{"id":887,"date":"2023-01-20T18:39:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/?p=887"},"modified":"2023-01-20T18:52:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:52:37","slug":"federal-judge-quotes-me-in-desantis-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/federal-judge-quotes-me-in-desantis-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"FEDERAL JUDGE QUOTES ME IN DESANTIS RULING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The federal judge Robert Hinkle wrote of Andrew Warren:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Mr. Warren\u2019s well established policy, followed in every case by every prosecutor in the office, was to exercise prosecutorial discretion at every stage of every case.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I previously wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;Like all Florida prosecutors, Warren will use his discretion to find the most politically convenient path in each case regardless of what he promised and the law. And there is no Florida law that says Warren cannot choose what cases he wants to prosecute.&#8221;<\/p><cite>http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/florida-governor-creates-a-super-legislature-of-sheriffs\/<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Hinkle wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;So far as this record reflects, he was diligently and competently performing the job he was elected to perform, very much in the way he told voters he would perform it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I previously wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;Warren provided honest full disclosure of what he reasonably believed to be white-market actions, based on the fact it doesn\u2019t say anywhere in Florida law that he can\u2019t do this.&#8221;<\/p><cite>http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/florida-governor-creates-a-super-legislature-of-sheriffs\/<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;There is also no Florida law that he cannot freely choose how to communicate to voters what his policy will be.&#8221;<\/p><cite>http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/05\/florida-governor-again-attacks-speech\/<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Hinkle wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Any reasonable investigation would have confirmed this.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I previously wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;there is no formal process to oversee what he then chooses to do. It is really just the choice of the governor to remove him in a rare situation based on politics.&#8221;<\/p><cite>http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/florida-governor-creates-a-super-legislature-of-sheriffs\/<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;There is not even an office or a formal mechanism in the Florida executive branch, to compel reporting or monitor how prosecutors are actually using their discretion.&#8221;<\/p><cite>http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/05\/florida-governor-again-attacks-speech\/<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Hinkle said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Governor violated the First Amendment by considering Mr. Warren\u2019s speech on matters of public concern&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I previously said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;What Warren signed is just a campaign communication, it is not legally binding to prohibit him from choosing to prosecute specific future cases.&#8221;<\/p><p>&#8220;To the extent Warren\u2019s letter was not legally binding, it may even be an attack on Warren\u2019s First Amendment right to make campaign promises.&#8221;<\/p><cite>http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/florida-governor-creates-a-super-legislature-of-sheriffs\/<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;DeSantis removed Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren, for nothing more than a campaign communication which DeSantis wants to publicly take the other side of.&#8221;<\/p><p>&#8220;There is also no Florida law that he cannot freely choose how to communicate to voters what his policy will be.&#8221;<\/p><cite>http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/05\/florida-governor-again-attacks-speech\/<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I also included this in a request for oral argument in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;So ask Archer and the Florida Attorney General: Do you prosecute state witness perjury?&#8221;<\/p><cite>http:\/\/cops2prison.org\/archer_sprowls_reply_brief_6500_docket.pdf<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal judge Robert Hinkle wrote of Andrew Warren: &#8220;Mr. Warren\u2019s well established policy, followed in every case by every prosecutor in the office, was to exercise prosecutorial discretion at every stage of every case.&#8221; I previously wrote: &#8220;Like all &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/federal-judge-quotes-me-in-desantis-ruling\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FEDERAL JUDGE QUOTES ME IN DESANTIS RULING<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenmurrayokeechobee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}