SPENCER OUT …

*UPDATE* – text received from Jordy Spencer at 6:01 PM:

I am postponing my run for judge until 2024 due to the medical decline of a family member. I want to thank my friends, family and firm for their continued support during this difficult time.

And a text at 6:02 PM from her former opponent Mike Ahearn:

I was saddened to see Ms. Spencer is leaving our race due to a family illness. I have come to know her over the last few months and found her to be someone who would have been a tough opponent. I wish her well in her future endeavors and my prayers to her family.

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Jordanne Spencer has quit the race to fill the county seat vacated by Mindy Solomon, after paying the $6255.08 qualifying fee on April 29th, leaving the following three candidates in place:

131 thoughts on “SPENCER OUT …”

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    Due to the declining health a family member I am putting run for judge on hold until 2024! Thank you to my family, friends, and firm for their support during this difficult time.

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      Now, in Broward County under a new administrative order, fewer people arrested in Broward County will have to wait to see a judge.
      The order was issued by Broward County Chief Judge Jack Tuter.
      “Holding people in custody on low-level offenses is just not the way to run a criminal justice system,” said Tuter.
      Most people booked on non-violent, third-degree felony and misdemeanor charges in Broward County will be released from jail and told when to show up for court without seeing a judge or paying a bond.

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      Watch out for 2024. Presidential election years bring out the big bucks

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        Anybody but Moron Mindy. She’s been a embarrassment since taking the bench, even for county.

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        You think he will stop at county if he wins? He will run for circuit in 2 .

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    Which one of you spineless twits is willing to sign up to rule television and film are illegal under Textualism so no one in the future can go back and watch what our Supreme Court Justices said at their Confirmation Hearings?

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        She’s got the scrawl of a child with Down’s syndrome. Hope she paid better attention in law school.

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      Only one person in that photograph was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court. Black woman. Front row center.

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      The judiciary is merely a political branch of activists. They say whatever it takes to get up there. Then they implement the agenda. Dems or Repubs.

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    who gives a rats ass? and how aint this ” courthouse” blog covering Tutor’s latest fiasco, wherein he just signed an Order releasing all non violent 3rd degree felony cases without physical arrest and no $ bond! say ba bye to the bondsman too!

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      TUTER IS A WOKE PHOOEY AND EVERYBODY KNOWS IT
      HE BENDS WITH THE PREVAILING POLITICAL WIND WITH NO HESITATION
      HE’S CLUELESS

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    By the looks of that ransom note, aka resignation letter, has anyone asked if Ahearn had Joe Kimock tied up on the Brooklyn basement?

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      Chris brown will benefit big from this. He has a black sounding name. Aturd is still screwed. Anyone know if Chris brown even knows what a blog is.

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      Ahearn doesn’t give a damn. Spencer withdraws at 4:22. As soon as blog posts story Ahearn rushes to look like he cares. He doesn’t. He isn’t a good person. Slime ball Ahearn just trying to look like a good guy. Don’t be fooled. Wishing Spencer’s family well.

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          He’s good friends with Chief. The podcast was very informative. If he becomes Judge Ahearn I believe there will be many positive changes for the 17th.

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      In a statement, Broward County’s Public Defender Gordon Weekes said:
      “It’s important to take a fresh look at bond reform. This new administrative order moves us toward a system that unravels the disparities in the criminal justice system for individuals that lack the affluence to post a bond for a nonviolent offense. The previous system was greatly weighted in favor of the moneyed and its impact was inadvertently punitive towards the poor who could not afford even a minimal bond.
      “While the rich could immediately bond out without facing a Judge, the working poor would be further set back as they lost their job, get evicted from their homes and have their cars reposed as they sat in jail at a cost of $110 to $130 a day. Merely because they could not afford to post a bond.”

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        Wow. Pryor working at a glaciers pace. BLM is over. How are these guys gonna get elected again?

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      Nah I’ve heard rumors about this withdraw for over a week. I think she also on a leave of absence from work to be with family.

