, a Def w his jail computer!! It was fun beating Jamel & Camille down relentlessly during that closing argument.
Where’s Ted Daus when you need him?
Slob unit.
Why not fold it all up. A bunch file holding people wasting everyone’s time. Just to maintain a job. Courtroom to courtroom and always late. They’re always too busy to discuss the case but will sit at the table drink coffee and talk with their cronies. And don’t even try calling them during the week. Email only if they respond to that.
Today we have so many ways to communicate. Yet, No One communicates to anyone.
I want to go back to the rotary dial phone to communicate. Not really but, at least there was communication.
Is this a joke?
Justin can’t try himself out of a paper bag let alone run these units. This is hilarious. Hey but good for us on the defense bar
True DAT!
Justin is one step away from being a bean head flake
lol griffins is the biggest idiot. This is just one more example of HP’s utter stupidity
Old news. Justin been bragging about this for a month.
I didn’t hear nothing and I laughed when I read it because Dtu sucks and deserves to be demoted.
amen
I’m glad the big dude got passed over.
I haven’t seen Neuner in forever anyway.
No court Neuner—-like a unit w four lawyers and one doesn’t hardly go to court. What a waste of money.
Thank God they finally put the old witch out to pasture !
She’s been MIA for a long time anyway, but it good hear she’s gone for good !
WHAT TO DO MOMMA ?
Remember when he tried Roman the diddler and messed it up so badly that Francis needed to come in and take the case from him. To my recollection that is the only case griffins has ever tried. At least MJS was smart enough to keep him out of the trial scene. nice pic HP. Duh
He’s too Faye to try a case. He’d be better off selling lingerie …
RELEASE THE PRISONERS
OPEN THE JAILS
PRODUCTS OF THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES
One of the most difficult tasks in life is explaining advanced information to really stupid people.
Alspector is a terrible judge. And an even worse human being because she is so cruel and callous to the defendants.
Alspector has never been a fair judge
She’s Insufferable
The following judges were the worst. And by “worst” i mean they had no ounce of impartiality, they actively helped the prosecution, had no ounce of fairness, never granted motions to suppress, had no respect for our 4th amendment, and were cruel at sentencing.
Ilona Holmes
Ana Gardiner
Barbara McCarthy
Elizabeth Scherer
Dennis Bailey
Susan Alspector
Geoffrey Cohen
Who is missing?
You missed:
Cheryl Aleman
Leonard Feiner
Two of the most miserable kuntz .. ever
I ANSWERED TO A HIGHER AUTHORITY
Paul Backman maybe?
And what about Coleman he’s not particularly fair either.
PAULIE GIRL WAS NEVER VERY GOOD AT FINANCE
Sprinkles aka Spechler
Martin Fein? George Odom?
At least they got to be a judge. You sit and post all day, from your failing private practice, cutting down everyone because you ran several times and lost. You’re a bitter, washed up old man, get over it. Let’s face it, you’re a narcissist in every aspect of your life.
I SERVED UP THE PORK AND BEANS EVERY DAY IN COURT
I wouldn’t be able to take the pay cut as a judge. It’s chicken feed.
WINNER OF THE WORST OF THE MORONS ON THE BENCH
Backman sucked it for all it was worth as a mediocre judgeand then tried to come back for more at the public trough. He failed miserably, beat by a complete moronic idiot by the name of Brenda Forman.
I seem to recall Paul Backman always ruled for the State in roc court
that A hole Matt Destry is missing from the shitlist.
Banished to the Panhandle of Florida after he lost re-election
NOW I SELL CHICKEN BY THE BUCKET
Who is this?
Give me a double
I wonder if anyone has the BALLS to do a public records request to court admin and/or every judge’s chambers asking for:
-Swipe card meta data
-Number of hearings per afternoon
-All emails exchanged with Harold Pryor’s office
Etc etc
No balls needed, one simply makes the request.
Why are balls needed for that?! What are repurcussions? Oh no, someone might not say Hi in the hallway
Lol why don’t you do it then and share the results for us all on here!
