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Hit-run killer Ryan LeVin allowed to travel
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsNothing like some good outrage for the holiday season. The cases involving notorious South Florida deadly drivers John Goodman and Ryan LeVin have provided plenty. When I heard that Goodman had been allowed to return to his Wellington mansion to......Tags: Leukemia, Weddings, Family, Howard Finkelstein, Prosecution
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Goodman's $2k-a-day home jailing unfair
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsThe next time someone says the justice system treats offenders equally, just tell them about John Goodman, the Wellington polo magnate convicted of manslaughter DUI. He's already been tried, already been convicted and already has been sentenced to 16...Tags: Judges, Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, Holidays, Justice System
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Palm Beach jail debacle: Big bucks for fewer beds
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsHow does a county spend big bucks on a jail expansion that leaves the county with fewer jail beds than when it started? Just ask Palm Beach County, which has managed the trick with its recent troubled jail construction project,......Tags: South Florida Fairgrounds, Ric Bradshaw, Broward County, Palm Beach County
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Goodman's girlfriend/daughter: 'He is a good man'
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsIn a letter to the judge who is scheduled to sentence Wellington polo magnate John Goodman for DUI manslaughter on Friday (if a mistrial isn't declared), the girlfriend who became his adopted daughter extolled Goodman's virtues and told how he......Tags: New York City, Outback Steakhouse Incorporated, Judges, Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice
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Private prisons are a bad idea
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsIf you repeat something often enough, people start to believe it. And so it was with the buzzword "privatization," which took hold in Florida during the Jeb Bush era. Private companies could always do things smarter, better, cheaper and more......Tags: Company Privatization, Government, Executive Branch, Privatization, Jeb Bush
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Did Chaits get off easy with plea deal?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsIs it any less of a crime to corrupt the political process by paying a bribe as opposed to taking a bribe? Put another way: Why did former Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion get a 2 1/2-year prison sentence for......Tags: Elections, Broward County, Public Officials, Trials, Josephus Eggelletion
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Sheriff Lamberti on jail deputy demotions: A job is better than no job
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsThe worst thing that a worker could hear is: You're fired. I imagine the second-worst thing is what 247 Broward Sheriff's jail deputies have been told: Take a 25 percent pay cut or you're fired. "It bothers me -- nobody......Tags: Ken Jenne, Unions, Employees, Collective Contract, Crime, Law and Justice
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Gloucester dentist Bill Dodson found guilty on gun charge
Who's on Team Gloucester?A judge found Gloucester dentist Bill Dodson guilty today of pointing or brandishing a firearm at another in a case that highlighted "bad blood" in the Clay Bank area. General District Court Judge Jeffrey Shaw ordered Dodson to pay a $500......Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Dentistry and Dental Health, Justice System, Health
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Broward government is crazy (in a bad way)
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsWhat kind of governing body demands big budget cuts from its biggest spender, then turns around and sticks him with a big expense at the same time? The Broward County Commission, that's who. The same Broward County Commission that can't......Tags: Broward County Commission, Crime, Law and Justice, Budgets and Budgeting, State Budgets, Al Lamberti
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Should Leyritz get jail time for DUI conviction?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsGiven the inconclusive testimony about whether ex-New York Yankee Jim Leyritz ran a red light before crashing into Fredia Veitch in Decmeber 2007, it's no surprise that a Broward jury came back with a split verdict over the weekend. Leyritz......Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Florida Highway Patrol, Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, New York
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Judge metes out 38-year prison term in country store robbery
Who's on Team Gloucester?A Newport News man was sentenced to 38 years in prison last week for the armed robbery of Rick's Country Store and other breaking and entering charges. Anthony Goins and another man robbed the rural store at the intersection of......Tags: Defense, Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, Theft, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Leyritz DUI sentencing at 2 p.m. Thursday
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsFormer New York Yankee Jim Leyritz will learn today whether he'll get jail time for his December 2007 drunk-driving wreck that killed Fredia Veitch, a mother of two who had also been drinking that night. Sentencing is set for 2......Tags: Family, Judges, Trials, Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice
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