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Florida Fridays

I’ve talked before about my love for good ol’ Florida. Here’s two more reasons to love the Sunshine State.

First, in a rather tragic turn of events, a family is suing Polk County following the 2002 death of their teenage son. The sixteen-year-old died in a car crash which was the result of a car chase involving speeds up to 120 miles per hour. The boy and his friend were being chased by a local deputy and the “only in Florida” part is that the deputy was allegedly chasing the boys because he was a pedophiliac who intended to sexually assault them. The deputy has since pled guilty to charges of practicing medicine without a license, for pretending to be a doctor’s aide and conducting exams on young men, and is currently rotting in jail.

Second, a Miami man is currently awaiting trial on murder charges. His case is set to go to trial in July, but he has had trial dates come and go before because he apparently doesn’t like lawyers - the man was just appointed his tenth defense lawyer in the case. As a result of having chewed through nine lawyers already, his case is eight years old. The prosecutor on the case, who’s been involved for all eight years, believe the man is strategically not getting along with his court-appointed lawyers to to avoid being tried for the gruesome allegations of kidnapping a woman and her five-year-old daughter, and eventually murdering the little girl. Why hasn’t a judge put the kibosh on this long ago, you ask? Because it’s Florida!

I seriously don’t get what’s in the drinking water down there.

Posted by Seth on May 26, 2006 | Comments (2)