Justin is completely incompetent. A total embarrassment. Harold truly doesn’t care about the citizens of Broward. Justin wasn’t permitted to try cases under MJS…he tried one and completely botched it. I cry for the citizens of Broward.
The SA’s Office is nothing short of a training ground for amateurs
I WAS HAD BIG TIME
RICKIE RETARDO
Paul Donnelly has passed away. Another nice guy gone too soon. RIP.
I never picked up a lunch tab as long as I was a judge in Broward. A shekel saved is a shekel earned.
LOSERS
Assisted living is not what it’s racked up to be ? This is not what I ordered !
CRY FOUL
Here’s to daddy !
Yep. Laz the Spaz was the greasiest pimp ever to sit as a judge
I MISS MY OLD JOB
Didn’t he sentence someone to 60 years??
but it was not a murder nor a sex crime!
When Laz didn’t have his hand out he had his begging bowl tucked under is robe. That guy was the cheapest person I ever knew and one of the worst judges Broward has ever known. He slurped until the very end. Funny how no one even remembers who he was anymore.
His chambers stunk to high heavens. He had the worst case of bladder leak I’ve ever seen.
I say put all the criminals in jail forever
Name a judge who needs to be suspended by the JQC – not for some petty campaign technicality – but for their day to day conduct?
I’ll start:
Susan Alspector
Kal Evans
Thomas Coleman
Definitely Alspector! When is she up for re-election?
She’s like the cruelest judge and believes anything a “victim” says
Haddad must be lording something massive over the JQC for Coleman to stay on the bench
Michael Kaplan needs to be permanently removed from the bench.
Why do you say that?
You should try jail for a day or two before you say ignorant shit like that
What about judges shouldn’t some of them be in jail?
Maybe they would have EMPATHY for others if they had to experience jail.
preach
Have you smelled Justin’s breath? Rotting flesh for real. And he messes with his hair every morning and can’t stop prancing around talking about his hair. Dude, you should lay more attention to your oral hygiene than your hair.
At least he has hair.
What’s he had in his mouth might be the pertinent question ?
I do not want to ever see the name of glop Steen again
Bill: wake up !!!!!!!
Here is the updated list of worst judges!
And by “worst” i mean they had no ounce of impartiality, they were very unfair to the defense, they openly favored the police/prosecution, never granted motions to suppress, and above all they were CRUEL at sentencing.
Ilona Holmes
Ana Gardiner
Barbara McCarthy
Elizabeth Scherer
Dennis Bailey
Susan Alspector
Geoffrey Cohen
Cheryl Aleman
Leonard Feiner
Paul Backman
Matthew Destry
…who is missing!?!?
Dale Ross
Who was he? What he do?
BROWARD HAS A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH ITS JUDGES
Minimum Mandatory IQ Tests for Judges. …
A horrible and callous human being.
Not to mention as stupid as a rock …
Broward judges are bad. But are they any worse than other judges throughout the State!??
Maybe they don’t have “the blog” in other counties so no one talks about it but do you really think they are any fairer to the defense in small counties?
President Trump works everyday. So should everyone his age. Social Security and Medicaid need to be eliminated.
The President is working on a plan for mandatory daily injections of Ozembic type hormones to reduce weight based related diseases like Alzheimers, diabetes, arthritis. This way Americans can all be great and work into their 90’s and beyond. The savings in Social Security and Medicare handouts and associated fraud can be used to make the Golden Dome.
The worst of the scumbags besides Dale Ross when Hollywood ruled the Broward Bench was the scumbag to beat all scumbags Mel Grossman. Just ask Carol Ortman.
Tell us younger folk about Mel Grossman? What did he do? What was he like?
Idk but he kinda looks like David Lee Roth now lol.
You are right!
UGH ?
Pro police bias is the biggest problem plaguing our judiciary. The persistent incompetence, the day-to-day laziness, and the tantrums in open court are the least of it.
It’s the bias. We do not have a fair and impartial judiciary in this country.
It’s time the judiciary realize that its job is more than ruling on objections or running a docket. Its job is to enforce the bill of rights.
That means you grant motions to suppress.
That means you don’t fucking set unaffordable bonds.
That means you don’t rubber stamp everything the prosecution asks for.
