Judges in 19 states and the District of Columbia are issuing orders to keep guns out of the hands of people deemed dangerous, like a Fort Lauderdale teenager who threatened a school shooting.
Broward magistrate Yves Laventure worked for two months with an inactive law license, presiding over dozens of cases involving people whose family members were challenging their ability to make their own decisions because of mental health or substance abuse issues.
Broward Circuit Judge Linda Alley, who took office two years ago after a 22-year career as a malpractice lawyer for some of Broward County’s most prominent firms, died Wednesday at a Fort Lauderdale hospital. She was 71.
Assigned to the bench in 2012, Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer generally kept a low profile before she found herself overseeing one of the most prominent cases in the country the Parkland school shootings.
One of the public defenders involved in the Parkland trial is the subject of a Florida Bar investigation over complaints she made an obscene gesture in court, and rightly so. The Judicial Qualifications Commission ought to carry ought a similar investigation into Judge Elizabeth Scherer's treatment of public defenders.