Private lawyers accelerate the capital of law in cases
Your February 10 regarding the case editorial Holton, and my proposal to exchange the capital postconviction legal services was both inaccurate and unfair.
First, Rudolph Holton was not “free”. Instead, 16 years after the rape and brutal murder of Katrina Graddy, a new procedure (no charges dismissal) was commissioned. The prosecutor then has a fair and equitable process was impossible because of long delays and that the certificate was the key for the first time, then recanted reaffirmed. However, a pragmatic decision, not the perpetrators, does not mean Holton was to determine objectively innocent. It has not been relieved, but simply released.
In addition, our state, the use of private lawyers to provide legal services postconviction capital has been since 1998. According to the Commission on Capital Cases, private lawyers in only 32 cases recorded as a capital of more than $ 6 million in public funds and reduce delays of 131 years between 1998 and 2000. The communication from the Director General said that private lawyers may represent the death of each detainee cell. Private lawyers defending criminal in our country, wishing to ethical representation of their clients in thousands of cases. I object to your implication, that lawyers from Florida is a little less in the capital.
Our policy on the territory of the capital cases it is based on two fundamental principles. First, I believe, all murderers sentenced to death must be associated professional, ethical and competent legal representation. The commitment did not crack. Secondly, I believe death sentences can and should be resolved within five years, not 15-20 years. Nobody, not convicted murderers, not public opinion, much less murder victims, is unacceptable by the delays of justice, which are an insult to our courts and laws.
Your newspaper, and I share an important objective: justice must be served immediately. Justice is denied if, to connect all cases are in our courts for decades. My proposal to outsource legal services aim to achieve this goal and continue to Florida, in the tradition of the provision in case of representation-hungry capital.
– Jeb Bush, Governor, Tallahassee
Amendment stupidity
Re: slightly amended Constitution, 2 lawmakers say, Feb 13
Senator Anna Cowin and Rep. Mike Hogan propose state constitution harder to change, the changes happening with a majority of votes and a majority of counties. Such a proposal plays directly into the hands of those who decide against future reforms could ignore the 93 percent of voters State (based on 2000 census data) to the expression of opposition to Florida’s 34 districts less populated.
Your explanatory statement that “protecting the interests of voters in smaller, rural districts,” harkens back to the bad old days “one person, one vote” rule, if the legislature malapportioned state abetted the interests of domination rural areas of a city the majority.
Hogan’s Rep. further justification - Amending the Federal Constitution process - ignore the political history of the nation. The U.S. Constitution was to create by hand a union of sovereign states, and ratification requirements reflect interest. By way of comparison, Florida is not a union of states, but districts are creatures of the state.
If Floridians are concerned about the effects of direct democracy, they should consider other options. The Constitution can be amended for a three-fifths or two-thirds majority for future amendments to allow or referendums, citizens of force, subject to the statutes and the legislative power. And though Sen. Cowin and Rep. Hogan May like the idea of redistricting Floridians might not create a wide gap between the political upheavals of state and legislative power. Each of these solutions would be respect for the Constitution of Florida important maxim: “All political power is a characteristic of man” - people, not the counties.
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