That means CHECKS AND BALANCES on the police and prosecutors.
That means you, Tom Coleman. That means you, Susan Alspector. And that means you, George Odom.
Michael “I lost then I won a few hours later when cops found more ballots” Usan should be on the list.
Unless it’s a cop defendant, Usan does whatever the State asks. He has no money saved up, and he so sees it as job security to side w the SAO.
Oh yeah, we all remember that odd guy who has space at Cohen’s office, the guy nobody hired.
The COPS are the ones who found more ballots????
That’s a total fiction.
I just looked it up:
News reports from that election first declared his challenger, Richard Kaplan, as the winner.
Then a couple hours later, more ballots were “found”. What part is fiction – the cops being the ones who found the ballots?
People keep adding to the list of WORST judges, so it needs to be amended.
“Worst” means they had no ounce of impartiality, they were very unfair to the defense, they openly favored the police/prosecution, never granted motions to suppress when they should have, and above all they were VERY CRUEL at sentencing.
1. Ilona Holmes
2. Barbara McCarthy
3. Elizabeth Scherer
4. Ana Gardiner
5. Matthew Destry
6. Mel Grossman
7. Dale Ross
8. Geoffrey Cohen
9. Susan Alspector
10. Dennis Bailey
11. Cheryl Aleman
12. Leonard Feiner
13. Paul Backman
…now we just need to work together to rank them! How is this for a first attempt?
Need to add Usan, as far as doing whatever the SAO wants.
Usan is a state patsy
How many criminal court judges actively socialize with the State Attorneys assigned to their courtroom?
Criminals deserve what they get.
Cops are criminals
What percentage of motions to suppress are granted in Broward?
2%? 3%
It doesn’t make it to 5%. So yes the bias is real!
impossible to tell but almost none they do whatever MJS say
Susan has flown under the radar for a long time and no one talks enough about her but she is up there with the worst of them. when the State says “jump” she says “how high madam prosecutor?”
Bout time someone notice
Where is Judge Zebedee Wright when you need him?
I always loved that name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmVBUmuZvpU
I didn’t know Harry knew Alex Karras. Big fan. Go Lions.
About time to hang it up Harry. You’re dead.
I’M NOT VERY FAIR EITHER BUT NOONE NOTICES
THE DANCE OF THE SUGAR PLUM FAIRY
Bill: need new fodder!
Bill: why do you and all the other criminal defense lawyers keep speaking out on behalf of the criminals. They deserve what they get.
There’s a thin line between being a “victim” and a “criminal”. Sometimes it is who the police choose to believe at the scene. Sometimes it varies on who won or lost a fight.
Sometimes a person commits a crime (e.g. assault). But was it an attempted murder punishable by life? No.
Lastly, our constitution matters. The bill of rights matters. Due process matters. Without these things we are no different than North Korea. Without these things we have no justice.
And we cannot have justice if our judges are unfair, biased, incompetent, and lazy schmucks.
Harry made a short film once called Lazy Schmucks about the Vaudeville act his aunt Ruth and uncle Milton had in the 1920’s. Ruth later became a paralegal and inspired him to become a lawyer. She was very formative to Harry because she also had piqued his interest in the creative arts. Lazy Schmucks incorporated pie fights and what was called ‘stoogeing’ a popular stage technique later made world famous in the new talking film technology by the Three Stooges.
Did they dig Harry up so he could star as one of the three stooges, or was that Harry that directed it ? Lol
Let the guy RIP.
Futch reminded me of Moe.
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GOT ANY VACANCIES
BACDL should give it up. The award should be named for someone relevant like George Allen or Howard Finkelstein.
Why don’t they name it for Schreibs?
Allen and Finkelschmuk both were absorbed into the greasy machine in the end becoming nothing more than ass wipes to the corrupted system, complicit in its injustice.
Allen has done nothing but grease his own skids for years !
Finkelstein isn’t much better when he runs out of one liners.
We can do much better than either one of them.