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    Who cares about this. Why are you posting about the no bond in Broward! Aren’t you a defense attorney. Isn’t this bad for business. Not to mention criminals running free

    Now, in Broward County under a new administrative order, fewer people arrested in Broward County will have to wait to see a judge.
    The order was issued by Broward County Chief Judge Jack Tuter.
    “Holding people in custody on low-level offenses is just not the way to run a criminal justice system,” said Tuter.
    Most people booked on non-violent, third-degree felony and misdemeanor charges in Broward County will be released from jail and told when to show up for court without seeing a judge or paying a bond.

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      Elections has consequences. 2020. “The new order in Broward County was a collaborative effort. The state attorney’s office, Broward Sheriff’s Office, the public defender’s office all had to sign off on the order. After a year, they said they will reassess and tweak it as they go.”

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      Don’t worry, if Sokoloff is elected she will fill the jail, and her incompetence will keep the jail filled.

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        Once again they have to announce they are gay. From now on I guess your sexual preference should be announced when you run for a position?

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      OP is foolish. A criminal attorney isn’t about the money. Low rent comment. Hopefully all you criminal guys go broke. Except the good ones.

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      I am sure her association with the recently indicted Omar Smith weighed in on this decision. Unlike the JQC the feds didn’t buy her BS.

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          SHEKEL SUCKERS COME IN LAST
          I SHOULD KNOW – I SUCKED LONG ENOUGH

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            Joel always was scuzz. Always looking for a free lunch. I’ve heard all he does now is roll pennies and watch Fox.

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      Scum Sentinel Editorials aren’t fit for toilet paper. Equally as many people read the crap.

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        It must be Forman’s natural charisma. No matter how offensive the Hitler thing was Congressperson Wasserman Schultz is powerless to resist Forman’s charm?

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      Can you imagine Debbie’s Doughnut 🍩 ?
      Dems are in for a rude awakening in November.

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              Can’t everyone finally agree that damn near all politicians (R and D) who make it to the top are compromised people who will do anything and say anything to become so called Public Servants and can’t we agree to put in term limits and limits on campaign spending so we can have a government of the people and for the people instead of the mess of self-interested people who put themselves above all of us and then make tens or hundreds of millions after they cash out of office?

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                Sure, and drinks at Heat games are going from $20 a pop to $3.99…….

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        Rogow (I was at nsu) was pretty lame. Basically told war stories and raised voice. He isn’t a gentleman lawyer imo.

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      U know it’s not true, and if it was Tuter should have reassigned the CRU Z case to an experienced judge that knows what they’re doing instead of Liz who’s not up to the task obviously.

  6. Bill Gelin "writes for a blog" and repeats to the press only his biased side against the chief judge says:

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    CBS News wrote: “Bill Gelin, a Ft Lauderdale
    defense attorney who writes for a blog said
    “”This is not a Scherer problem; this is a
    chief judge problem … (The chief judge) should
    have scrapped the random process and assigned
    a more-experienced judge or got the prosecutors
    and defense attorneys to agree on one.””

    Gelin doesn’t tell you that these Cruz lawyers
    want errors in this trial so that the trial has to be
    repeated after appeal … For that reason, they
    would not have agreed to a more experienced
    trial judge or to have scrapped the random
    selection of the trial judge.

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      Then why did the defenders file motions to disqualify her that were denied?

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        because defenders’ motion to disqualify
        is an objection, not an agreement with
        prosecutors …. An agreement with
        prosecutors, as Gelin disingenuously
        proposed, waives error they would claim
        on appeal as grounds for a retrial.

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          So stupid…..any Defense Atty would immediately agree to get Judge Scherer off a case.

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            Lynch elected without an opponent.
            Ahearn to be elected soon.
            What was the name of that angry hater?
            Anyone remember?

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              Well at least it’s legible and the lines are straight. Maybe they should turn the paper a little more to the right next time

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      Bill happens to be one hundred correct on this one !
      Elizabeth Scherer should never have been allowed to be the trial judge in this matter.
      From what I’ve watched of this trial, she would have problems doing traffic tickets.

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        I’m in love with the fact she didn’t know what stupid holiday Juneteenth is. It’s gonna come up again…

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      240 am dumbass. They wouldn’t have pled the case if error was the goal.

