Monthly Archives: September 2010

No more drug farm

Joe Varjue won’t be on the 10th and 11th floor every weekday looking to save people addicted to drugs. It’s a sad day in Palm Beach county. The recidivism rate for graduates of drug farm is low, but Sheriff Bradshaw doesn’t care. Treatment is not part of his mission. If you took away drugs and [...]

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Jimmy Martz circuit judge

Gov Crist appointed county judge James Martz II yesterday to the circuit bench. He is replacing Judge Garrison’s spot. Grey Tesh is a board certified criminal trial lawyer in West Palm Beach, Florida and is Past-President of the Palm Beach association of criminal defense lawyers and has tried over 100 jury and non-jury trials from [...]

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Managing a criminal lawyer’s time

A lawyer’s time is his stock in trade. How valuable is that? You can’t get it back. Here’s a couple of things I do to manage my time more efficiently. Plan the day before Before I leave the office each day, I (usually, not always) plan for the next day. I write it down. What [...]

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PD in Missouri refusing appointments

“…Nothing more than the illusion of a lawyer.” one of the better quotes from the NY times article. Missouri has a state PD system like we do here in Florida. Here’s a scary quote: “Is someone in prison who might have been acquitted if we had had more resources?” Rod Hackathorn, the public defender for [...]

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