Re: Brown removed

Bill,

I cannot see where you answered my question about what defines an indictment in Florida.

Was there an indictment hearing in the Dyer case? If so was that when the decision that the law was vague made 
at that stage or later?

Regards
Peter


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Highfield" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [CAT23-Achat] Brown removed


> Peter,
>
> As I said, Mayor Dyer was guilty as hell.  The law was ruled as "vague"
> late in the process, which it what leads me to believe that politics was
> involved.  First, a great many judges and lawyers in this state are
> still in their position from Gov Chiles tenure (meaning they're
> Democrats like Dyer).  Second, there's enough Republicans in their
> positions who had used the same "consultant" that Dyer used (meaning
> they, too, came very close to breaking that same law if not outright
> doing it).
>
> Thus, you have a rare instance where the politicians on both sides have
> a unified goal (cover thy asses) and bingo ... the law is ruled "vague",
> Dyer gets off the hook, and everything is ruled one great big mistake.
>
> Dyer has been a bit of a disappointment to the city, however.  Bill
> Fredrick (D) was a good mayor; then so was Glenda Hood (R) after him.
> Now Dyer's in there and he's managed to put the city back in the red,
> piss off the police department by not only rejecting their pay raise
> request (which he thought was excessive and I agreed) but went a bit
> overboard when he held up their end of year bonuses just before
> Christmas and made the further error of negotiating through media
> release (which won't win you any friends in the union).  Add in this
> trouble with the election and he may face a stiff challenge next time
> around.
>
> -- 
> Bill Highfield
> St Cloud, Florida, USA!
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