BACDL HAS AS MUCH COURAGE AS A FAINTING GOAT
Its what happens when you put a bimbo in charge
THE REAL THREE STOOGES
Two terms as an incompetent self-aggrandizing chief judge of a circuit coming apart at the seams was enough … Good riddance to a burned out puff
SLURPED MY LAST FREE TACO
By the looks of it, Diaz barely managed to crawl to the finish line ..
The SAO problems started with MJS and continue with HP because Broward voters had few options and bad info. Here are my top five observations of SAO bad history:
1)Too many NSU law grad employees
2)Too few ASAs challenging MJS at the stupid Tuesday/Thursday morning meetings
3)MJS thought his employees should work for pittance but he rewarded butt kissers
4)MJS was rigid, unlikeable, and unaware of personnel misfits
5)MJS did nothing about bad, inbred Broward Judges
HP learned nothing under his time with MJS
Is the JNC taking applications for Judge Farmer’s seat?
The hiring of too many Nova law grads, at least to the rest of us who practice law, was a bad move.
They don’t get the big picture, kinda like Bradford Cohen raising his voice at a suppression hearing – bc he just doesn’t “get it”.
But hey, at least NSU is a place of last resort –
NSU slogan: “for those who couldn’t get accepted elsewhere, and are willing to pay for it!”
Did Farmer quit or swallow the pill ?
I have read all there is about Gulkin. For the life of me I cannot understand why some award would be named after this chump. This is some sorry ass group.
Prosecutor. Judge. Defense Attorney. Golden Globe Winner. Renaissance Man. That’s why.
But never a public defender so he ain’t shit
Its perfect for a Satz infested ratz nest fake defense bar.
Nothing to read. He was a one time appointed Broward Judge that got his azz handed to him by voters after one term and the guy has been trying to conjure an invented storyline ever since. One time Louie should be his nickname. The other judges being what they are used to give him court appointments to keep the old fart afloat feeling sorry for the guy and thinking one day that could be me type of thing.
The only thing he ever directed or for that matter produced was a path to the toilet bowl if he was lucky.
Well I guess I’ll be the one to tell the story.
Harry wasn’t a director. He was a producer.
He tried to direct once. It was an ambition I suppose.
Here’s the story then.
The I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter advertising agency was looking for locally made commercials by local companies featuring local motifs. Images featuring the margarine spread on local delicacies with local scenes.
Harry was given the chance to compete for the southeast US campaign as the director. Grossman may have helped him via the Tourism Board. Plus he had his producer GG credit.
Anyway Harry, for like $35,000 (a lot back then), directed some beautiful 30 second spots in Atlanta (featuring some of the Braves), Little Rock, and on Florida beaches. By all regards they were polished pieces of work.
The problem?
Harry used the tag line I Can’t Believe It’s Hot Butter.
Hot Butter. That’s not a typo.
He lost the contract. It was crushing.
Some of the smart alecks around the courthouse started calling him Hot Butter Harry. Then it became HB for short. But no less stinging.
The whisper was Harry had been too busy trying DUI cases while the shoot was going on. Because he was so distracted he made the fatal error. It was the first sign of Harry’s fallability.
BACDL may have a copy of the reel somewhere in Harry’s film and legal archives above the old Jimmy’s food store.
It would be fun to see now.
Now that’s a great story!
The blog is so interesting. I once called him ‘HB’ because I thought it was his Hollywood playa moniker. I was a new lawyer. I thought it was a compliment but he gave me the dirtiest look! Now I know why.
That’s awesome, and so good to set the record “straight” on Harry Gulkin’s “hot butter” nickname.
When I was a newbie hearing about this guy, I always assumed he earned the “hot butter” name for that short commercial he did in Wilton Manors.
Harry got roped into all those DUI trials bc the BACDL guys back then were making Harry cover their cases while they did blow at Brownie’s Bar on Andrews.
I’ll bet that’s how he figured out the story line to “Lies My BACDL Lawyer Told Me, (before I gave him a retainer)”
He and his wife Susan were a mom and pop one stop legal flop. …
When is this year’s HB Gluskin Award gala?
If Harry is the best bacdl can come up with for a cover girl, a has been judge, It’s pretty pathetic. It tells it all.
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At least he tried. What else have you done but make dumb posts?
