Dershowitz "Angela Corey should be disbarred"!

[Stephen]

Let me know who it is and I will donate money and even work for them.I'll even hold my nose and do the same if it is a Republican. This town needs to grow up, face the 21st Century and get rid of these neanderthals.

[Cheshire Cat]

Let me know who it is and I will donate money and even work for them.I'll even hold my nose and do the same if it is a Republican. This town needs to grow up, face the 21st Century and get rid of these neanderthals.

Keep an eye on the forum and you will know. 

[Cheshire Cat]

Well, we learned two more things about Rick Scott in the past few days via his response to protests in his office and via letter from a Florida equal rights group. 

First, he supports the "Stand Your Ground" laws as written.
Second, he will not remove Angela Corey from the Davis case.

http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2013-07-25/story/governor-rejects-groups-request-angela-corey-be-removed-trial

[Cheshire Cat]

Another straw on the camels back. Angela Corey is being sued by her former IT Director for 5 million dollars.

By Larry Hannan   

The former information technology director for State Attorney Angela Corey is suing for wrongful termination.

Ben Kruidbos sued Corey's office Thursday saying he was illegally fired in June after he testified that prosecutors did not turn over all information to George Zimmerman's defense team in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

He is asking for $5 million or more in damages and his job back.

The lawsuit states Kruidbos could not be fired for testifying in a judicial proceeding in response to a subpoena. It also argues that the firing was retaliation for his testimony in the Zimmerman case.

"It's important to understand that we're not just saying my client was wrongfully terminated," attorney Wesley White said. "We're also saying that the state attorney broke the law."

Florida law prohibits firing people for testifying in trials they've been subpoenaed to take part in, and that's what Corey did to Kruidbos, White said.

The lawsuit should also send a message to Corey that she has no right to fire dedicated employees who are trying to do the right thing, White said.

The letter firing Kruidbos said he did a poor job overseeing the information technology department, violated public records law for retaining documents and noted he was questioned in March when the office was trying to determine who had leaked personnel information obtained through a computer breach.

It also said Kruidbos was not a lawyer and didn't have the right to question the ethics and professionalism of the attorneys prosecuting the case.

"Your egregious lack of regard for the sensitive nature of the information handled by this office is completely abhorrent," the hand-delivered letter said. "You have proven to be completely untrustworthy. Because of your deliberate, wilful and unscrupulous actions, you can never again be trusted to step foot in this office."

Kruidbos used computer software technology to extract photographs and text messages from the source file in Martin's cellphone. He was able to recover more information than the Florida Department of Law Enforcement obtained previously.

Kruidbos said he became concerned that lead prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda might not have turned over Kruidbos' report to defense attorneys.

White then contacted one of Zimmerman's attorneys and learned the defense had not received the report generated by Kruidbos. The defense did receive the source file from the cellphone and used its own experts to extract data.

Before the trial began Zimmerman's attorneys subpoenaed both White and Kruidbos during a pretrial hearing on their motion seeking sanctions against prosecutors. Circuit Judge Debra Nelson deferred a decision on whether to sanction the prosecution and still hasn't made a ruling.

The State Attorney's Office said it has received a copy of the lawsuit but due to the pending litigation cannot comment further

Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2013-08-01/story/former-it-director-sues-state-attorney-angela-corey-wrongful-termination#ixzz2aqPgJ1Cy

http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2013-08-01/story/former-it-director-sues-state-attorney-angela-corey-wrongful-termination

[John P]

Ask police what they think of her. They love her b ecause she puts criminals in jail. She is not lenient and puts people in jail for crimes period. Good old Harry Shorestein had a "soft on crime" reputation that people did not like. The cops hated him for it. Corey is Shorestein's opposite. Do the crime and do the time.

[spuwho]

Hmmm, what if you found your employer was withholding evidence in relation to a murder trial?

Would you just stand by?

Would you whistleblow?

