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The Williams Rule is based on the holding in the Florida state case of Williams v. State [ 1 ] in which relevant evidence of collateral crimes is admissible at jury trial when it does not go to prove the "bad character" or "criminal propensity" of the defendant but is used to show motive, intent, knowledge, modus operandi , or lack of mistake.
Scherer graduated from Florida State University with a B.A. in English and received a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law. [6] She is the daughter of William R. Scherer, a private attorney who was part of the legal team representing George W. Bush during the 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida. [3]
Strict rules of evidence is a term sometimes used in and about Anglophone common law.The term is not always seen as belonging to technical legal terminology; legislation seldom if ever names a set of laws with the term "strict rules of evidence"; and the term's precise application varies from one legal context to another.
The 11 seats up for grabs in Miami-Dade’s and Broward’s circuit and county courts were all contested. Four incumbent judges keep seats and 7 first-timers elected to bench in South Florida Skip ...
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]
District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg: West Palm Beach: 1962 2014–present — — Obama: 67 District Judge Roy Altman: Miami: 1982 2019–present — — Trump: 68 District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz: Miami: 1979 2019–present — — Trump: 69 District Judge Rodney Smith: Ft. Lauderdale: 1974 2019–present — — Trump: 70 District Judge Raag Singhal ...
A Broward judge, the lawyers in his courtroom and a man accused of waving a gun to shut down a wedding reception at the venue he owns in Southwest Ranches all put on virtual reality headsets ...
Larry Seidlin (born May 24, 1950) is an American judge. He was a State Court judge for the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida in and for Broward County . He was the presiding judge during the infamous Anna Nicole Smith body custody hearing after her death.