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2. Lawson Thomas - Wikipedia

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   On Thanksgiving of 1937, Thomas appeared in Miami's municipal court to present a case instead of hiring a white attorney to present the case for him. Although the bailiff at first refused to allow Thomas to sit in the front of the courtroom, going so far as to threaten to throw him out the courthouse window, Thomas became the first Black lawyer ...

3. List of first minority male lawyers and judges in Florida

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   Calvin Mapp: [78] First African American male county court judge in Miami-Dade County, Florida; Carlos Benito Fernandez: [17] [18] [79] First Hispanic American male lawyer and judge (1961) in Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida; Wilkie D. Ferguson (c. 1960s): [27] First African American male to serve on the Dade County Circuit Court (1977)

4. Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department

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   On January 1, 1973, the Justice of the Peace Courts, Criminal Court of Record, Circuit Court, Metropolitan Court are all merged into the County Court or Circuit Court. In 1974, the North Dade Detention Center was opened. The master plan was to begin the planning and construction of jails in local communities to service the local population.

5. Controversial former Miami city attorney named state’s ...

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   In a class-action lawsuit that could cost the city millions, a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge ruled in January that the city incorrectly imposed a 15% parking surcharge for years, a case that ...

6. Florida v. Jardines - Wikipedia

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   Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court case which resulted in the decision that police use of a trained detection dog to sniff for narcotics on the front porch of a private home is a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and therefore, without consent, requires both probable cause and a search warrant.

7. Miami’s judicial race story lines: Name change controversy, a ...

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   Cervera has run her own civil practice since 2012 and is a certified court mediator. She told the Miami Herald Editorial Board that she has taken part in “10 to 12” bench trials and ...