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Howard Finkelstein is a retired American attorney who served as the public defender of Broward County, Florida. He was first elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2008, 2012, and 2016. He was first elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2008, 2012, and 2016.
The Florida Supreme Court building. The Supreme Court of Florida is the highest court in the U.S. state of Florida.The Supreme Court consists of seven judges: the Chief Justice and six Justices who are appointed by the Governor to 6-year terms and remain in office if retained in a general election near the end of each term. [2]
— The judge who handled the Parkland mass shooting case is so biased in favor of the prosecution that she cannot be trusted to oversee cases handled by the Broward Public Defender’s Office ...
The chambers of six judges, the clerk's office, the marshal's office, and the court records are located in the court's Lakeland headquarters. The court hears oral arguments in both its Lakeland and Tampa courtrooms. Periodically, the court also hears oral arguments in county courthouses in various counties within the district.
[4] [7] Unhappy working as a corporate lawyer, Fried left Holland & Knight in 2006 and became a public defender for Florida's 8th circuit court, which covers much of North Central Florida, including Alachua County. [3] Fried was a foreclosure defense lawyer from 2009 until 2011, when she joined the law and lobbying firm of Colodny Fass.
The request was centered around alleged wrongdoing by the lead detective — and a supposed cover up by the State Attorney’s Office. YNW Melly’s lawyers want to remove the Broward prosecutors ...
The public defender system is not the only form of indigent defense program offered in the United States. Besides the public defender system, there are two other main alternatives: assigned-counsel system and contract-service system. [3] Assigned-counsel is where the court appoints a private lawyer to defend someone who cannot afford to pay. [3]
In 1991, Oliphant was appointed by then-Governor Lawton Chiles to the Broward County School Board. She would subsequently win two elections to the office. Alan Schreiber, head of Broward County's Public Defender's office, helped Oliphant in her re-election campaigns. Oliphant had been a witness coordinator for Schreiber.