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        9:44AM must have a skin burn from basking in the light of his own ignorance

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          When Cuddihy asked Tuter to clarify that Scherer had spoken directly to Marcus, “Tuter responded yes, but that it was a ‘private conversation’ and he did not want to bring Judge Scherer ‘into this,'” the motion claims.

          It says Scherer has not notified the defense of the communication, as required by the Code of Judicial Conduct, so “the defendant does not know the extent or duration of the ex parte communication.”

          That fact, combined with Scherer’s prior employment by the state attorney’s office – where she was personally mentored by State Attorney Michael Satz – “has created a reasonable fear defendant that Judge Scherer will not remain impartial and that the defendant will not receive a fair trial in front of this judge.”

          The defense is asking the case be randomly assigned to anther judge.
          https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/parkland-school-gunman-seeks-to-disqualify-judge/2121191/

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        FEEL A LITTLE SORRY FOR LIZ SCHERER. SHE CANT SEEM TO CATCH A BREAK. TUTER SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER TO ALLOW HER TO HEAR THIS CASE.
        TUTER HAS BEEN A STAIRWAY TO HELL FOR THIS CIRCUIT.

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    THE BUCK STOPS HERE IN BROWARD COURTS EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO ME TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANYTHING

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    Everybody knows that Jack Tuter worked for Scherer, ran for judge and miserably lost, was then appointed by the JQC, then skunked his way to Chief Judge, and obviously is aware that the CRUZ CASE should be tried by a veteran judge with Trial experience of which LIz has little to none, but has done nothing as Liz Scherer is going down by the bow as she mucks up this case as both the Prosecution and the Defense are fully aware.

    Rogow is just the go-to pimp that judges have rolled out for years to back up bad decisions of which this candy show is just one. Liz is way out of her depth and everybody knows it.

    To expect Chief Judge Tuter to address this problem in view of his past and many bungles is unrealistic. His motivation has been and always will be to play the credit game. You can with certainty say he deserves the credit for this mess.

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    WE MAY HAVE TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY LIZ THAT YOURE UNDER WATER ON THIS ONE

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    “The Cruz case shows what happens when you have an inexperienced judge handling a high-profile death penalty case,” said Bob Jarvis, a Nova Southeastern University law professor. “Any jurist would have found this to be a tough case to handle, given the inordinate publicity, but a highly trained judge would likely have done better — i.e., kept their composure, avoided obvious mistakes, and given the defense fewer grounds for appeal.”

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      Cruz will never be executed. Too many good objections. Agree with op.

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    Only in Broward would people have to worry about lawyers taking advantage of a Judge.

    For crying out loud.

    My heart sank when I read this part of the article:

    David Weinstein, a Miami criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor, said both sides should use their advanced experience to educate Scherer, not take advantage of her.

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        This is the legacy of the Broward judiciary and the suck-ass 4th DCA that protects and covers-up for it. How many cases did they cover up for ana banana? PCA here we cum.

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      It might have something to do with the stinky job Liz is doing. It’s pathetic really.

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      She was never going to make it in private practice. So her options were always limited to a Gov. Gopher.
      I think she only tried one case while she was in the SA, so it doesn’t surprise me that she’s messing this one up.

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    Does no one else see how absurd this is? Think about it: every comment is talking about how scherer is unfit to handle this type of case. BUT A JUDGE SHOULD BE ABLE TO PRESIDE OVER ANY TYPE OF CASE THAT MIGHT FALL BEFORE HER. So if she’s unfit for this type of case, she is unfit for any case. She has skirted by farming her trials out to other judges, while she strolls in with her Starbucks an hour late for court…and all she does is handle calendar calls. And overly harsh sentencings. She should be recalled. We can’t keep letting independently wealthy people who are not qualified to sit in judgment and get away with fleecing the people. RECALL. RECALL. RECALL.

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    Vote Republican.

    Richard M. Nixon 1968 Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech.

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    I hope I’m doing this right so Mike, Jeff and Carolyn don’t get mad at me.

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