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25 Jun 2:30 pm
... introducing the drug analysis without live testimony of the chemist who conducted the analysis. Prior to Melendez-Diaz, prosecutors in
Massachusetts would prove that a substance was an illegal narcotics by introducing evidence of a drug certification ... on the affidavit from the Office of Alcohol Testing to establish
the periodic testing requirements. Given the Melendez-Diaz decision, that reliance on an affidavit to establish the periodic testing and
reliability of the machine could constitute a ...
17 Dec, 2007 9:00 pm
... issues that they think the Presidential candidates should be addressing. One of the first to participate is Manny Diaz, Mayor of
Miami-the-City. Not being a constituent, I don't follow Manny ... Diaz's first term in office draws to a close and he quietly raises funds for
his re-election campaign - a campaign in which he has yet ... than an organ of government. And so the prospect of four more years of Manny Diaz
is chilling. After all, chronicling the rise of competence never won anybody a Pulitzer. ...
13 Aug, 2008 8:26 pm
... . So even the most cynical incumbent usually agrees to a few of them. In the case of Mario Diaz-Balart, however, there's a lot of betting
that he'd get his clock cleaned ... could be bad. So it's not a surprise to read that not only has Mario Diaz-Balart refused Joe Garcia's
invitation to do a series of non-confrontational joint events (where he'd risk looking bad even by comparison), but that now "Diaz-Balart is
attempting to squirm out of his promise to attend a debate organized by Spanish network ...
30 Sep, 2008 5:00 am
... 's 25th Congressional District, conducted by nonpartisan Research 2000, shows Joe Garcia within 4 points of Republican opponent Mario Diaz-Balart. According to the poll, if the election were held today, Garcia would receive 41 percent of the vote, and Diaz- ... percent. Thirteen percent of voters remain undecided. More people have a favorable opinion of Joe Garcia, than they do of Mario Diaz Balart. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 5 percentage points. Being that far under 50% has to be ...
28 Jul, 2008 3:54 am
DIAZ V. BARKER AND ALLSTATE INS. CO. APPEALS: Notice SHALL be filed within 30 days 2006-CA-001198 PUBLISHED: AFFIRMING PANEL: VANMETER
PRESIDING; TAYLOR, KELLER CONCUR JEFFERSON COUNTY DATE RENDERED: 5/9/2008 Basic civil procedure here: CR 73.02(1)(a) mandates that a notice of appeal SHALL be filed within 30 days after
the date of notation of service of the judgment. COA disagreed with Plaintiff's argument that she had the option to wait to appeal until the resolution of claims against all ...
4 Nov, 2007 11:35 am
... we spoke with Rick Diaz, an accidental Supreme Court advocate if there ever was one. Diaz
represents Michael Williams, who is challenging the constitutionality of a federal child-pornography statute. He argued before the court last
week. (Click ... My practice heavily concentrates in criminal defense with a focus on the federal side. Tell us how you got this case. The defendant Michael Williams was a court security officer at the federal courthouse in Miami. We were friendly because we had a common ...
5 Nov, 2007 12:42 pm
"Law Blog Lawyer of the Day: Miamis Rick Diaz." At WSJ.com's "Law Blog," Peter Lattman has a post that begins, "We spend lots of time gawking
at the ... him or herself standing before the justices for the first time? Whats that like? Last week we spoke with Rick Diaz, an accidental
Supreme Court advocate if there ever was one. Diaz represents Michael Williams, who is challenging
the constitutionality of a federal child-pornography statute." The interview is quite interesting, although it fails to ...
13 Sep, 2007 10:45 am
... please rush up to the 39th floor -- and take your camera phone! Cameron Diaz is on the 39th floor of Cadwalader's New York office, using a
conference room for ... . Don't know what the movie is, do you? Might it be What Happens in Vegas, starring both Diaz and Kutcher, and
currently listed as "filming"? Rumor from the secretaries has it that Ashton [ ... . Are Biglaw partners even more cloistered than federal judges? It's no Michael Jackson sighting, but maybe you still care to know. Does that make CWT ...
8 Jul, 2008 4:11 am
... years. The poll, by Bendixen & Associates, shows Reps. Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart, Cuban-American brothers with a long Miami
political pedigree, are leading their ... race in South Florida." Here are the raw numbers: Joe Garcia 39% Mario Diaz-Balart 44% Now, I know
some of you may be wondering what all the fuss ... quick a break-down of these numbers to put things into perspective: 1. Diaz-Balart is in
serious trouble. In politics, there is a key figure that analysts look at when determining ...
8 Sep 11:25 pm
... then given the opportunity to call the chemist as an adverse witness with the cost of the summons, incurring to the State. The Melendez-Diaz decision suggested that States could enact law requires a defendant to assert the right of confrontation prior ... the Supreme Court, likely to be June
2010, there will be numerous decision from state courts applying Melendez-Diaz to the admissibility of breathalyzer evidence. The Briscoe
decision is likely to shape the method by which states enact notice and ...