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Archives? Are you saying my dues are being used to house Galkin’s stuff?
Seriously? Is this accurate? Our dues are used to store his films?
No, no, no. Every last court disposition, legal pad, binder clip and reel of film was carried away years ago by Richard Dreyfuss’s production company. He had optioned Harry’s memoir “Res! Ipsa! Action!” for a possible Lifetime movie. It never got made.
I PLACE HOMELESS PEOPLE ON HOUSE ARREST
Susan really does have the “crazy eyes”
she is one others should avoid dealing with
Kathy Batez -Misery
She’s a real carney
Now that the President has realized the Federalist Society is a bunch of “sleazebags” it’s time for true MAGA Americans to help him find true MAGA Judges who will end Social Security and Medicaid and put all Americans to work by ending all government handouts. President Trump is in his 70’s and works daily as should all Americans. End the nanny state.
I am utterly sick of this Glupskin guy and the defense bar needs to move away from this now. Stop it already he was a nothing.
We should discuss naming it for someone else.At our next meeting. Someone that wasn’t a State Attorney and a Judge. It’s so stupid.
Exactly!!! Maybe someone who was a public defender, and a prominent high-end criminal defense attorney, AND who also accomplished other things in their life.
Someone who made a difference in the fight against the abuses of the police, the prosecutors, and the judges. Someone who was a talented trial lawyer but maybe also a senator or prominent philanthropist.
There’s gotta be better options
The only people like that are Gordon Weekes, Michael Gottlieb and Howard Finkelstein. Or it could be named for Gideon. Anyone but a tomato peeler for Satz like Harry and all those other Bacdl dinosaurs were.
Gordon Weekes ? Are you joking.
He hasn’t done anything except accept Howard’s retirement. Gordon was never a private lawyer, and shamefully hides from taking on any cases as the PD
And worst of all, he ONLY got elected PD bc Broward votes based on skin color.
How about a Hot Buttered Harry Gulpkin film festival ?
How about the haddad, Dutko, bluestein, cohen, BOGEY, or Howard (ask me Howard) the list is longer than the bad judges.
For crying out loud. Bogey was a prosecutor. Dytko was a police officer. The Haddad would be good. It’s about being on the side of the little guy against all odds from day 1.
I feel bad for this Harry Guklin person now that I’ve learned about the butter thing.
Haddad is a p_ssy, and never stood up to any judges.
Bogenschutz liked judges too much, he married one.
Gottlieb (Ken?) is a weak judge, And Mike Gottlieb is the guy who got elected State Rep solely bc of his Jewish name,,, and then actually was the Sole vote AGAINST the bill to protect public defenders. A bill named for Drew Atria’s son who was working at Regional and got punched by a Def.
Haddad is a hair ball with a big mouth
They all took the government cheese
THE BANANA PACKS A MEAN PUNCH
She was defrocked but I kept her pension for both of us before we flew the coop
Get rid of the award entirely
No, it’s important. They give Judges awards just for standing up straight. Lawyers are more important and do all the heavy lifting. They have awards for prosecutors too. There should be an award for great defense work too. I agree though. It should be named for a thoroughbred defense lawyer. Not a former prosecutor. It’s not a stinking mercenary award
Worthless awards for Worthless Cheesers
Is this the line for free tacos ?
Do criminal defense lawyers think about the victims? NO.
Ask your clients why they committed a crime.
They belong in jail with severe punishment.
What victim? It’s a possession of a plant.
What victim? The other guy started the fight
What victim? They both decided to fight but the state always picks a side: that is “victim” that one is “defendant”
What victim? It’s a crooked cop who claims every arrestee “hits” him.
Get outta here
Why do so many young black males have guns and why do they shoot people with them?
TO THE BIGGEST PUFF ON HIS WAY OUT THE DOOR
Who cares good riddance tooty
All this Gulkin Award talk makes me think ‘You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain.’
Not one comment on getting rid of the lazy DTU people and cleaning house on that shit bag of a unit. Shouldn’t even be in existence. A first-year law student can try a 25-year min man case where the guy was selling to a CI. It became a honey hole for prosecutors that don’t want to work.