[ChriswUfGator]

Ask police what they think of her. They love her b ecause she puts criminals in jail. She is not lenient and puts people in jail for crimes period. Good old Harry Shorestein had a "soft on crime" reputation that people did not like. The cops hated him for it. Corey is Shorestein's opposite. Do the crime and do the time.

Well not when she loses at trial, which happens frequently.

Shorstein brought the cases he knew the law supported. I'm sorry having a reputation for charging a ham sandwich if she didn't like the flavor apparently buys her credibility in the eyes of law enforcement.

[NotNow]

"In 2010-'11, Corey's office took 270 cases to jury trial, resulting in 27 acquittals or dismissals, 25 pleas and 218 convictions."

"We don't apologize for prosecuting violent or repeat offenders," she says. In a telephone interview, Corey said she's proud of her record as a zealous prosecutor in the three-county Fourth Judicial District (Clay, Duval and Nassau counties). She insists she isn't one to toot her own horn — "I don't hold a whole lot of press conferences. I just want to be left alone and do my job" — but points to a conviction rate of 91.6 percent in fiscal year 2010-'11. By comparison, figures provided by Corey's office show former State Attorney Harry Shorstein's conviction rates were mostly in percentages of low to mid-70s."



http://www.folioweekly.com/THE-PUNISHER,135

[ChriswUfGator]

Those figures count ANY conviction at trial, NotNow. Take a DUI for example, if the defendant was stopped for speeding and charged with DUI and then takes it to trial and gets acquitted of DUI but found guilty of speeding, they still count it as a win, lol. If a defendant gets acquitted of 5 felonies but got a parking ticket at the courthouse, they'd probably call it a win. Their statistics also don't take into account reversals on appeal. Her real ratio is unknown, but the usual guess is it's probably somewhere around 50%, that's if you count by charge not just by defendant. The way they choose what counts and what doesn't skews the numbers horribly.

It gets even more absurd if you look at how many defendants are charged in total in this circuit vs. the number actually convicted, period. Once again, their figures don't take into account pretrial dismissals under 3.190 etc., they don't take into account pretrial nolle prosequis, no-files, discharges, or pretty much anything else, although anyone would recognize that's a loss.

[JayBird]

Ask police what they think of her. They love her b ecause she puts criminals in jail. She is not lenient and puts people in jail for crimes period. Good old Harry Shorestein had a "soft on crime" reputation that people did not like. The cops hated him for it. Corey is Shorestein's opposite. Do the crime and do the time.

Umm this statement is VERY inaccurate. Actually, it is just a straight lie.

[JayBird]

Oops my apologies.

Revised: Gee John P, could you explain what facts you base this opinion on?

[Cheshire Cat]

Another one of Angela Corey's high profile cases has been taking much criticism.  Now it appears that a judge has ordered a new trial. 

http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=540631

New trial in Alexander case

Friday, September 27, 10:24 AM EDT

The News Service of Florida
The 1st District Court of Appeal on Thursday ordered a new trial for Marissa Alexander, a Jacksonville woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for a shot fired during a 2010 domestic dispute.

The appeals court found that a Duval County circuit judge erred in his jury instructions, though it supported the judge's ruling that Alexander could not plead immunity under Florida's "stand your ground" law.

State Attorney Angela Corey's office said in a statement that prosecutors are "gratified that the court affirmed the ... 'stand your ground' ruling. This means the defendant will not have another 'stand your ground' hearing."

Circuit Judge James H. Daniel instructed the jury that Alexander, now a 32-year-old mother of three, had to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that she feared an aggravated assault at the hands of her husband, Rico Gray. The jury convicted her of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which carries a mandatory sentence of 20 years.

The appeals court ruled that Daniel's instructions put too much of a burden on Alexander. 

Alexander testified that Gray had charged her "in a rage" and threatened to kill her. And Gray, 37, admitted in a deposition to beating and choking women, including Alexander.

Daniel was not persuaded that Alexander was in danger.

Alexander's attorneys said she was grateful for the decision and "expressed her continued confidence in the judicial system's ability to correct mistakes ... (and) her desire to be back with her children and family.