14 Jul, 2008 8:46 pm
... Senator Bill Nelson in 2006. Bush won there in 2004 with 54%- as opposed to 57% in Lincoln Diaz-Balart's 21st CD (PVI- R+6) and to 56% in
Mario Diaz-Balart ... them elected over and over, Ros-Lehtinen though voting almost exactly the way the Diaz-Balarts vote (for the war, for illegal wiretaps, against children's health care, for ... moderate and she isn't an independent. She's no less extreme
than the Diaz-Balarts- and that is extreme. Recent polling by Lake Research, the most respected Beltway polling ...
26 Sep, 2008 5:00 am
... Joe's first and most effective effort, "one-trick pony". The production values on the Diaz-Ballart ad are better, as you'd expect given his
is designed for TV while the ... most voters do, this will look weak. And, indeed, Channel 10 totally debunked Mario Diaz-Balart's ad: As
Garcia himself said in a recent email blast: While serving on ... $1 Billion and forced FP&L to share excessive profits with consumers. Diaz-Balart is scared of my record of fighting for consumers so he is trying to lie his way ...
16 Jul, 2008 4:46 pm
... Garcia isn't the only local Democrat who had a good fundraising quarter. And Mario Diaz-Balart isn't the only local Republican who had a
very bad quarter. It's ... her campaign $350,000 to date, including $170,000 this quarter. District 21 Lincoln Diaz-Balart - R Net
Contributions for the quarter: $324,215 Net Contributions for election cycle: $ ... : $1,217,195 Cash on hand: $1,079,068 District 25 Mario Diaz-Balart - R Net Contributions for the quarter: $234,320 Net Contributions for election cycle: $ ...
10 Oct, 2008 5:00 am
... creates a web site to celebrate GW Bush's stealth visit to the area. The website is called Bush-Balart Polls are looking better and better for Joe Garcia. FL - 21 Dems attack
Diaz-Balart, look to tie him to indicted PR pol (it's Raul's Diaz-Balart, not Joe's). Cf. LINCON
DIAZ BALART ACUSADO POR SENADOR EN PUERTO RICO DE RECIVIR MALETIN CON DINERO I hear Raul Martinez's polls look even better than Joe Garcia's…
27 Sep 3:02 pm
... far, so good. But then the Herald chickens out in paragraph six. The congressmen for the two cities - Republican Lincoln Diaz-Balart for
Hialeah and Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz for Weston - agree reform is needed, but have completely different ... others) think should be done…until paragraphs 23-26, the final
graphs of the article: In an e-mail to The Miami Herald, Diaz-Balart wrote that something needed to be done, in particular to help small
businesses. He proposes allowing them to "to pool ...
10 Feb, 2008 1:34 pm
... Meanwhile, good things are happening in neighboring districts: local political operative and popular long-time Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez is challenging Lincoln Diaz-Balart in the 21st. Even better, local Democratic star Joe Garcia announced he's running in District 25 against Mario Diaz-Balart. (Official Joe Garcia for Congress web site.) Here's a piece of the TV coverage: We're in for interesting times, a taste of which can be ...
23 Apr, 2008 10:00 pm
This is really good. Will it work? YouTube - Diaz-Balart a One-Trick Pony Is there a Spanish version?
25 May, 2008 3:45 pm
... are trying to avoid debating their challengers: Miami-Dade Dems: Debate? Republicans run and hide. Joe Garcia, challenging Mario Diaz-Balart for District 25, said in a statement Wednesday that his opponent had backed out of a commitment to debate. "This is an act of political cowardice.
If Mario Diaz-Balart had time to vote to underfund our schools, three times against children's healthcare and against medical benefits for
veterans, then he ...
12 Jul, 2008 7:52 pm
... visit their families still trapped in Cuba. The result is a breakage of the monolithic support for the GOP and for its candidates. Particularly hurt are the Diaz-Balart brothers, who suffer from poor constituent services and a failure to bring home the kind of bacon that their ... - did. Although Rieff doesn't
address this directly, it turns out that Joe Garcia's vicious mockery of the Diaz-Balarts as a "one trick pony" may be right on the mark.
Rieff's piece contains another bit of wisdom. Miami' ...
16 Jul, 2008 4:09 am
Joe Garcia's campaign just sent out an email about their fundraising - and they have something to brag about. We beat Mario Diaz-Balart, a
three-term Republican career politician, this quarter by over $100,000. The totals: Joe Garcia - $513,000 Mario Diaz-Balart - $392,000 Here's
the best part: we beat our opponent's individual contributions by over $300,000. Want to help? They're asking you to volunteer. I'm helping out - details about that tomorrowThursday.
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