A panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal said convicted killer Zachary Penna should receive a new trial because a deputy did not give Penna his Miranda rights before asking questions. Penna was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in Palm Beach County.
In a federal appeals court case freeing former Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, and a state appeals court case approving an arrest for filming Boynton Beach police officers, the less-experienced judges appointed by Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis made decisions on the wrong side of history and the law. In both cases, more experienced judges appointed by Bill Clinton and former Republican Gov. Bob Martinez dissented.
BOYNTON BEACH More than a decade after a Boynton Beach mother sued the city when police arrested her for filming them, a state appeals court has ruled against her.
City police in 2009 had the right to arrest Tasha Ford, the three-panel judge said Wednesday in a 2-1 ruling, for “obstruction” of their duties when she recorded them after they cuffed her son for sneaking into a movie theater. The judges’ decision upholds a Palm Beach County Circuit Court ruling.
Ford “failed to comply with the officers’ direction and requests,” Judges Melanie May and Edward Artau wrote. Officers had asked her to stop recording. “She obstructed their investigation and processing of her son’s detention.”